Brooklyn Animal Control Brings Werewolves to Brooklyn

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    If you see a lot of hairy faces around Brooklyn in the next year or so, it could be another freestyle beard-growing competition. Or it could be werewolves.

    According to Variety, USA Networks has ordered a TV pilot for a series based on the comic book “Brooklyn Animal Control,” created by JT Petty and Stephen Thompson. The comic follows a secret NYPD unit charged with policing Brooklyn’s werewolf population.

    As Cindy Adams would say, only in New York, kids. Only in New York.

    Much as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” served as a metaphor for the problems teenagers face as they grow into adults, “Brooklyn Animal Control” delves into the real-life challenges faced by New York institutions: the politics of law enforcement, organized crime families, and an immigrant community trying to find their way in Brooklyn’s melting pot. (While, presumably, eating people.)

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    Comics and graphic novels—even those without caped crusaders—have become to Hollywood what stand-up was in the ’80s, an inexpensive idea factory that makes it easier for producers to sell new projects. “The Walking Dead,” for example, started as a critically acclaimed comic series before it was a cash cow for AMC. Ditto such non-superhero films as “Road to Perdition,” “A History of Violence,” “Hellboy,” and “30 Days of Night.”

    No word yet on casting, or whether it will be shooting in Brooklyn. The executive producers include “Batman v Superman” writer David Goyer, David Alpert and Rick Jacobs of Circle of Confusion (the production company behind “The Walking Dead”), and David Ozer and Ted Adams of IDW Entertainment, the adaptation arm of comic book publisher IDW Publishing.

    Brooklyn cops, crime lords, and werewolves? It all looks pretty cool to us. Expect to see some posts about werewolves in our wildly popular Brownstoner Pets feature!

    Images by IDW Publishing

     

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