NBC is developing a TV adaptation of writer Joe Harris and artist Steve Rolston’s Ghost Projekt comic book, originally published by Oni Press in 2010. The five-issue series followed U.S. weapons inspector Will Haley and Russian federal investigator Anya Romanova as they attempted to track down Soviet-era weapons stolen from a research facility in Siberia. What starts as a post-Cold War spy thriller quickly takes a supernatural turn.
This is the second time Ghost Projekt has been considered for TV. SyFy planned a mini-series adaptation in 2011, around the same time it was eyeing up a series based on Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s The Sixth Gun comic. SyFy later passed on both. The Sixth Gun moved to NBC and got as far as a pilot, but the network did not pick up the series.
NBC has commissioned a pilot from writer John Glenn and director André Øvredal, who brought the world the cult movie Trollhunter – a natural choice for sinister goings-on in snowy Arctic Circle wastelands.
