Variety is reporting that Universal Pictures has acquired the film rights to Criminal Macabre, a graphic miniseries written by Steve Niles and featuring paranormal private investigator Cal McDonald. The character first appeared in a 1990 short story and to date has appeared in 24 episodes of the series. Kyle Ward will write the script.
Synopsis: The world has two faces. The natural and the supernatural. The face we see every day, people filing past us in an almost zombie-like stupor, numb to the horrors of everyday life or driven to madness by the pain and agony of modern-day existence. And those are the people who aren't zombies or monsters! Cal McDonald is a detective with one foot in the real world, and one in the world of magic. For Cal, the horrors we all dream about in the fevered darkness of the night are all too real, kept at bay through an almost constant influx of drugs to numb the pain, but never erase it. Cut from the same mold as Sam Spade, Jake Gittes, and the famous detectives of Chandler, Hammett, and Spillane, Cal McDonald, whether he likes it or not, is all that stands between us and the nightmare world just outside our vision.
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