Walking Dead Producers Adapting Chew For TV Too
Want to get your comics series onto TV? Put some corpses and some flesh eating in it. That seems to be the pattern here. Or, you know, you could just make sure it’s pretty good. That’s the other pattern.
Chew is going to be the next strip-to-screen adaptation from Circle of Confusion, the production company behind AMC’s The Walking Dead series. There’s no writer contracted yet, but Stephen Hopkins has signed on to executive produce and direct. Deadline got the scoop.
Rich (prophetically?) described the comic like this:
About a police detective who experiences psychic visions of everything he ingests (including the corpses of murder victims), it felt like one of those American TV cop shows about a detective with a special skill bordering on a super power that helps them defeat crime – see Lie To Me, Due South, Monk, and the upcoming Human Target.
It seems hardly fair that The Walking Dead should get Frank Darabont – The Mist, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption – and Chew should get Hopkins – The Reaping, Predator 2, Blown Away, Lost in Space.
Back in January, Layman gave his perfect cast for a Chew adaptation – Ken Leung and Felicia Day. Here they are, for those of us better with faces than names.

Circle of Confusion also have a version of Brian Micheal Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming’s Powers in the works at FX.