On Sunday, January 17th (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), FOX will preview the new TV series HUMAN TARGET-- a full-throttle action-drama centered on Christopher Chance (Mark Valley, Fringe), a unique private contractor hired to protect, based on the DC Comics character created by Len Wein and artist Carmine Infantino and reimagined for Vertigo by Peter Milligan (Shade the Changing Man, Skreemer, Greek Street, Hellblazer).
To coincide with its release, Vertigo will collect Milligan's original 4-issue HUMAN TARGET comic book miniseries with art by Edvin Biukovic along with the follow-up, standalone, 96-page HUMAN TARGET: FINAL CUT OGN with art by Javier Pulido (Robin: Year One) in a 200-page paperback called HUMAN TARGET: Chance Meetings.
HUMAN TARGET was one of the first series my boss gave to me to read when I started working here at Vertigo. If you haven't already read this outstanding interpretation of HUMAN TARGET, this is your chance.
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For those of you who want to know a bit more about the upcoming FOX TV series:
Call him what you like, because for Chance, it’s about one thing only: saving his clients’ lives. When there is an unusual or imminent threat that can’t be solved through “normal” means of protection, Chance is hired to completely integrate himself into his clients’ lives – to become the human target.Chance -- assisted by his business partner, Winston (Chi McBride, Pushing Daisies), and hired gun Guerrero (Jackie Earle Haley, Watchmen) -- puts himself directly in the line of fire as he races against time to save his client, while unraveling the truth behind the mission. But does anyone know the truth about who Christopher Chance really is, or what secrets lay buried in his past? What would make a man willingly becomes a HUMAN TARGET?
HUMAN TARGET is a production of Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Wonderland Sound and Vision, DC Comics and Warner Bros. Television. Jon Steinberg (Jericho), McG (Terminator Salvation), Brad Kern (Charmed), Kevin Hooks (Prison Break) and Peter Johnson (Chuck) serve as executive producers. Simon West (Con Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) directed the pilot.
