ABC working on a pilot for DC's Vertigo comic "Fables." According to The Hollywood Reporter executive producers Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner will be writing the hourlong drama. David Semel will be directing the adapted comic.
"Their lives become interconnected in vary big way," Zicherman said. "They share a secret and a bond."
The comic book series' first storyline followed Fabletown's sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, who investigates the murder of Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red.
"We set up a structure to allow any fairy tale character to show up in any one episode," Metzner said.
The fairy tale characters will keep some of their trademark characteristics. For instance, Prince Charming will be handsome, while Big Bad Wolf will have to shave a four-day shadow from growing back every day.
But overall, "they are just like real people in the real world who live and breathe and look just like you and me," Metzner said.
