Comic book writer Ed Brubaker has sold TV projects to both Fox and NBC. Fox is developing Rising Sons, a stylized thriller about a midlevel American yakuza operative who gets involved with the female FBI operative who is hunting him. Brubaker is writing the pilot and working with Executive Producer Kyle Killen, who also has the workplace drama Influence in the works at ABC.

 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brubaker’s as-yet-untitled espionage drama, which is set up with Universal Television, focuses on a female agent-in-training who works on a “clean-up crew” that shadows a famous agent removing all traces of his operations. Brubaker is writing a draft for the pilot of this series as well and working on developing the project with producers Peter Traugott and Rachel Kaplan.

 

Brubaker’s Coward (the title of the first collection of his Marvel Icon Criminal comic book series) is currently in development with Jamie Patricof and Lynette Howell producing and David Slade directing (see “Coward Movie”).

 

While this TV work may be behind Brubaker’s decision to stop writing for Marvel (see “Brubaker Leaving Winter Soldier”), it doesn’t mean that he is forsaking comics altogether. Not only has he left a door open at Marvel, he is still writing Fatale for Image and reportedly has another creator-owned series set for 2013.