ITV's new drama series Jekyll & Hyde has been billed as a "superhero story" by its chief writer, Charlie Higson.
The cast and crew of the new paranormal adventure attended a panel at MCM London Comic Con on Saturday (May 23).
Former Fast Show writer and performer Higson said: "It's a superhero Jekyll & Hyde - about Dr Jekyll's grandson, who doesn't know anything about who he is or why he's like he is.
He added that the original book, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is "the prototype superhero story - it's a guy with an alter ego.
"He can turn into someone else, nobody knows it's him and he can do all the things he dreams about, so I thought there was a lot you could do with it that was new and exciting."
Higson described the show's Hyde as "sexy", "good-looking" and "dangerous" - with Da Vinci's Demons actor Tom Bateman playing the dual-role of Hyde and his mild-mannered alter ego Jekyll.
"We didn't want Hyde to be a horrible monster with fangs and wild hair," Higson explained. "He's a really good fighter, he's invulnerable, he's really fast and he can regenerate quickly."
Higson cited classic 1960s' shows - including The Prisoner, The Avengers and The Champions - as inspiration for Jekyll & Hyde, along with the Indiana Jones movies.
"One of our models for making it was Indiana Jones," he admitted. "You've got action, you've got adventure, you've got humour . . .
"But there's also quite a lot of horror in those films, and you can use the humour to stop the horror from getting too heavy - particularly bearing in mind the sort of audience were looking for with the show.
Jekyll & Hyde - also starring Richard E Grant and Coronation Street's Natalie Gumede - will launch on ITV in autumn 2015.
