EXCLUSIVE: eOne is developing a TV series based on the Paranormal Hitmen comic books from writer Brett Murphy and illustrator Wilson Gandolpho.Billed as Ghostbusters meets Pulp Fiction, Paranormal Hitmen is an irreverent action-comedy that follows Gene Rizzo and Devon Grace, two mob hitmen whose lives are turned upside down when they’re accidentally recruited into a secret government agency tasked with hunting down paranormal threats.
These low-down criminals then face threats from the living AND the dead—determined to control the world of the paranormal, while literally confronting ghosts of their pasts.The first edition of Paranormal Hitmen was released by Behemoth Books (the company recently acquired by Sumerian Records and Films) in January.
eOne will produce the series under the late Hasbro executive Brian Goldner’s Altar Rock label, with Goldner and Josh Feldman exec producing alongside Murphy and Gandolpho.Murphy is a comic book writer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who stormed onto the scene with his well-received first series, Paranormal Hitmen, and is currently writing multiple projects, including licensed work for Behemoth Comics.
Gandolpho is an up-and-coming Brazilian artist with a passion for creating new, unique characters, whose work on Paranormal Hitmen was a hit with readers in the U.S.
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