According to a new report by
Deadline, Netflix has greenlit an animated comedy-series from Sean Hayes and Mike Schur. This series will consist of ten thirty-minute episodes and be called: Q-Force.
Hayes (best known for
Will & Grace) and Todd Milliner’s (
Grimm) production company Hazy Mills, as well as Gabe Liedman (
Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Mike Schur’s (
The Office,
The Good Place,
Brooklyn Nine-Nine)'s Fremulon and Universal TV.
The animated series will be adult-oriented and star an LGBTQ cast of characters. These characters will be super-spies, led by a handsome secret agent (a la James Bond) who are "constantly underestimated by their colleagues, the members of Q-Force have to prove themselves time and again as they embark on extraordinary professional (and personal) adventures."
Millner had this to say in regards to the series:
A spy TV series is so tough, because they’re so expensive. We were thinking how do we get to do gay spy and every week, and the only way to do that is animated, because we can do all of the fun parts of a James Bond film. We can travel, we can have big chase sequences; animation is allowing us that freedom.
Following up Millner; Hayes added: “Also, I don’t know that the studios would greenlight a feature with a leading character that’s gay in that genre. Hopefully they will, but that doesn’t seem like right now.” Millner again spoke: “It does seem like it’s one of the last bastions of masculinity that seems like we can’t break the rule of who gets to play that part."
Netflix's Q-Force doesn't currently have a set release date.