Dexter exec producer to bring Exterminators from comic book page to Showtime screen
Sara Colleton, one of the exec producers behind uber-successful Showtime series Dexter, is slated to bring the network a screen adaptation of the comic The Exterminators.
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The Hollywood Reporter has it that Colleton, pictured at left with fellow execs Bob Greenblatt and Clyde Phillips and Dexter star Michael C. Hall, will helm the drama based on a Vertigo/DC Comics franchise.
The comic centers on the main character, an ex-con named Henry James, and his adventures when he joins an extermination company only to find that the insects are way more dangerous than they first appear.
The comic’s writer originally conceived of the idea as a TV pitch but found it wasn’t Big Three network material, so it’s fitting that it’ll now find a home on a pay cable station. What’s more, creator Simon Oliver has said with The Exterminators he set out to create a story that was to the extermination business what HBO’s Six Feet Under was to funeral parlors. Guess who exec produced Six Feet Under? That’s right, Bob Greenblatt — the guy who now happens to be VP of entertainment at Showtime.
For more about The Exterminators, check out this interview with Oliver in which he explains how he researched the story and developed the plot. “I throw a pretty wide net so it’s a lot of fun to try and weave it all together,” he told CBR News.
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