100 Bullets to Showtime Under David Goyer

Writer David S. Goyer is taking on yet another comic book to adapt to live action. Showtime is looking to develop a show out of the Eisner and Harvey Award winning comic, 100 Bullets, with Goyer attached to both write and executive produce says Deadline. The book was written by Brian Azzarello and went on for 100 issues between 1999 and 2009.

100 Bullets isn’t the typical comic book with superheroes or anything fantastical. It’s a straight up noir-style story, adding a dark realism to stories of moral ambiguity. The story presents the question of whether people would take the chance to get revenge if they had it. They character Graves starts off the story by giving people who have been wronged a handgun with 100 untraceable bullets and the documentation of the person who hurt them. Graves ultimate goal is to take down the organization known as “The Thrust”. Azzarello’s style of writing paid close attention to local accents and slang, adding another layer to the realism he wanted to create.

It could be argued that Goyer is the man you want for adapting comic books for the big and small screens. He wrote all three Blade movies, but his claim to fame is Batman Begins, the gritty Christopher Nolan reboot of the Batman franchise. Since doing Begins, Goyer wrote the stories for The Dark Knight, the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises, and wrote the script for the Zack Snyder directed Man of Steel. With a history like this, who better to write this dark tale?