These things are processed as a translation from one medium to another, and you gotta get on into the strengths of each. But for the show, it seemed like it was more audience-friendly to just get the premise up front.
In the book, we play a lot more with the idea that Happy's completely a hallucination, and that Nick is actually just either suffering from the DTs or he's taken one too many morphine shots. Way back, early in the pilot, everybody in the studio and the network kinda just wanted, 'Can we get to the reveal quickly?' And as you say, that doesn't happen until halfway through the book. That's one of those decisions that you make. CinemaBlend recently spoke with comic co-creator Grant Morrison, who's also behind the TV show, and here's what he said about that big change. Fans of the comic series probably had a shock at the premiere's end, when it was revealed that Happy's human friend Hailey is actually Nick's daughter, a twist that came quite a bit later in the snow-covered source material. By a tiny blue horse called Happy.With its just-debuted series Happy!, Syfy delivered TV's weirdest and wildest new comic book adaptation, boasting the always captivating Christopher Meloni as Nick Sax and Patton Oswalt as the voice of the titular, hyper-optimistic horse. With a hit gone wrong, a bullet in his side, the cops and the mob on his tail, and a monstrous child killer in a Santa suit on the loose, Nick and his world will be changed forever this Christmas. “Meet Nick Sax,” reads the official synopsis of Happy!, “a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man, adrift in a stinking twilight world of casual murder, soulless sex, eczema and betrayal. RELATED: Exclusive Marauders Clip Featuring Christopher Meloni and Adrian Grenier The offbeat tale blends comedy and violence and will see Meloni play Nick Sax, a hitman who winds up teaming with a little girl’s imaginary friend (a flying blue unicorn named Happy) to save the girl’s life. According to Deadline, Christopher Meloni ( Wet Hot American Summer, Man of Steel) will take the lead role in the upcoming television adaptation of the 2012 Image Comics miniseries by Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson.
Syfy has found a star for their upcoming Happy! series. Christopher Meloni will play a hitman forced to team up with a girl’s imaginary friend on Syfy’s Happy!
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