According to Showtime, they have purchased a screenplay by Terri Hughes Burton and Ron Milbauer, adapting Image Comics' (repulsive) Eisner Award winning 'cannibal' comic book series "Chew", by writer John Layman and illustrator Rob Guillory, for a live-action, 30-minute, comedic TV adaptation.This follows reports from July 2010, that production company Circle of Confusion, noted for AMC's "The Walking Dead" TV series, was planning to adapt "Chew".
Stephen Hopkins ("Predator 2") is attached to direct and executive produce "Chew".
"...Set in a world where all chicken and other bird meats are illegal, after a catastrophic outbreak of bird flu that kills 23 million Americans, 'Chew' focuses on 'Tony Chu', a police detective who becomes a vice cop with the Philadelphia Police Department. On assignment, trying to find people smuggling chicken, he enters a black market chicken restaurant on invitation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
"Chu has a bowl of chicken soup only to find he gets a psychic impression of the cook killing people and then putting them into the soup. He goes to bust the cook, only for the cook to kill himself outside the restaurant. Chu then eats the cook to find out the names of the rest of the victims..."
"Chew Vol. 1 Taster's Choice" and "Chew Vol. 2 International Flavor" have both been on the New York Times Bestsellers List.Click the images to enlarge...
