We’ve seen a few attempts at bringing the Wild Card series of novels to TV and film over the years, it looks like things are finally inching closer to reality. Universal Cable Prods. is setting up the project with Hulu where, after some success with Marvels Runaways, they’re looking at two series to produce. Both series are being written by Andrew Miller where he’ll serve as an executive producer as well. Miller had a single-season run on The Secret Circle a few years ago that had a lot of potential on The CW.
Edited by George R.R. Martin, who will not be involved due to his deal with HBO regarding Game of Thrones, the novel series began in 1987 and has twenty-seven volumes in print so far and has an extensive list of contributors to them.
Property Concept: Set in the present, the series explores the aftermath of an alien virus, released over Manhattan in 1946 that killed 90% of those it infected. In the survivors, DNA was altered, creating grotesque physical deformities, except for a tiny percentage who develop super human powers instead. Called the Wild Card virus, it has passed down through generations, and can go undetected until suddenly activated by a traumatic event — at which point the carrier is either killed, mutated or granted god-like powers. Effects that are largely a manifestation of the victim’s emotional state, making them vulnerable to reverence or ridicule on a deeply personal level. Now, after decades of sociological turmoil, having been worshipped, oppressed, exploited and ignored… Victims of the virus want to define their own future.
[Source: Deadline]
