Carlton Cuse Is Turning Oni Press’ Comic, The Sixth Gun, Into A TV Show

Comics are a hot commodity these days and it seems Oni Press (the ones who brought you Scott Pilgrim) are the most recent beneficiary. Their comic book The Sixth Gun, by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt, is getting its own television show on NBC thanks to Lost’s Carlton Cuse! 

“The project, which is being produced by Universal TV and Oni’s production company Closed on Mondays Entertainment, is the story of six mythical guns in the Old West. When the Sixth Gun, the most powerful and dangerous of the group, resurfaces in the hands of an innocent girl named Becky Montcrief, dark forces reawaken,” writes the Hollywood Reporter. “The project marks the first network sale for Closed on Mondays and Oni Press under their new multi-year deal with Universal Television.”

Bunn and Hurtt already have their previous Oni comic, The Damned, in development at Showtime so they must be pretty excited. Meanwhile, Cuse is busy with the Psycho prequel, Bates Motel and co-writing Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain for FX.

So are you a fan of the comic? What are your thoughts about it heading to the small screen?

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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