Glasgae comics legend Grant Morrison has inked a big deal with Universael Cabaele Productaens (we will stop now) this week to develop new content for the studio, according to Variety, and part of that deal includes bringing his iconic long-running comic The Invisibles to TV.
Morrison is currently a producer on Happy! for UCP, based on his own book with Darick Robertson, and he’s made quite the success of it, which means The Invisibles could finally materialise on the small screen. The comic is set in 2020, which’ll make the new TV project pretty damn timely, as we’re unlikely to see it premiere until then.
The Invisibles launched on Vertigo back in 1994, and follows a cell of ‘The Invisible College’, a secret group that battles oppression using time travel, magic, meditation, and good old fashioned ultraviolence, which ticks a lot of boxes on our list of things we want in a TV show. There was some interest in developing The Invisibles for TV from BBC Scotland years ago, but nothing ever came of it. You snooze, you lose, BBC Scotland!
Morrison is indeed a busy man. Along with Happy! and The Invisibles, he’s also adapting Aldous Huxley’s classic tome Brave New World at UCP.
More on this as we get it.