Fox Adapting Lisa Joy’s Graphic Novel ‘Headache’ For Television

Fox has picked up the rights to Athena, a drama based on the graphic novel Headache by writer Lisa Joy (Pushing Daisies), with plans to develop it as an hour long drama for the small screen. The graphic novel is described as:

This gripping coming-of-age tale of an 18-year-old girl who happens to be Athena. In Athena’s life, there’s no such thing as hyperbole. Her “evil” stepmother? Hera, who’s actually evil and out to kill her. The bad boy she falls in love with? Hades, king of the underworld. The philandering father whose approval she always seeks and fails to attain? Zeus the ultimate deadbeat dad. And now she must take on all of the gods in order to stop them from destroying mankind.

Deadline states that the show will consist of a storyline in which “each week she must maintain her secret identity while battling a slew of ancient monsters from Greek mythology and searching to uncover which of the other Greek gods is secretly plotting against her to take over the Earth”. Joy will write and executive produce the hour long project alongside Peter Chernin (Rise of The Planet Of The Apes) and Katherine Pope (New Girl).