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- No, Deadly Class is not based on a true story. It is a fictional series adapted from the graphic novel created by Rick Remender and Wes Craig.
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With Benedict Wong, Benjamin Wadsworth, Lana Condor, María Gabriela de Faría. Marcus, a disillusioned teen, is recruited into a storied high school for assassins. He is forced to maintain his moral code while navigating a ruthless curriculum and vicious social cliques.
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- 2018-12-20
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Deadly Class is an American action drama television series developed by Rick Remender and Miles Orion Feldsott for Syfy. It is based on the comic book series of the same name created by Remender and Wesley Craig and published by Image Comics.
Is Deadly Class based on a true story? No, Deadly Class is not based on a true story. It is a fictional series adapted from the graphic novel created by Rick Remender and Wes Craig.
- Here’s how the Russo Brothers - and the '80s themselves - brought Deadly Class to life.
- Deadly Class: "Reagan Youth" Photos
By Alicia Lutes
Updated: Dec 15, 2020 9:20 pm
Posted: Jan 16, 2019 7:31 pm
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.)
If you’re a fan of the comics, or just of nostalgia for the neon-flecked, crust-punkian era, you’ll no doubt appreciate the series’ visual language. It is slick and engaging, true to Director of Photography Owen McPolin’s (Vikings, Into the Badlands, Penny Dreadful) form, with exactly the sort of flair you’d expect from a Russo Brothers production (the fights! The pace!). In fact, it is thanks to the Russos' ability to help Remender “reimburse and re-adjust and to make everything as perfect as I possibly can,” that he feels the series is a more well-rounded version of the story he previously told. “I'm able to add shading and nuance and find other aspects of who they are [by] working with all these great people.”
What does that look like? Bigger backstories for smaller characters and more motivation, like Lex, Marcus’ classmate at school. “Lex (played by Jack Gillett) never had a backstory in the graphic novels; he became a pretty big player in the TV show,” Remender said. “That one was surprising … [and] is now one of my favorite backstories of all of them; we'll get to tell it in episode 7 or 8, I think.”
There have been changes though — namely when it comes to guns. Remender posits that there were far fewer school shootings when he wrote the comic, “six, seven years ago.” But now, “whatever's going on in our society ... makes it abundantly clear to me, as we're developing this, that I don't want to see a gun in the school. In the book it's just a drawing and it's beautifully illustrated. But that sort of graphic imagery can mean a lot of different things. And while I think it can be metaphorical and iconic in what it's representing [on the page], in live action that's a bridge too far.”
“Fortunately,” he added, “that really works to heighten the reality. Because it becomes something where the metaphor for violence is heightened by what they're using — maces and Ninja swords and katanas and things like this — which allows you to immerse [yourself] in it, as it's a separate reality from our own.”
Given that Deadly Class is a story about ‘80s assassins, there’s plenty of violence, bigotry, sex, drugs, and stereotypes to go around. But for Remender, this array of personalities and ideologies was purposeful, meant to render his own life experience heightened for entertainment — right down to the overt racism of characters like Brandy (Siobhan Williams), a white supremacist. “I was a dirty punk rock grommet living in downtown Phoenix and my parents moved me to a town in the middle of the desert, which was literally like the 1950s," he said. "I grew up in a place where I was surrounded by racists.”
So he put a racist contingent in his school filled with characters of various ethnicities, many of whom came to King’s Dominion thanks to their family’s gang connections (think of that what you will). For Remender, this was necessary for the sort of story he wanted to tell. When asked if he wanted to change any of the depictions when translating them to screen given our current reevaluation of what was deemed acceptable in that era, he demurred. “What's changed is we're all very frightened to talk about it, we're all worried we’re going to get [an] article written about us and somebody is going to take a giant s*** down our throats if we say it wrong.”
He believes his responsibility lies in showing it as he believed it was — not turning the series into, as he puts it, “a Saturday afternoon special where you have like a clean little moral and everybody learns a lesson.”
Deadly Class is a TV series that aired on Syfy from January to March of 2019, based on the comic book of the same name by Rick Remender and produced by The Russo Brothers.
It's a series based on a comic book, so the characters are all pretty stereotypical, but the series shows that you can tell an entertaining story with stereotypes.
Set against the backdrop of late 80s counter culture, Deadly Class is a coming of age story unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Based on the smash hit comic series of the same name by Rick Remender .
