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Trailer For Syfy’s ‘Happy!’ Makes Us Happy!

by Dave Elliott

Ever since SYFY announced they were developing a tv adaptation of Grant Morrison’s Happy! comic book, we’ve been wondering how on earth they were going to pull it off. Now we have an answer, as the first trailer drops for the upcoming tv series.

‘Happy!’ stars Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: SVU, True Blood) as Nick Sax, a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man, who is 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 are changed forever… by a tiny, relentlessly positive, imaginary, blue horse called Happy!

As you can see from the trailer, they really are determined to put the ‘graphic’ into this graphic novel adaptation! It rather feels like Brian Taylor (‘Crank’, ‘Gamer’, ‘Jonah Hex’) who directed the pilot, and co-wrote the series with Grant Morrison, has been inspired by watching episodes of ‘Preacher’… which is no bad thing.

Morrison is a prolific comic book writer, probably best known for his recent run on the Batman & Robin books, which popularised the character of Damian Wayne, son of Batman/Bruce Wayne, and saw Dick Grayson don the cowl of the Bat. Patrick Macmanus (‘Marco Polo’) serves as showrunner.

No news on a UK air date for Happy! yet,  but it will premiere December 6, 2017, on SYFY US. Hopefully, we’ll see the show land here soon afterwards.

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