Sonar Entertainment has optioned Auburn University graduate Tim Dorsey’s Serge A. Storms novels to develop a TV series according to Deadline Hollywood.
The series will be called “Florida Roadkill,” after Dorsey’s first book in the series, which was published in 1999.
Dorsey worked on The Auburn Plainsman, while he was at Auburn, and worked at the Alabama Journal in Montgomery before joining the Tampa Tribune.
Dorsey, who currently lives in Tampa, has written 19 novels in the darkly humorous series about psychotic criminal Serge A. Storms, who seems more normal and less criminal than many of the characters he meets in the author’s portraits of the weirdness that is Florida. While he suffers a wide range of mental illnesses and is homicidal, Serge’s sense of righteousness forces him to compulsively dispense justice to Florida hypocrites and criminals.
Deadline Hollywood reports that Evan Endicott and Josh Stoddard are planning to adapt Dorsey’s character for the series. The pair created the Amazon comedy series “Betas,” are currently writing and producing MTV’s upcoming “The Shannara Chronicles.”
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