Overview

• The drama series based on Dark Horse Comics’ Barb Wire is in early development with UCP and Dark Horse Entertainment, according to reporting from Deadline and TheWrap.
• Pamela Anderson and her son Brandon Thomas Lee are attached as executive producers for And-Her-Sons Productions, with Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg executive producing for Dark Horse Entertainment.
• Sources say Anderson will not reprise the title role and it is too soon to know whether she might appear on screen if the project advances.
• The adaptation is being positioned with a different feel than the 1996 film and centers bounty hunter Barbara Kopetski in the tough streets of Steel Harbor.
• Dark Horse plans The Barb Wire Compendium for February 2026, collecting the character’s mainline comics and offering a potential publishing tie-in.