Warren Ellis has confirmed in his Badsignal mass e-mail that the WB television network has indeed optioned his DC/Wildstorm comic book series Global Frequency. John Rogers is writing the script for a pilot episode and Ellis is on board as a consultant and producer. If the series is picked up, Ellis will get to write at least one episode. Global Frequency, which chronicles the exploits of an international semi-covert rescue squad dealing with the 'black' projects and mad science associated with the dark side of twentieth century cold war operations, has some of the conspiratorial elements of the X-Files, and could appeal to the same audience that made that series a major long-running hit. According to Ellis, the WB has commissioned a pilot episode, but as he points out in his Badsignal e-mail, 'there are no guarantees that the job will make it to the screen. Even pilots are not always aired.'
Orders Pilot for Warren Ellis Comic Book Series
Posted by ICv2 on October 27, 2003 @ 11:00 pm CT