‘Chronicle’ Writer Max Landis Is Writing ‘Vigilant,’ A TV Show Exploring Vigilante Action
By Russ Fischer/Sept. 18, 2012 3:30 pm EST
Now he’s got a TV show in development at Teakwood Lane, a television production company based at Fox. Vigilant sounds like it explores the idea of a vigilante working both against the system and against a bigger criminal element.
Deadline says the story is “told through the unlikely POV of a brilliant 20-year old woman who is also a social outcast. After an honorable veteran detective is brutally coerced into working for the corrupt head of Internal Affairs, the detective’s daughter plans her revenge by meticulously constructing a fictional vigilante persona to take on the criminal elements within the police department and the city.”
The trades are calling this sort of a superhero origin story, but Landis seems to disagree. He said on Twitter,
That launched an extended digression from Landis about what the show is, or rather what it is not:
