Key takeaways
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Charlie Covell will write and serve as showrunner and executive producer.
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Produced with Square Enix, Story Kitchen and LuckyChap; Amazon MGM Studios is producing.
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Story Kitchen’s executive producers include Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg and Timothy I. Stevenson.
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Early logline tracks the first game’s setup with Max and Chloe.
The series
Amazon has given a series order to Life Is Strange, adapting the award-winning narrative game. The project is set up as a live-action drama at Prime Video.
Creative team and partners
Charlie Covell (The End of the F**ing World*, Kaos) will write the series and act as showrunner and executive producer. The series is being produced with the game’s publisher Square Enix, Story Kitchen and LuckyChap, with Amazon MGM Studios producing. Story Kitchen partners Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg and Timothy I. Stevenson are attached as executive producers.
What it adapts
Initial materials indicate the show will follow the core premise of the original 2015 game: Max, a photography student, discovers she can rewind time after saving her best friend Chloe. The pair investigate a classmate’s disappearance as darker forces in their town come to light, culminating in a choice that carries lasting consequences.
Background
A Life Is Strange screen adaptation has been floated before, including a digital series announcement in 2016. Those earlier iterations did not move forward. The new Amazon order marks the property’s first formally greenlit series.
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This article is based on today’s official coverage and partner announcements. Further details such as casting, episode count and release timing have not been announced at this stage. (Variety).
