BOOM! Studios, the publisher behind best-selling Eisner Award-winning comic book franchises such as Lumberjanes, Something is Killing the Children, Once & Future, and Mouse Guard, signed a two-year TV first look deal with Netflix for live action and animated series back in 2020, and we finally have an update on what is sure to be one of their most highly-anticipated projects.
Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, the German creators of cult series Dark and 1899, have been enlisted to develop a series adaptation of James Tynion IV's Something is Killing the Children, which is considered one of the most popular and best-selling titles being published outside DC and Marvel.
Should the series be given the greenlight, Bo Odar and Friese will write, showrun and executive produce, and also direct the pilot. Boom!’s Stephen Christy and Ross Richie will executive produce, while Tynion and Dell’Edera will co-executive produce.
The comics tell the grim tale of "a town plagued by monsters that feast on children, with one teen survivor telling tales that no adult believes. Into this setting enters a mysterious young woman named Erica Slaughter. The woman, who occasionally converses with her stuffed animal, isn’t there to mince words but rather to mince monsters."
A previous adaptation of SIKTC from The Haunting of Hill House and Doctor Sleep team Trevor Macy and Mike Flanagan was in the works back in 2021, but the duo parted ways with the project over creative differences.
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