Minor Threats, the hit comic book from actor-comedian Patton Oswalt and screenwriter Jordan Blum, is being adapted to television at Netflix.
Oswalt and Blum will both serve as writers, showrunners, and executive producers on the live-action adaptation. Scott Hepburn, who drew the title, will also executive produce, alongside Dark Horse Entertainment’s Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg. As you may remember, Dark Horse has a first-look deal with Netflix, which is how we got the popular superhero series Umbrella Academy, whose fourth and final season will release to the streamer August 8th.
Similarly to Umbrella Academy, Minor Threats offers an off-kilter take on the superhero genre. In the first issue of Minor Threats: “It’s hard out there for a supervillain. Not the world conquerors, chaos engines, or arch-nemeses . . . but the little guys. The ones who put on uniforms, knock over jewelry stores, and get tied to poles. And things are about to get worse. The psychotic Stickman has murdered Kid Dusk, sidekick to Twilight City’s premier crime-fighter, the Insomniac. The Insomniac’s teammates are tearing Twilight apart, turning it into a police state–desperate to capture Stickman and stop the Insomniac from crossing that final line which he may never come back from. Caught in the middle are the small-time c-list villains, finding it impossible to walk down the street without being harassed by these heroes. With a bounty on the Stickman’s head, former villain Playtime decides to assemble a ragtag team of villains to take down the Stickman and kill him themselves.”
Oswalt and Jordan previously created and showran Marvel’s stop-motion animated series, M.O.D.O.K., which streamed on Hulu.
The Minor Threats adaptation is still in early development, according to THR’s exclusive.