Fresh from the triumph that was Captain America: Civil War, Anthony and Joe Russo are turning their attentions to a radically different comic-book property. According to Deadline, the brothers are adapting Deadly Class for TV.
The Image Comics series has a Kingsman-style premise. Jaded teenager Marcus Lopez Arguello enters a counter-cultural ‘80s world of violence when he’s recruited into a high-school for assassins. Along the way his values, principles and endurance are tested to the maximum among all the usual cliques and bullies. Cigarettes are smoked, girls flirted with, people get impaled. You know, just your usual high-school stuff.
Rick Remender and Miles Feldsott, who created Deadly Class in 2014 and co-write it, are working with the Russos to bring together the adaptation for Sony Pictures TV. A distribution deal should be negotiated soon, via a cable or streaming service.
Whether the Russo brothers have a hand in the episodes is yet to be seen. They’ve also got the small matter of two Avengers: Infinity War movies to make.