‘Deadly Class’: Mick Betancourt Tapped As Co-Showrunner For Syfy Drama Series

‘Deadly Class’: Mick Betancourt Tapped As Co-Showrunner For Syfy Drama Series

Mick Betancourt is set as executive producer and co-showrunner of Syfy’s Deadly Class, based on the critically acclaimed Image Comics graphic novel by Rick Remender and Wes Craig. The drama series is slated to premiere on Syfy in 2019.

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Adapted for television by Remender and Miles Orion Feldsott, Deadly Class hails from The Avengers directors Joe and Anthony Russo, Sony Pictures TV and Universal Cable Productions. It’s described as a coming of age journey full of ancient mystery and teen angst. Set in a dark, comic book world against the backdrop of late 80s counter culture, it follows a homeless teen recruited into a storied elite private school where the world’s top crime families send their next generations. Maintaining his moral code while surviving a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques and his own adolescent uncertainties soon proves to be vital.

Benedict Wong, Benjamin Wadsworth, Lana Condor, Maria Gabriela de Faria, Luke Tennie, Liam James and Michel Duval star.

Betancourt joins Remender and Feldsott as EP and the three will share showrunner duties. Also executive producing is Joe Russo, Anthony Russo and Mike Larocca (Spy). Adam Targum (Banshee) from Chipmunk Hill also served as executive producer on the pilot, along with Lee Toland Krieger (The Age of Adaline), who also directed.

Betancourt served as writer and co-producer on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2007-2010. He went on to work as writer and co-executive producer on The Mob Doctor and Necessary Roughness, and most recently consulting producer on Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and co-executive producer-writer on Shots Fired.

Betancourt is repped by UTA, Artists First and Andy Galker. Feldsott is with CAA, Artists First and attorney Robert Koch. Remender is repped by UTA and attorney Caitlin DiMotta.