‘The Banks’ Roxane Gay Adapting Graphic Novel As TV Series For New Regency & TKO Studios
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: New Regency and TKO Studios are developing a television series based on graphic novel The Banks, created by Roxane Gay and artist Ming Doyle.
Gay is set to pen the adaptation, which stems from the exclusive development and production partnership New Regency and TKO Studios entered last year.The Banks focuses on the women of the Banks family who are the most successful thieves in Chicago.
During the heist of a lifetime, they must band together to avenge a loved one taken too soon.Gay is the author of the books “Ayiti,” “An Untamed State,” the New York Times bestselling “Bad Feminist,” the nationally bestselling “Difficult Women,” and the New York Times bestselling “Hunger.” She is also the author of “World of Wakanda” for Marvel.
She is repped by WME, Massie&McQuilkin and Lev Ginsburg.New Regency’s upcoming television slate includes a series based on their 2005 film Mr.
