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BBC Studios is working on a TV version of David Barnett and Philip Bond’s comic strip Eve Stranger, according to a report at Deadline.

It will come from their Drama Production Unit, whose previous series including The Watch and follows ” the enigmatic Eve, an “amnesiac for hire” who has unlimited funds, a jet-set lifestyle and extraordinary abilities.” According to producer Matthew Bouch, it’s “a mind-bending journey, a wild mix of complex characters and comic book verve taking us on an action-adventure ride that dazzles even as it deepens in psychological richness.”

“What David and Philip created under Shelly Bond’s auspices is a character for the ages,” said executive producer Chris Ryall. “Eve is a black-ops action hero capable of amazing feats but incapable of remembering last week. Every job, Eve wakes up with a new assignment and a bloodstream filled with nanobombs that can only be suppressed by the contents of a mind-erasing syringe… and after her misadventures with giant gorillas, extreme assassins, and other unsavoury types, she has found the perfect partner in BBC Studios, and so have we. I can’t wait to see Eve’s adventures come to life and engage viewers like they did readers.”

Writer David Barnett added, “I could not think of better hands in which to put an adaptation of Eve Stranger than BBC Studios’ Drama Production department. They totally get what Philip and I were doing with the Eve Stranger comics and I simply cannot wait to see how the high-octane thrills, quirky humour and sheer non-stop adventure is translated to television.”

Philip Bond, series artist/co-creator and co-founder of publishing imprint OffRegister.Press said, “Eve Stranger was the most fun I’d had creating comics in years. David and I threw everything into the pages: the giant gorilla, the Goa party, the Orient Express, the gadgets, the clothes. If the cast and crew on an adaptation have as much fun making Eve as we did, and dress Eve in the right boots, it’ll be a joy to watch.”

Veronica Gleeson (Sixteen, Lion, Berlin Syndrome) will adapt. She said: ‘Eve Stranger is hot, messy and heartfelt. I was immediately drawn to the anarchic energy and imaginative reach. What begins as a psychedelic genre lark finds compelling shape through characters with complex connections and compromised morality. It also features a large monkey. I am thrilled to be involved.’

Speaking to Sci-Fi Bulletin, Barnett noted, “We’re all absolutely over the moon that BBC Studios has picked up Eve Stranger for adaptation into a TV series. When Philip Bond and I, alongside Shelly Bond, were creating the character we knew we had something quirky, original and compelling, and it’s absolutely amazing that the team at BBC Studios, which is responsible for some brilliant programmes, has seen the same thing. Veronica Gleason is a fantastic screenwriter and I can’t wait to see her take on Eve and her weird and wonderful cast of co-stars.”