Life is Strange TV Series Announced by Amazon, With End of the F***ing World Writer as Showrunner

Amazon has greenlit the long-awaited Life is Strange TV adaptation, astir a decennary aft plans to accommodate the crippled were archetypal announced.

Charlie Covell, writer of Channel 4's The of the F***king World and Netflix's Kaos, volition caput the bid arsenic enforcement shaper and showrunner, Variety reported, with video crippled steadfast Square Enix and Amazon MGM Studios some connected board.

When a Life is Strange TV adapatation was archetypal announced backmost successful 2016, lone the series' archetypal crippled had been released — with the anticipation being that it would accommodate said game. And now, years later, this remains the case, with an authoritative blurb for the amusement mentioning the franchise's astir fashionable characters, Max and Chloe.

Covell's adaptation volition travel Max, "a photography student, who discovers she tin rewind clip portion redeeming the beingness of her puerility champion friend, Chloe," the blurb reads. "As she struggles to recognize this caller skill, the brace analyse the mysterious disappearance of a chap student, uncovering a acheronian broadside to their municipality that volition yet unit them to marque an intolerable beingness oregon decease prime that volition interaction them forever."

Exactly however the TV adaptation volition grip the game's choose-your-own-adventure storytelling is different matter, however, and it'll surely beryllium absorbing to spot which of the 2 main endings the bid volition take to follow.

The announcement of the TV bid besides comes astatine an absorbing clip for the Life is Strange franchise overall. Originally developed by Don't Nod, much caller entries successful the bid person been created by Deck Nine Games — though precisely what the aboriginal holds for the franchise present has yet to beryllium announced.

After assorted sequels focusing connected abstracted characters, a belated follow-up to the archetypal crippled arrived successful October 2024 but failed to onshore with semipermanent fans. Life is Strange: Double Exposure saw the instrumentality of Max but not Chloe, thing which angered those who felt their past in-game choices were not being decently represented. Behind the scenes, the crippled suffered a rocky improvement arsenic Deck Nine Games struggled with interior toxicity and crunch. Subsequently, the workplace has been deed by aggregate rounds of layoffs.

"For years we've had truthful galore radical asking america to make a Life is Strange TV show," Square Enix External Studios bosses Jon Brooke and Lee Singleton said today, "and we're truthful pleased to yet spouse with Amazon MGM Studios who we spot volition bash an unthinkable occupation bringing our beingness to life."

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