Rick Remender knew what he wanted when he created his graphic novel, Deadly Class (with art by Wesley Craig), and he wasn’t about to compromise that vision for TV. “I said, ‘look, I'm not handing this over. I'm going to be writing it and running it and doing all the music.’” And that’s exactly what Syfy and his producing partners, the Russo Brothers (you may know them from those tiny little Avengers films), let him do.
Deadly Class is the ‘80s-set story of orphan Marcus Lopez Arguello (Benjamin Wadsworth) and his classmates at King’s Dominion High School for the Deadly Arts. A training ground for the deadliest assassins in the world, run by the mysterious Master Lin (Benedict Wong), Marcus must survive not only his lessons, but his classmates, and the people seemingly always out to get him after he burned down his old orphanage. Oh yeah, and Marcus — by the way — wants to kill Ronald Reagan. (It’s a whole thing.)
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Deadly Class is the ‘80s-set story of orphan Marcus Lopez Arguello (Benjamin Wadsworth) and his classmates at King’s Dominion High School for the Deadly Arts. A training ground for the deadliest assassins in the world, run by the mysterious Master Lin (Benedict Wong), Marcus must survive not only his lessons, but his classmates, and the people seemingly always out to get him after he burned down his old orphanage. Oh yeah, and Marcus — by the way — wants to kill Ronald Reagan. (It’s a whole thing.)
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