Warren Ellis’ ‘Global Frequency’ getting TV adaptation from FOX

DOPE NEWS: Warren Ellis’ fucking excellent Global Frequency is getting a (really another) TV adaptation on Fox SORT OF EH NEWS: It is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

AV Club:

DC Comics has been having a lot of luck getting its superheroic properties onto TV screens of late. At present, the comics giant—working with its owners at Warner Bros.—has four live-action shows on the air: Arrow, Gotham, The Flash, andConstantine, along with an animated Teen Titans series on Cartoon Network. It’s the kind of success that might make a publisher think it’s capable of doing anything, which could explain why DC is taking its third run in a decade at transforming Warren Ellis’ genre-shifting cult series Global Frequency into a successful TV show.

This latest effort is being spearheaded by producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who secured a pilot production commitment from Fox for the new series. Rockne S. O’Bannon, creator of Farscape and SyFy’s Defiance, will handle writing duties on the pilot, an adaptation of Ellis’ tale of globalized smart mobs being activated to combat paranormal, extraterrestrial, and man-made threats to the safety of the world.

First published under DC’s WildStorm imprint in 2002, the comic centered on The Global Frequency, an international collection of experts from every walk of life. Scientists, adventurers, diplomats, thieves, assassins, athletes, cops, and more were brought together by mysterious superspy Miranda Zero to pool their talents and save the world from government experiments gone awry. The Frequency’s 1,001 members collaborated via high-tech cellphones that acted as handheld computers, allowing them to communicate with each other—and Zero’s right-hand dispatcher Aleph, one of only two recurring regular characters in the series—from around the world. (In author Warren Ellis’ defense, this idea was a lot more revolutionary and high-tech-sounding when the comic was first published, five years before the debut of the iPhone.)

I’m going to choose to keep my PMA and be STOKED for this. Lord Ellis deserves the riches (will he get a cut from this?) and perhaps Jerry Bruckheimer  producing means it’ll feel FUCKING EPIC. Thoughts?