Scarlet Is Being Adapted For TV

 

Brian Michael Bendis’ comic series Scarlet is being eyed for adaptation by Cinemax. The writer let slip plans for a TV adaptation while at the ATX Television Festival today, saying: “I do a book called Scarlet which is soon to be announced that’s also in our universe of television. Not announced yet, but HBO… the team around it… will be announcing as soon as all are on the same page”

Cinemax seems a promising home for a property that even Bendis says is a tough sell, he said “Scarlet is a list of things you can’t get made. Here’s a female lead who’s killing cops because her world is broken but when it was sold it was sold to people who were actively looking for that, so that put us in a good place. So stay tuned”

For the uninitiated, the comic revolves around a young woman named Scarlet Rue often compared to The Punisher who refuses to take any more injustice and kickstarts a modern revolution.