‘Sex Criminals’ Taps Nia DaCosta To Direct Pilot & Second Episode Of Prime Video Series Based On Comic

Hedda writer-director Nia DaCosta has been tapped to direct the pilot and second episode of Sex Criminals, Prime Video‘s series adaptation of Image Comics’ title that hails from Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, Tze Chun, LuckyChap and Amazon MGM Studios. DaCosta also will executive produce. The news was revealed Monday during Amazon’s Upfront presentation in New York City.

Imogen Poots and John Reynolds star in the eight-episode series, co-created by Gordon, Nanjiani and Chun. Poots stars as Suze, a normal girl with an extraordinary ability: when she has sex, she stops time. One night, she meets Jon (Reynolds)… who has the same gift. And so they do what any other sex-having, time-stopping couple would do: they rob banks.

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