Another Marvel comic book series is getting a live-action television adaptation: Cloak and Dagger.
Freeform, the cable channel formerly known as ABC Family, recently put in a straight-to-series order for the adaptation.
In Marvel Comics, Cloak and Dagger follows two runaway teenagers, Ty (Cloak) and Tandy (Dagger) who meet in New York City. Ty ran away from home after his stuttering problem prevented him from saving a friend from getting shot. Tandy ran away from her privileged home because her supermodel mother wouldn't spend time with her. The two quickly become friends, but then fall to the whims of a scientist who experiments on them and eventually gives them superpowers.
Tyrone becomes Cloak, a superhero enveloped by darkness, with powers that let him create a portal to the realm of darkness and send people there. He can also teleport through that dimension. His powers, though, have a side effect: he has a constant hunger for light.
Tandy becomes Dagger, a superhero who glows with a bright light. She can create daggers of light that she uses to drain life from others, but can also cure drug addictions. Her light also helps Cloak fight his hunger when it becomes too much for him to bear.
Together, the two teens declare war on drug crimes in the city and start taking down drug dealers, while also providing help to their fellow runaway teens. Eventually, Ty and Tandy fall in love, which is why the television adaptation is referred to as "a superhero love story."
Although Marvel Studios and ABC Signature Studios will co-produce the series, no other details have surfaced about the show yet. Freeform hasn't even attached writers to the project.
Cloak and Dagger is perfect for Freeform, which has a target audience of young adults, so it's likely that the love story between the two teens from opposite sides of the track will serve as the show's focus.
This is the first Marvel series for the Disney-owned Freeform, as it follows in the footsteps of ABC - also owned by Disney - which airs Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter and has plans for the Mockingbird-based series, Marvel's Most Wanted.
