Danny McBride's "Hench" doesn't appear to be moving forward — no big surprise, considering we've heard approximately zilch on the project in three years. But that doesn't mean an adaptation of the AiT/Planet Lar graphic novel is necessarily out of the running. Far from it, in fact.
Deadline reports that NBC is developing a new series titled "Hench," with Peter Berg and Sarah Aubrey's Film 44 teaming up with Universal TV and writer Alexandra Cunningham for the series.
The report describes the series as centering "on a regular guy who, in order to support his family, gets jobs temping for super villains." The "Hench" comic book, meanwhile, focused on a disabled football player who became a supervillain to earn some extra cash. Sounds similar, doesn't it?
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