Emmy and Golden Globe-award winning actor Michael Chiklis (The Shield, The Fantastic Four) has signed a deal with IDW Publishing to develop a graphic novel series, Olympus, based on an original idea by Anny Simon Beck.  Chiklis will develop the project via his shingle, Extravaganza Productions with the purpose of expanding the property to other media including film, TV, and games with Chiklis essaying the role of Zeus in this saga of the Greek Gods returning to a ravaged contemporary world where they battle the Titans for the future of mankind.

Chiklis, a third generation Greek-American, notes that as a child the Greek Gods were very real to him, so the opportunity to play Zeus was irresistible.  In Olympus the key gods of the Greek Pantheon break the golden rule of Greek mythology by revealing themselves to humanity as they engage in an epic battle of good vs. evil with the Titans.