Beau Smith’s Cobb in Development for TV

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When Cobb first appeared, his adventure in the three-part Cobb: Off The Leash grabbed us, put us in a chair, slapped us around a bit, and made us confess to things we never actually did. In other words, it was a really great comic book story.
In other words, it had Beau Smith written all over it.
Now, IDW Entertainment and Entertainment One Television (eOne Television) have announced that the Secret Service comic book is being developed for television under their first look co-production agreement. Cobb is being developed as a television series. Veteran writer and producer Thania St. John (Covert Affairs, Chicago Fire) is writing the pilot and will serve as showrunner on the series.

In their announcement, IDW described Cobb as a conspiracy thriller following Frank Cobb, a top ranking Secret Service agent, whose life gets turned upside down when he is removed from active duty after stumbling onto a deadly conspiracy at the highest global level. He must win back his reputation and save the newly elected President of the United States.

“There is no margin for error when guarding the President of the United States, but the men and women of the Secret Service are only human, as we’ve learned this week” said St. John. “This show explores how one agent’s heroism – or mistake – can affect global security.”

If you’ve read the mini-series or the beautiul, magazine-size collected edition, you know that in Cobb there isn’t much in the way of posing, there aren’t any stupid catch phrases, and the action isn’t over the top.

Instead, what readers got was a well paced story packed with pragmatic bad guys in the form of Russian mobsters, relentlessly solid good guys who don’t have a lot of contrived angst for doing the right thing, and circumstances spiraling out of control when the two sides meet. The action was spectacular, but not unbelievable. Likewise the plot, and Cobb and his friends are people you would definitely want to have your back in a fight.

“The best protection the President can have is courage…and Cobb. I look forward to seeing this courage and Cobb come alive in this new television series based on my character,” Smith said.

Executive Producing the series are Ted Adams and David Ozer from IDW Entertainment, John Morayniss, Michael Rosenberg, and Benedict Carver from eOne, and David Alpert and Rick Jacobs from Circle of Confusion (The Walking Dead).

In a career marked thus far by diverse characters from a variety of publishers, ranging from The Black Terror at Eclipse Comics to Guy Gardner at DC, Smith has established himself as a writer with a distinct take on things. Whether he’s been working on someone else’s characters, such as Wildcat, or his own, like Wynonna Earp, his characters have had a certain rough-and-tumble directness to them, a straight forward honesty akin to John Wayne’s Rooster Cogburn in True Grit.
That said, even Smith’s diehard fans might not find themselves ready for Cobb. Matched with the fluid linework of the late and dearly missed artist Eduardo Barreto, Smith has poured himself and his sensibilities into this story and the results are outstanding, a real page turner of a read.

It’s one that could easily make the leap to the small screen with its basic honesty intact.

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Beau Smith’s Cobb in Development for TV

Categories: News|Published On: October 10, 2014|Views: 66|

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When Cobb first appeared, his adventure in the three-part Cobb: Off The Leash grabbed us, put us in a chair, slapped us around a bit, and made us confess to things we never actually did. In other words, it was a really great comic book story.
In other words, it had Beau Smith written all over it.
Now, IDW Entertainment and Entertainment One Television (eOne Television) have announced that the Secret Service comic book is being developed for television under their first look co-production agreement. Cobb is being developed as a television series. Veteran writer and producer Thania St. John (Covert Affairs, Chicago Fire) is writing the pilot and will serve as showrunner on the series.

In their announcement, IDW described Cobb as a conspiracy thriller following Frank Cobb, a top ranking Secret Service agent, whose life gets turned upside down when he is removed from active duty after stumbling onto a deadly conspiracy at the highest global level. He must win back his reputation and save the newly elected President of the United States.

“There is no margin for error when guarding the President of the United States, but the men and women of the Secret Service are only human, as we’ve learned this week” said St. John. “This show explores how one agent’s heroism – or mistake – can affect global security.”

If you’ve read the mini-series or the beautiul, magazine-size collected edition, you know that in Cobb there isn’t much in the way of posing, there aren’t any stupid catch phrases, and the action isn’t over the top.

Instead, what readers got was a well paced story packed with pragmatic bad guys in the form of Russian mobsters, relentlessly solid good guys who don’t have a lot of contrived angst for doing the right thing, and circumstances spiraling out of control when the two sides meet. The action was spectacular, but not unbelievable. Likewise the plot, and Cobb and his friends are people you would definitely want to have your back in a fight.

“The best protection the President can have is courage…and Cobb. I look forward to seeing this courage and Cobb come alive in this new television series based on my character,” Smith said.

Executive Producing the series are Ted Adams and David Ozer from IDW Entertainment, John Morayniss, Michael Rosenberg, and Benedict Carver from eOne, and David Alpert and Rick Jacobs from Circle of Confusion (The Walking Dead).

In a career marked thus far by diverse characters from a variety of publishers, ranging from The Black Terror at Eclipse Comics to Guy Gardner at DC, Smith has established himself as a writer with a distinct take on things. Whether he’s been working on someone else’s characters, such as Wildcat, or his own, like Wynonna Earp, his characters have had a certain rough-and-tumble directness to them, a straight forward honesty akin to John Wayne’s Rooster Cogburn in True Grit.
That said, even Smith’s diehard fans might not find themselves ready for Cobb. Matched with the fluid linework of the late and dearly missed artist Eduardo Barreto, Smith has poured himself and his sensibilities into this story and the results are outstanding, a real page turner of a read.

It’s one that could easily make the leap to the small screen with its basic honesty intact.

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