Prime Video’s latest series order is for a show called Sex Criminals — but it’s not venturing into Law & Order: SVU territory.
The Amazon-owned streamer has picked up an eight-episode show based on the acclaimed Image Comics title Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick) and Tze Chun (Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai) are co-creators of the series, and Nanjiani is also set for an acting role.
Sex Criminals centers on Suze, “a normal girl with an extraordinary ability: when she has sex, she stops time,” the show’s logline reads. “One night, she meets Jon, who has the same gift. And so they do what any other sex-having, time-stopping couple would do: They rob banks.”
Nanjiani and Gordon will executive produce the show via their Winter Coat Films. Chun also exec produces, as do Winter Coat’s Dani Melia, Dani Gorin of LuckyChap, Fraction and Zdarsky. LuckyChap’s Louie Hayes produces.
“Sex Criminals is the exact kind of thing Winter Coat aims to bring to life: love stories in weird places,” said Gordon and Nanjiani. “From the moment LuckyChap brought us Matt and Chip’s comic book, we knew we wanted to bring these characters to screen and are so excited to do that alongside Tze Chun and Prime Video.”
Added Chun, “I’ve been a fan of Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s Sex Criminals since the first issue hit the stands. This has been my dream project for over a decade, and co-creating this show with Emily and Kumail has been one of the creative highlights of my career. We are so excited to bring this series to life with our incredible partners at Lucky Chap and Prime Video.”
Sex Criminals was first published in 2013 to critical acclaim and earned two Eisner Award nominations. Fraction and his wife and fellow comic writer, Kelly Sue DeConnick, previously had an adaptation of the comic in development at Universal Television in the mid-2010s, but the project didn’t move forward.
“Sex Criminals is bold, hilarious, and wildly original, with a love story at its core that feels both deeply human and completely unexpected,” said Peter Friedlander, global head of television at Amazon MGM Studios. “Emily, Kumail, and Tze have brought a fresh, and emotionally grounded take to this incredible property. With our collaborators at LuckyChap, Winter Coat Films, and comic book creators Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky, we’re thrilled to bring this unforgettable world and its characters to our global Prime Video audience.”
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