DC Comics’ Sweet Tooth is set to be adapted for Netflix by Robert Downey Jr.’s production company.
Netflix has ordered eight, one-hour episodes of Sweet Tooth, a live-action drama based on characters created for DC Vertigo by Jeff Lemire, which is to be produced by Team Downey’s Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey, the streaming service announced Tuesday.
The sweetest things are worth waiting for…Susan and I are producing a @Netflix original series, Sweet Tooth, based on the comic by @JeffLemire. Can’t wait to share it with you all. @NXonNetflix pic.twitter.com/Mx2xzNOHjs
— Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) May 12, 2020
According to the official synopsis, the new series will “follow the storybook 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, Nonso Anozie, Adeel Akhtar and Will Forte will star in the family-friendly series, with James Brolin attached to serve as the show’s narrator.
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Hap and Leonard co-creator Jim Mickle and Arrow showrunner Beth Schwartz will both serve as showrunners, executive producers, and writers on the new series. Mickel will also be acting as director. Amanda Burrell of Team Downey and Linda Moran also will executive produce alongside the Downeys. The company’s Evan Moore will produce the series, which hails from Warner Bros. Television.
Arriving at the tail-end of Vertigo’s golden age, Sweet Tooth serves as an early showcase for Jeff Lemire who has since become an industry superstar. Lemire wrote and largely drew the 40-issue epic that is often billed as a combination of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Disney movies like Bambi, so it will be interesting to see it on the small screen alongside several other DC Vertigo adaptations, including CW’s iZombie, AMC’s Preacher and Netflix’s Lucifer.
Originally reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.
Source: IGN.com Sweet Tooth: Robert Downey Jr. Team to Adapt DC Comic into Netflix Series