WGN America Developing A Series Based On Vertigo’s ‘Scalped’

Briefly: Another comic book is headed to the small screen.

THR has learned that Jason Aaron and R.M. Guerra’s Vertigo series Scalped is in development at WGN America. Banshee‘s Doug Jung will executive produce and write the pilot’s script.

The book’s synopsis states that Scalped is “an intense crime drama that mixes organized crime with current Native Americanculture. Fifteen years ago, Dashiell “Dash” Bad Horse ran away from a life of abjectpoverty and utter hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation inhopes of finding something better. Now he’s come back home armed withnothing but a set of nunchucks, a hell-bent-for-leather attitude and onedark secret, to find nothing much has changed on “The Rez” — short of aglimmering new casino, and a once-proud people overcome by drugs andorganized crime. Is he here to set things right or just get a piece of the action?” The series is in part inspired by Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who killed two FBI agents in a 1975 reservation shootout.

Are you a fan of the book? It certainly sounds like darker subject matter than we typically see in comic book TV. Would you watch the series? Sound out below!