Amazon is continuing to dig into a range of different genre properties to bring to its service and they’re coming up with some neat properties. While the sprawling and expensive Lord of the Rings is going to get a lot of attention it looks like they’re digging into the comic realm as well with Jonathan Hickman in particular. One of my favorite comic creators of the last few years, Amazon Studios has now put two books of his into development as hourlong dramas with East of West and Transhuman. East of West has him serving as an executive producer along with Nick Dragotta while Transhuman has J.M. Ringuet, the respective artists on the original works. It looks like Hickman will write East of West while Transhuman is looking for a writer for that.
“Nick, J.M. and I couldn’t be more excited to be working with Skybound and Amazon,” said Hickman. “We feel very strongly about each project and couldn’t be more appreciative of how far both companies have gone to make us feel welcome. We look forward to doing the work and hopefully doing it well.”
East of West: The story is set in a reimagined Western landscape where America is divided into seven nations. This iconic science fiction series follows “Death” as he braves his fellow riders, monsters, and corrupt gunslingers in his quest to save his mortal family from the Apocalypse.
Transhuman: Set in the near future, the story centers around a divorced couple, who ran rival major corporations, offering humans the ability to genetically and robotically enhance themselves.
