In case you missed it among the other big Brian Michael Bendis-centric news of the day, Variety reported early Friday morning that Melissa Rosenberg, the screenwriter who adapted all of the Twilight movies for film, is developing a TV series version of Alias for ABC — titled “AKA Jessica Jones” — with an aim towards getting in on the schedule for fall 2011.
ABC, ABC Studios and Marvel all declined comment on the story, but Variety noted that things are close enough to a deal that it’ll likely beat the Guillermo Del Toro/David Eick-helmed Hulk series, details of which surfaced last month, as the first “official” Marvel Television project for ABC. Alias was one of the list of possible ABC adaptations that was reported back in October. (Marvel and ABC, of course, are both owned by Disney.)
Written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Michael Gaydos, Alias debuted in 2001, and kicked off Marvel’s mature readers line, MAX. The name change is due to, duh, the fact that there was a pretty popular show on ABC called Alias rather recently. The series starred former superhero Jessica Jones, now married to Luke Cage and a proud parent in the pages of New Avengers.
So, who would make a good live-action Jessica Jones? Let us know in the comments.
December 18th, 2010 at 8:34 am
Never read the Alias comic, though I heard good things about it… Perhaps it’s worth checking out.
The title “AKA Jessica Jones” isn’t terribly marketing friendly though.
December 18th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Might work better for TV, though, seeing as its source material already had its name nailed down in the TV market…
December 18th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
glad they’re using a different name for the TV show, otherwise it would be very confusing. But I agree, a name like AKA Jessica Jones is just asking for it to be canned after 3 weeks.
December 18th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
The crappy writer of the crappy Twilight movies adapting a crappy comic. That makes sense.
December 19th, 2010 at 6:42 am
What’s in a name? There was ‘Alias Smith and Jones’, ‘James At 15 & 16′, ‘Taxi’, ‘Cheers’, ‘Friends’, ‘Seinfeld’, ‘Lost’…
Nothing appealing at all about those titles. It’s what those shows contained that made the name stand out, not vice versa.
‘Alias’ is very much worth checking out, btw.
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