Imogen Poots and John Reynolds Lead Primevideo's Sex Criminals
Primevideo has tapped Imogen Poots and John Reynolds to lead its eight-episode Sex Criminals series, pushing the comic adaptation out of development and into casting. The project gives the streamer a clear pair of leads for a show based on a title originally published in 2013.
Poots As Suze
Poots will play Suze, one of the two characters at the center of the series. In the adaptation, Suze stops time when she has sex, and that same gift links her to Jon, the role taken by Reynolds.
That premise keeps the series tied to a very specific hook, which is useful for a platform trying to turn a comic property into an identifiable original. The story does not just adapt the source material; it builds its engine around the shared ability that drives Suze and Jon into bank robberies.
Nanjiani And Gordon
Kumail Nanjiani will also appear in the series, adding another on-screen name to a project that already has three creators steering it. Emily V. Gordon, Nanjiani and Tze Chun co-created the adaptation and serve as showrunners, while also executive producing it alongside LuckyChap and Amazon MGM Studios.
The producing lineup is unusually crowded for an eight-episode order, and that points to how much value the property has for the companies backing it. The comic was written by Matt Fraction and illustrated by Chip Zdarsky, then originally published in 2013, giving the show a source with an established identity before a frame has aired.
2013 Comic To Series
Sex Criminals starts from a comic about two people who discover they share the same unusual ability and use it to rob banks. That is the kind of logline streamers use when they want a series to travel quickly in a crowded market: one clean premise, a short run, and recognizable creative names behind it.
The immediate job now is simple. Primevideo has its leads, its showrunners and its eight-episode format; what comes next is the actual production path from casting to camera, with Poots, Reynolds and Nanjiani attached to turn a long-moving comic adaptation into a series that can finally reach the screen.
