Set in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by human/animal hybrids, Jeff Lemire’s comic series Sweet Tooth debuted on the scene back in 2009 via Vertigo Entertainment, and Hulu had been attached to bring the comics to the small screen just a couple years ago. We’ve learned via Deadline, however, that the series is now at Netflix.
Netflix has given an eight-episode pick-up to Team Downey and Warner Bros. TV’s hour-long series “Sweet Tooth,” with Jim Mickle (Stake Land, “Hap and Leonard”) still on board to direct. Mickle had also been attached to the Hulu version of the project.
“Sweet Tooth follows the adventures of Gus — part deer, part boy — who leaves his home in the forest to find the outside world ravaged by a cataclysmic event. He joins a ragtag family of humans and animal-children hybrids like himself in search of answers about this new world and the mystery behind his hybrid origins.”
Christian Convery (Beautiful Boy), Nonso Anozie (The Laundromat), Adeel Akhtar (Les Misérables) and Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth) will star, with James Brolin as the voice of the narrator.
Mickle will also write, executive produce and co-showrun “Sweet Tooth” alongside Beth Schwartz (“Arrow”). Producers also include Team Downey’s Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, Amanda Burrell and Evan Moore, as well as Linda Moran.
