Vertigo’s The Exterminators Coming to TV
by Wesley Johnson ~ July 9th, 2008. Filed under: .
Showtime is currently in the process of bringing the Vertigo comic series The Exterminators to the small screen. The book, written by Simon Oliver and Tony Moore, tells the story of an ex-con that lands a job at his stepfather’s Bug-Bee-Gone extermination company. A mystery develops sometime after his hire which involves a high-level executive a a company responsible for a new poisonous cockroach gel.
Newsarama points out that the book originally started out as a pitch for a television series.
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