Lady Killer began as a comic series in January 2015, published by Dark Horse Comics. It was written by Joëlle Jones and Jamie S. Rich, illustrated by Joëlle Jones, and colored by Laura Allerd. The series was really critically acclaimed; it even had a nomination at the Eisner Awards as Best Limited Series in 2016. Joëlle Jones has worked on many covers for various Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including Batman and Catwoman, while Jamie S. Rich has worked on various graphic novels, and he is currently serving as Executive Editorial Director at IDW Publishing.

Dark Horse Comics is not as big as Marvel or DC Comics, but it had many successes, in print and on screen, with projects like the Hellboy movies by Guillermo Del Toro back in 2004 and 2008, as well as the not-as-acclaimed 2019 reboot, or the excellent American Splendor in 2003. They had also success with The Umbrella Academy series on Netflix, Resident Alien on SyFy, and many more. We love superhero movies and comics as much as the next person, but comics are a medium, not a genre. There are countless comics for every taste out there, we can not consume only stories with super-powered individuals in flashy costumes punching each other, sometimes we need a story about a classy housewife who is also a professional killer in her spare time.

Here’s everything we know about Netflix’s adaptation of Lady Killer.

Lady Killer: The Plot

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Josie Schuller is a young, attractive woman. She’s married to Gene Schuller, has two little daughters, and they live together with his mother, an immigrant from Germany. Living in America in the 1960s, Josie is a loving and caring mother and wife in a middle-class family. She has a good name in her good neighborhood, she keeps her house in order, she takes care of her elderly mother-in-law, and she lives a double life.

Behind the back of her family, she is a killer, she takes jobs from the mafia, and she is really good at it. She also enjoys it, but not in a sadistic way, more like in a way that she likes the thrill of the hunt and gets pride from a well-done job. This does not mean that her family is just for the cover. She cares for her children and her husband and does not like that she has to lie to them. One day her employers decide that she is a liability, and they have to get rid of her. She can not just quit a job like that. But, as we said before, she is really good at her job and she will not make it easy for them to take her out of the picture.

Lady Killer: The Cast & Crew

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The main part of Josie is set to be portrayed by Blake Lively. She is well known for her parts in Gossip Girl, The Age of Adaline, The Shallows, and many more. We do not have more information about any more actors cast for all the other parts. Blake Lively is not just going to star in the movie, she is also a producer on the project.

Taking the role of adapting the comic into a script is on the shoulders of Diablo Cody. She is known for her job in 2007s Juno, the movie she won an Oscar for, but she has also worked on 2013’s Paradise, 2011’s Young Adult, One Mississippi, for which she was also the creator, and many more.

The Lady Killer movie will be produced by Mike Richardson, Keith Goldberg of Dark Horse Entertainment, and Lively and Kate Vorhoff.

Release Date and Everything Else We Know

We have no definite release date for the movie yet. We know that it is going to be streaming on Netflix when it finally hits our screens.

Lady Killer is a great comic. A killer living a double life is not really an original concept, but originality is way overrated. As Terry Pratchett said in Lords and Ladies, “Style, that’s what people remember!” Lady Killer has style for days, with the sixties aesthetic, the stylish clothes, and the visceral violence. Joëlle Jones’ artwork is stunning to look at, and we truly believe that it can be translated beautifully on the screen if it is given to the hands of some visionary director who will respect the source material.

We joked a little bit, the concept is just that, a concept, even if it is the most original thing in the world, a bad execution will ruin it. Lady Killer on the other hand executes its concept so expertly, it looks like magic. It touches on sexism and classism, explores themes of history and generational trauma, and it delivers exciting action sequences. If it is half as good as the comic it is based on, it is going to be a great film.