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‘Life Is Strange’, ‘Disco Elysium’ Pegged for TV Adaptations From Amazon Studios
Life Is Strange and Disco Elysium fans will be getting their own TV adaptations, courtesy of Amazon. Per Deadline, Amazon Studios has teamed up with Dmitri M. Johnson’s dj2 Entertainment (which co-produced the Sonic the Hedgehog film adaption, along with the sequel) to bring several video game adaptations to the service, including Dontnod Entertainment’s Life Is Strange and ZA/UM’s Disco Elysium.
“The dj2 team has long believed that video games would one day serve as incredible source material for stories told in television and film, and that it was only the lack of love and respect for the artform which previously held successful adaptations back,” said Johnson.
Both adaptations had been in the process of development for a while now, with Shawn Mendes signing on to executive produce the Life Is Strange series, and ZA/UM having inked a deal in 2020 with dj2 for the TV adaptation of Disco Elysium.
Needless to say, there are plenty of film and TV adaptations of video games on the way in some form or another for genre fans. It was announced earlier this week that Netflix will finally be bringing BioShock to life, and of course Paramount+ has its Halo adaptation coming next month (and already has a second season confirmed).
There’s also the System Shock and Hunt: Showdown adaptations headed for new streaming service Binge, HBO’s The Last of Us, the upcoming Twisted Metal adaptation by Sony, and the Eli Roth-directed Borderlands film that finished production last year.
Life Is Strange tells the story of Max Caulfield, an 18-year-old photography student who discovers that she has the ability to rewind time, leading her every choice at the mercy of the butterfly effect. Meanwhile, Disco Elysium centres on a large city still recovering from the effects of a war decades ago. An amnesiac detective has been assigned to a murder case, during which he comes to recall his own past, along with the current forces trying to affect the city.
Based on the 2023 prep school thriller novel by American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, creator Ryan Murphy’s “The Shards” is headed to FX and Hulu this Summer.
Look for “The Shards” to premiere on FX and Hulu on August 5 at 6 p.m. PT.
In the meantime, check out the brand new official poster below.
Igby Rigney (“The Fall of the House of Usher”), Homer Gere (“The Agency”), Graham Campbell, Kaia Gerber (Shell), Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”), Igby Rigney, Wes Bentley, and Hayes Warner star in the upcoming series “The Shards.”
Set in 1981 Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical, dark coming-of-age tale follows a 17-year-old Ellis during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending the character’s world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler.
In the series, Igby Rigney will portray Ellis, and Graham Campbell will play Thom. Homer Gere, son of actor Richard Gere, has been cast as Robert Mallory. Frequent Murphy collaborator Max Winkler (“American Horror Story,“ “Grotesquerie”) is attached to direct.
The series is produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television.
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