What happens when you bring Bayhem to the box? It looks like we might be about to find out, folks. According to Deadline, the Bad Boys and Ambulance blockbuster filmmaker is circling the directorial hotseat on Barbaric, a new Netflix series based on Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden's best-selling Vault comic series. What's more, Peaky Blinders star Sam Claflin and Picard himself, Sir Patrick Stewart, are attached to star in the show.
Up In The Air scribe Sheldon Turner is aboard to write the series, tantalisingly described by Deadline as "Deadpool meets Game Of Thrones" thanks to its killer combo of ultra violence and wicked humour. Set in a Medieval fantasy world, Moreci and Gooden's comics follow the adventures of cursed Barbarian Owen and his sentient alcoholic weapon Axe as they wander their magical realm, impelled to help the needy (usually in the most bloodthirsty way possible). If Netflix press on with developing the series, Claflin will be taking on the role and fur ruff of Owen, whilst Stewart will lend his vocal gravitas to the sharp-toothed and -tongued Axe.
Should Bay take up the helm and bring Barbaric to life for Netflix, it would be the veteran director's first TV project. And whilst the show isn't a 100% sure thing at this stage (such is the nature of the streaming age beast), the prospect of the action legend — who previously collaborated with the streamer on 6 Underground — bringing his kinetic brand of cinematic spectacle to the small screen is an exciting one. We'll bring you more on Barbaric as soon as we hear it, but in the meantime, we're off to make our own 'Deadpool meets Game Of Thrones' by planning a House Of The Dragon and Deadpool & Wolverine. Snikt! Snikt! Dracarys!