‘Pushing Daisies’ Will Live On…In Comics at Least
Pushing Daisies comics are coming! Bryan Fuller tells E! Online that DC Comics has made a 12 issue order. “I think the comic book is great, because it has all the characters in it, and it starts a new story. It’s basically Chuck, Ned, Emerson and Olive versus 1,000 corpses, so it becomes a zombie movie, but the zombies are articulate and smart and can do things that no other zombies can do. The Pie-Maker versus 1,000 corpses."
The original idea was to bring the gang to the big screen. "It’s the movie idea that I wasn’t sure we’d get to do. [The plot] is not really so much the back nine as it would’ve been on the television show, it’s a whole new story that wraps everything up in a different context," says Bryan, speaking at the Paley Fest celebration of Pushing Daisies.
The comics will come out this fall, but this summer, you might want to plan a trip to the San Diego Comic-Con. "We’re hoping that we’ll have artwork as a giveaway at Comic-Con at the DC booth," says Fuller.
And the 12 issue order might not be the end of Pushing Daisies. "I literally just finished outlining the 12-episode arc, which has an ending that propels us into another big story, so it’s kind of blackmailing them into ordering more comics, but we’ll see if that’ll happen. We were unable to blackmail ABC, and we had to go back and redo our [television] ending, so it’s more satisfying for the fans."
Well it’s not as good as the show coming back, but it’s something! And don’t forget - the final three episodes of Pushing Daisies air on ABC beginning Saturday, May 30 at 10 p.m. and from the Paley buzz, it sounds like they will be worth the wait!
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