Horror Comic Gideon Falls to See TV Treatment

Image Comics’ hit comic book series Gideon Falls is being adapted for TV by Hivemind.

An atmospheric thriller mixing rural mystery and urban horror, the series follows an ensemble cast of seemingly random strangers—a washed-up Catholic priest, an uncompromising female sheriff and a young recluse obsessed with unraveling a conspiracy buried in his city’s trash—as they become drawn into a mystery connected to a long-forgotten local legend. Co-creators Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino will be working with Hivemind to bring the comic to life on the small screen.

Hivemind currently produces the sci-fi series The Expanse, which recently moved to Amazon, and Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of The Witcher, based on the series of novels that inspired the best-selling game franchise.

“Gideon Falls is psychological horror told with a deeply humanistic touch, a story about imperfect people who confront their own demons—imagined and supernatural alike,” said Hivemind Co-President Jason Brown. “It is this kind of expertly fashioned, character-focused genre storytelling that inspired us to form Hivemind, and it is our mission to collaborate with world-class authors, artists, and rights holders like Jeff and Andrea to bring their stories to the screen in an authentic way.”

“Gideon Falls is a story that is very near to our hearts, and Andrea and I could not be more excited to be partnering with Hivemind to bring the terror, and the story of Fred, Norton and The Black Barn, to an even wider audience,” said Lemire, series co-creator and writer.

“It’s great to imagine Gideon Falls, and all these characters whom we’ve been working so hard to realize in the graphic novel, now coming to life on TV screens,” added Sorrentino, series co-creator and artist.