Deadline is reporting that NBC Universal International Studios has optioned the rights to Image’s comic book series Trees from bestselling writer Warren Ellis (Red) and artist Jason Howard, with Tom Hardy’s production company Hardy Son & Baker set to develop a TV adaptation.
Launching in 2014, Trees “is set 10 years after the arrival of vast alien presences who stand on the earth’s surface like… trees. They do not move or communicate and appear not to acknowledge human life and society. The series follows the silent pressure and strange changes they exert on global communities from China to the Arctic Circle. Like the comics, the drama will combine sci-fi, crime and relationships.”
In addition to Trees, NBC and Hardy Son & Baker have also picked up the rights to author Adam Hamdy’s upcoming crime thriller Pendulum, which is described as “a high-concept thriller about the nature of our digitally connected society [and] focuses on an everyman who is targeted for death by a serial killer, setting off a twisting, dangerous journey through a digital underworld.”
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Originally published September 27, 2016. Updated April 14, 2018.
