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DC’s “Deathstroke” Gets His Own Animated Series at CW Seed; ‘Saw’ Producers Make “The Pledge”
CW has their own digital platform now and it’s called CW Seed.
Deadline reports that, during the CW upfront presentation, the network’s President Mark Pedowitz unveiled two upcoming series for CW Seed, animated series “Deathstroke”, centered on the DC superhero, and “The Pledge”, which comes from the producers of the SAW horror franchise.
The announcement of the “Deathstroke” animated series follows the introduction of the character, the fan-favorite assassin and archenemy of “Teen Titans” leader Dick Grayson, on the live-action DC Universe series Titans, where he is played by Esai Morales.
The character is well known to fans of the popular “Teen Titans” animated series from Cartoon Network as well as the show’s 2018 tie-in feature film “Teen Titans Go! to the Movies”. Deathstroke has also been portrayed by Manu Bennett in 36 episodes of The CW series “Arrow” while Joe Manganiello (“True Blood”) appeared as the assassin in the 2017 feature film Justice League but only with an uncredited cameo.
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“I’m the Grim Reaper” – Sam Raimi Teams with ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Writers on Gory, Funny Webtoon Adaptation
The Wattpad/Webtoons and Grave Weaver-created series “I’m the Grim Reaper” is nearing its 200th episode, and it’s also getting a new TV series adaptation with talented names behind it. Deadline reports that celebrated filmmaker Sam Raimi is teaming up with 10 Cloverfield Lane scribes Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken on the new series.
The series follows “Scarlet, a young woman who wakes up in the ninth circle of hell with no idea how she got there. Satan offers to send Scarlet back to Earth if she’ll work as his reaper. But it doesn’t take long for Scarlet to realize that Satan’s offer is even worse than she feared.”
The story is said to fit perfectly into “Raimi’s wheelhouse, striking a deft balance between scares, gore and humor.”
Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi will executive produce the series with Weaver, who’ll also team on the development process. Raimi may be most known for his Spider-Man and Evil Dead movies, but the filmmaker has been busy behind the scenes producing. More recently, Raimi produced this week’s action brawler Boy Kills World and last year’s 65, with Don’t Move on the way.
The “I’m the Grim Reaper” webtoon launched in 2019, delving into the humor and horrors of reaping souls in Hell. That it’s on the cusp of airing its 200th episode means no shortage of story and mythology for Campbell and Stuecken to pull from.
Stay tuned for additional details on this new series as they arrive.
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