Sex Criminals: Imogen Poots and John Reynolds Join Prime Video’s Adaptation of the Award-Winning Comic
The eight-episode series follows a couple who stop time during sex and use the power to rob banks.
- Deadline reported that Imogen Poots and John Reynolds have been cast as leads in Amazon Prime Video's eight-episode adaptation of the Image Comics series Sex Criminals, playing characters Suzie and Jon.
- Created by writer Matt Fraction and artist Chip Zdarsky, the comic follows two characters who discover they share the ability to stop time whenever they climax, which they naturally decide to use to rob banks.
- Showrunners Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, and Tze Chun are executive producing the series, with Nanjiani also set to appear on screen alongside production partners Amazon MGM Studios, LuckyChap, and Winter Coat Films.
- Poots is known for roles in 28 Weeks Later and Need for Speed, while Reynolds has starred in Search Party and Stranger Things, bringing established talent to the long-gestating project.
- Although Hollywood flirted with adapting the 2013 comic series for years, the project gained momentum this January with the eight-episode order, marking a significant advancement for the modern adaptation.
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Sex Criminals: Imogen Poots and John Reynolds Join Prime Video’s Adaptation of the Award-Winning Comic
Prime Video's adaptation of the Image Comics series has taken a major step forward, with Deadline reporting that Imogen Poots (Vivarium) and John Reynolds (Seekers of Infinite Love) have been cast as the leads in the upcoming series. Poots and Reynolds are playing lovers Suzie and Jon, respectively. Both characters have the ability to freeze time whenever they orgasm, an ability they naturally put to good use by robbing banks after sex.Sex Crimi…
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PasteImogen Poots and John Reynolds are your Sex Criminals
As far as TV adaptations of well-loved modern comics go, we’d kind of assumed it’d be a while before Hollywood really got serious about Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s Sex Criminals, what with its premise relying on the Standards And Practices-terrorizing question “What if time stopped every time you had an orgasm?” But here we are, with Deadline confirming the news: Imogen Poots and John Reynolds are your new Sex Criminals, courtesy of Prime V…
Imogen Poots & John Reynolds To Headline 'Sex Criminals' At Prime Video
EXCLUSIVE: Imogen Poots (The Chronology of Water) and John Reynolds (Seekers of Infinite Love) have been tapped as the leads of Sex Criminals, Prime Video’s series adaptation of Image Comics’ title that hails from Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, Tze Chun, LuckyChap and Amazon MGM Studios. In the eight-episode Sex Criminals, co-created by Gordon, Nanjiani […]
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