Graphic Novel Series "The Shrouded College" Set for TV Adaptation

The graphic novel series "The Shrouded College" is set to be adapted into a TV series after Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door and UCP secured the rights. The project is set up at Peacock.

"The Shrouded College" is an interconnected set of seven adventure-horror stories that will be published in comic and graphic novel formats over the next several years. Taken together, the series tells the stories of various characters enlisted to become secret agents fighting a supernatural cold war on the side of the Shrouded College, a down-and-out organization on the edge of destruction.

The first graphic novel in the series, "Hell to Pay", was published by Image Comics in November 2022 and the second installment, The Bloody Dozen, will publish in late 2023.

The book series comes from Charles Soule and Will Sliney, who will exec produce the project alongside MacFarlane, Erica Huggins, and Rachel Hargreaves-Heald for Fuzzy Door.

Soule is the author of a number of comics for Marvel, DC, and Lucasfilm including "Daredevil", "Death of Wolverine", and "Darth Vader" as well as a run on "She-Hulk" that served as inspiration for the Disney+ television show. He is also a creative consultant for Lucasfilm across the Star Wars universe.

Sliney has drawn characters from "Star Wars" and "Spider-Man" and produced and starred in series such as Sky’s "Draw With Will" and RTE’s "Will Sliney’s Storytellers". He is the co-founder of Pioneertown Productions.

USG’s Creative Acquisitions and IP Management team, led by Jordan Moblo, alongside Fuzzy Door President Erica Huggins struck the deal.

It is the latest project from Family Guy creator MacFarlane via his mega-deal with NBCUniversal and its studio Universal Studio Group.

His company Fuzzy Door is behind Hulu’s "The Orville", "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" as well as a TV adaptation of his movie "Ted", also for Peacock, which aired his series "The End Is Nye", hosted by Bill Nye.

It is also behind adaptations of the novel "All Our Wrongs Today" and the sci-fi short film "Skywatch" as well as an animated take on Norman Lear’s classic sitcom, "Good Times", for Netflix and a limited series based on "The Winds of War" as well as a feature film reboot of "Revenge of the Nerds".