A contemporary re-imagining of the classic Oscar Wilde novel, "The
Picture of Dorian Gray," Gray, Vol. 2 is the conclusion of the
supernatural revenge thriller about an alluring but violent woman,
Dorian Gray, who seeks vengeance on a cabal of powerful men who wronged
her years ago; and of the straight-laced African American detective with
a past of his own, who is tasked with stopping her.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's only novel and one of the
classics of gothic literature, is the tale of the most beautiful man of
his age, who sells his soul and his conscience in exchange for eternal
youth, beauty and power -- and who spends his life murdering, raping and
corrupting. All the time in his attic, his picture degrades and rots.
GRAY takes that basic idea but flips its moral framework and gender
archetypes: our DORIAN GRAY is a Millennial social media princess who
drifts through the coolest cliques of NYC, breaking hearts and turning
heads wherever she goes. But Dorian has secrets. For one thing, she's a
violent criminal. For another, she's an immortal creature of magic, who
commits violent burglaries and assaults some of New York's most powerful
men.
30 years ago, whilst an innocent student, Dorian was sexually assaulted
by these men. In that moment that she became something both more and
less than human. 30 years later, but not a day older, she's ready for
her revenge. Then Dorian meets Detective HANK WUTAN, the
African-American NYPD detective assigned to stop these crimes,
struggling with his own loyalties as a Black cop in the era of Defund
the Police. Despite the fact that Dorian is his suspect number one, and
he is effectively working for her abusers, they fall for each other,
hard.
GRAY takes Wilde's classic novel and reinvents it as a tale of cathartic
revenge for the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter era, a violent fantasy
about how powerful, super-rich white men don't always win, how the
powerless can find justice, and about how a murderous demon and a
law-abiding detective can be soul mates.
