Syfy is looking to capitalise on the comic book craze, with the network snapping up the rights to Frank Miller’s DC Comics limited series Ronin, as well as Oni Press’ ongoing political space drama Letter 44, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.
The network is currently searching for a writer for Ronin, with the site reporting that the miniseries will “take place eight centuries after a Japanese Ronin samurai failed to protect his master from a demon. He awakens in a futuristic, nihilistic New York in the body of Billy, a medical experiment. Now Billy/Ronin is chasing the demon, which has reawakened. Both parties want control of a sword with magical properties and will stop at nothing to get it back.”
Letter 44 is being eyed as an ongoing drama series, with Eric Gitter (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), Peter Schwerin (The Flock) and Rene Echevarria (Terra Nova) executive producing and Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) writing and directing the pilot. Based upon Charles Soule’s monthly series, Letter 44 “revolves around Stephen Blades, the new president of the U.S. who learns, via a letter from his predecessor, that seven years earlier, NASA discovered an alien construction project in the asteroid belt. A crew of heroic astronauts was sent to investigate and they’re nearing the conclusion of their epic journey.”
