Eric Kripke Is ‘Desperate’ To Adapt Saga

“Saga” is one comic you’ll likely never see on the big or small screen. Brian K. Vaughan, whose other works “Paper Girls” and “Y: The Last Man” have been adapted, has outright stated that he and Fiona Staples are guarded about their rights to the creator-owned Image Comics series and don’t foresee a live-action version of “Saga:” 

“I wanted to do something that was way too expensive to be TV and too dirty and grown-up to be a four-quadrant blockbuster,” Vaughan told the Hollywood Reporter back in 2012. He added, “I guess I wanted [to] make something that if people were looking at this and going, ‘Is this something we can option,’ they would close it right away and say, ‘This is not for us.'”

Bringing “Saga” to live-action would require creative input from Vaughan and Fiona Staples and a massive budget, given the incredible cosmic settings, alien characters, and worlds created in the book. Ultimately, it’s hard to deny the comic is the best way for the story to exist, as it would be a near-impossible task to do it justice in another medium. But, if they do decide to do a movie getting big names attached wouldn’t be a big challenge, with actors like Tessa Thompson expressing love for the comic. 

If Vaughan and Staples ever gave anyone the green light to adapt the series, Kripke would be a fine choice to lead it. Just don’t expect news anytime soon.

“Saga” is one comic you’ll likely never see on the big or small screen. Brian K. Vaughan, whose other works “Paper Girls” and “Y: The Last Man” have been adapted, has outright stated that he and Fiona Staples are guarded about their rights to the creator-owned Image Comics series and don’t foresee a live-action version of “Saga:” 

“I wanted to do something that was way too expensive to be TV and too dirty and grown-up to be a four-quadrant blockbuster,” Vaughan told the Hollywood Reporter back in 2012. He added, “I guess I wanted [to] make something that if people were looking at this and going, ‘Is this something we can option,’ they would close it right away and say, ‘This is not for us.'”

Bringing “Saga” to live-action would require creative input from Vaughan and Fiona Staples and a massive budget, given the incredible cosmic settings, alien characters, and worlds created in the book. Ultimately, it’s hard to deny the comic is the best way for the story to exist, as it would be a near-impossible task to do it justice in another medium. But, if they do decide to do a movie getting big names attached wouldn’t be a big challenge, with actors like Tessa Thompson expressing love for the comic. 

If Vaughan and Staples ever gave anyone the green light to adapt the series, Kripke would be a fine choice to lead it. Just don’t expect news anytime soon.