NEWS: Ellen Page, Sean Tillman and Alia Shawkat To Pen HBO Series...

This morning, even through a HUGE freezing of Twitter due to some much talked about business, we are getting at least one particularly interesting news story.

It appears as though Ellen Page, Alia Shawkat (Maeby Fünke from "Arrested Development") and musician Har Mar Superstar (Sean Tillman) are writing a single-camera series for HBO called, "Stitch N' Bitch." The triptec will also serve as the shows executive producers, which will follow a pair of hipster girls as they move from Williamsburg, New York to Silverlake, Los Angeles to make it as artists.

The two actresses in question are also considering starring in this project, but nothing is really in the works to any extent yet.

I love Ellen Page, so this project is definitely getting the benefit of the doubt from this guy, but this just sounds beyond painfully cliche and really dull. /Film actually sums up my thoughts better than I ever could:

I’ll give this one the benefit of the doubt until given some reason not to. I like Page, love Shawkat and, despite the fact that the lead characters are hipsters, always so easy to hate, this is a comedy. More than likely, there’s a lot of good poking fun at rootless, foolish trust-fund kids in store. I’m mentally conjuring up an image of a show kind of like Absolutely Fabulous or (dare I say it?) The Young Ones, both of which were able to lampoon extreme or sub-cultural characters without actually treating them poorly.

The only question that I have for this project is how much will this crew actually write? Will they do a Joss Whedon and while not writing all the episodes, have a hands on approach to the project, or something like The United States of Tara, where Diablo Cody wrote the series, but episodes were handed off to a group of writers who weren't the former stripper. If they pull a Whedon, than this is going to be something I'm interested in, however, if they are more producers than writers, than it may just be a pit too painful.

What do YOU think?

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NEWS: Finally, It Looks Like HBO Is Getting A Comic Book Series...Maybe...

So, every so often, a comic book series will be adapted into a feature length film, and besides talking about the quality of the said film, one thing is always the same. Everyone begins to ponder, at least at the outset, why the film simply couldn't become a television series, with the most talked about channel being the bastions of brilliant television (minus Entourage), HBO.

Well, we finally may have that show, and it will come in the form of the Eisner Award winning book, 100 Bullets. Here's the story's premise:

The Eisner and Havey Award-winning comic book hinges on the question of whether people would take the chance to get away with revenge. It’s a Twilight Zone-like morality decision, where a mysterious Agent named Graves approaches people who have been the victim of some kind of terrible injustice or wrong, and gives them the chance to set things right in the form of a nondescript attaché case containing a handgun, 100 untraceable bullets, and a photograph of a person, along with incontrovertible evidence that target presented is primarily and personally responsible for recipient’s woes. The bullets are completely untraceable and that any law enforcement investigation that uncovers one of them will immediately stop.

Amazing premise, right? Right. Well this not only sounds like a great idea, but in a recent interview with MTV, Brian Azzarello had this to say...

Television — there’s an idea!” Before continuing “That’s all I’ll say. Television… or maybe something that’s not just TV.

While I've never read the book series, I do love the art style to the book, and the premise is beyond interesting, and it allows for a lot of interesting ideas to be mined. Oh, and for those who know about HBO, you know that if it's not TV, it's HBO, so who knows exactly what Azzarello was saying. Heres to hoping.

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