Hack/Slash Heading For Television

Tim Seeley’s acclaimed horror comic book series Hack/Slash is finally getting an adaptation.

However, the recent breakup of Relativity Media and its former television division appears to have given Hack/Slash a few new life.

The story of Hack/Slash follows Cassie Heck, the girl who survives at the end of every horror movie (aka a “Final Girl”). Cassie Hack, a teenager that survived a serial killer’s murder spree chooses to use her experience as inspiration to hunt down nightmarish killers that prey upon the innocent.

The latest project moving out of movie development hell and into TV purgatory is an adaptation of the independent comic Hack/Slash, with a pilot script being written by screenwriter Skip Woods (Hitman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine).

When it was set up as a feature, it had directors such as Marcus Nispel, Fredrik Bond and Todd Lincoln attached, with Justin Marks and Stephen Susco among the writers. The comic was originally optioned back in 2005 by Adrian Askarieh who will executive produce along with Woods and Ray Ricord. Still, it’s a format that will doubtless work well in a small screen episodic format, although given how tongue-in-cheek the comic tends to be it is a little worrying to see THR’s report claim that the show’s producers at Relativity Television are aiming to make it “dark and gritty”, Walking Dead style.

Daniel Alter and Geoffrey Yim are co-exec producers. The monsters/killers she encounters are in the vein of classic Hollywood slashers, like Halloween’s Michael Myers, Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees and A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger.