Popular Video Game Gets Live-Action TV Show at Prime Video
Following the critical success of Fallout, Amazon MGM Studios has officially found the next video game franchise that it will be adapting for Prime Video. This comes after it was recently confirmed that Game of Thrones vet Sophie Turner has been tapped to play Lara Croft in the studio’s long-in-development Tomb Raider series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
What video game series is Prime Video adapting into a show?
According to Variety, Amazon Prime Video has granted a series order to the live-action TV adaptation of Life is Strange, based on Square Enix’s popular adventure video game franchise. Before Amazon acquired the game’s TV rights, Legendary and Hulu originally attempted to produce the show in 2017, with singer Shawn Mendes even boarding the project as an executive producer.
“In the show, a photography student, who discovers she can rewind time while saving the life of her childhood best friend, Chloe,” reads the official logline. “As she struggles to understand this new skill, the pair investigates the mysterious disappearance of a fellow student, uncovering a dark side to their town that will ultimately force them to make an impossible life-or-death choice that will impact them forever.”
The project will be written and executive-produced by showrunner Charlie Covell. They are best known for writing Netflix’s hit coming-of-age dark comedy The End of the F***ing World. Executive producers are Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg, and Timothy I. Stevenson for Story Kitchen. It is a production by Square Enix, Story Kitchen, Amazon MGM Studios, and Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap.
“We’ve been huge fans of the visionary Charlie Covell for years, so partnering with them on the adaptation of Life is Strange is truly a dream come true,” LuckyChap said in a statement. “Charlie is an exceptional steward of revered IP, and we feel incredibly fortunate to have them at the helm of such an original, beloved, and culturally resonant video game. We’re also deeply grateful to be collaborating with our friends at Amazon MGM Studios, Story Kitchen, and Square Enix, and can’t wait to bring Chloe, Max, and Arcadia Bay to life.”
This announcement comes nearly a year after Square Enix released the video game franchise’s fourth installment, titled Life Is Strange: Double Exposure. In our review of the game, we gave Double Exposure a 7/10 score, because it isn’t “as nearly as charming as Max Caulfield’s first adventure, nor is it as well-written as Deck Nine’s prior game, True Colors.”
(Source: Variety)
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