Christopher Meloni will be Happy in TV adaptation of Grant Morrison’s comic

Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s graphic novel, Happy, is getting a TV adaptation on Syfy and Christopher Meloni(Wet Hot American Summer, Man of Steel, Law and Order: SVU) is going to play the lead character.

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.

Morrison and Brian Taylor (Crank, Gamer) will write and executive produce. Taylor will also direct. Neal Moritz, Pavun Shetty and Toby Jaffe of Original Film (The Fast and the Furious franchise) are set to executive produce alongside Morrison and Taylor.

Source: Deadline