Happy!Meloni
Nov. 15th, 2016 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Well! This is certainly intriguing!
It was announced yesterday on Deadline that Chris Meloni will be starring in a pilot based on the graphic novel "Happy!" for the Syfy channel. He will also serve as one of the pilot's executive producers (alongside his longtime agent-turned-manager Bill Butler). From Deadline:
Underground star Chris Meloni is set as the male lead in Syfy pilot Happy!, based on Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s graphic novel.
Meloni will play Nick Sax. Once a rock star detective for a major metropolitan police force, Nick lost it all. Now he’s a broken, down-and-out hired killer who makes just enough money to support a steady diet of booze, drugs and sarcasm by carrying out hits for the mob. After one hit goes wrong, his life is forever changed by a tiny, relentlessly positive, imaginary blue-winged horse. Meloni also will executive produce the pilot.
That's right, people. A flying blue unicorn:

Above graphic from Superhero Hype, which had the following official synopsis of "Happy!":
Meet Nick Sax, a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man, adrift in a stinking twilight world of casual murder, soulless sex, eczema and betrayal. With a hit gone wrong, a bullet in his side, the cops and the mob on his tail, and a monstrous child killer in a Santa suit on the loose, Nick and his world will be changed forever this Christmas. By a tiny blue horse called Happy.
Oh. My. God. Booze! Drugs! Sarcasm! Murder! Soulless sex! Hallucinogenic fairy tale creatures!

(No, Meloni! When in doubt, leave your pants off!)
I think this is going to be totally awesome. Either awesomely good or awesomely bad, and frankly, I don't really care which one it is.
It was announced yesterday on Deadline that Chris Meloni will be starring in a pilot based on the graphic novel "Happy!" for the Syfy channel. He will also serve as one of the pilot's executive producers (alongside his longtime agent-turned-manager Bill Butler). From Deadline:
Underground star Chris Meloni is set as the male lead in Syfy pilot Happy!, based on Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s graphic novel.
Meloni will play Nick Sax. Once a rock star detective for a major metropolitan police force, Nick lost it all. Now he’s a broken, down-and-out hired killer who makes just enough money to support a steady diet of booze, drugs and sarcasm by carrying out hits for the mob. After one hit goes wrong, his life is forever changed by a tiny, relentlessly positive, imaginary blue-winged horse. Meloni also will executive produce the pilot.
That's right, people. A flying blue unicorn:

Above graphic from Superhero Hype, which had the following official synopsis of "Happy!":
Meet Nick Sax, a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man, adrift in a stinking twilight world of casual murder, soulless sex, eczema and betrayal. With a hit gone wrong, a bullet in his side, the cops and the mob on his tail, and a monstrous child killer in a Santa suit on the loose, Nick and his world will be changed forever this Christmas. By a tiny blue horse called Happy.
Oh. My. God. Booze! Drugs! Sarcasm! Murder! Soulless sex! Hallucinogenic fairy tale creatures!

(No, Meloni! When in doubt, leave your pants off!)
I think this is going to be totally awesome. Either awesomely good or awesomely bad, and frankly, I don't really care which one it is.