DC Comics Will Adapt Lucifer Graphic Novel Series For FOX From Californication Producer: The Lord Of Hell Will Head To Los Angeles

While DC continues to shoot itself in the foot with regards to the films of its major characters; they have been giving Marvel a run for its money in the television world. I like Agents of SHIELD, but I love Arrow. With three new DC comics pilots set to premiere this fall, Gotham, The Flash (an Arrow spinoff) and Constantine, based on Hellblazer, DC is already adding another to that list: Lucifer.

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Deadline reports that Californication creator Tom Kapinos has inked a deal with FOX to bring the Lord of Hell to television alongside Warner Bros TV, who oversees all DC TV properties.

Though several incarnations of Lucifer have appeared in DC comics, this particular Lucifer was created by author and comics legend Neil Gaiman for The Sandman back in 1989. He is a suave, well spoken gentlemen who understands the universe much better than even the Creator and is among the most sympathetic portrayals of the Lord of Hell in all of western literature. In the series, Lucifer grows tired of his rule, which lasted for some perilously long amount of time, even though his rebellion was but a fraction of the fraction of that time. He then simply gives up the keys to the kingdom and retires to earth.

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The television series will adapt the Lucifer solo series, written by Mike Carey, which ran for 75 issues from 2000 to 2006. In it, Lucifer runs a piano bar named Lux in Los Angeles, deals with angels and demons of all stripes and confronts the damning problem of free-will. I look forward to seeing who they will cast as the Lord of Lies; though in truth, he may be the most honest one of us all.

No word if Neil Gaiman will be brought onto the project as of yet.

You can buy Lucifer right now. And if you have not read The Sandman, you owe it to yourself to pick it up. They call it one of the greatest graphic novels ever, and they would be right.

Meanwhile, I can think of someone who could be great at the role...