EXCLUSIVE: Wattpad/Webtoons has employed Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken (10 Cloverfield Lane, Horizon Line) to adapt I’m the Grim Reaper from the webtoon created by Grave Weaver.
Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi will government produce the collection with Weaver, who’ll additionally staff on the event course of.
I’m the Grim Reaper facilities on Scarlet, a younger lady who wakes up within the ninth circle of hell with no thought how she obtained there. Satan gives to ship Scarlet again to Earth if she’ll work as his reaper. But it doesn’t take lengthy for Scarlet to understand that Satan’s supply is even worse than she feared. The story slots completely into Raimi’s wheelhouse, putting a deft steadiness between scares, gore and humor.
Campbell & Stuecken offered their procedural The Interpreter to NBC final season, with Michael Peterson showrunning and Morris Chestnut hooked up to star. This season, they offered Borrowed Time to Fox with McG hooked up to direct and David Slack showrunning. On the function facet, Campbell & Stuecken have John Woo’s The Killer in post-production at Peacock and are scripting an untitled horror thriller for The Hideaway. The duo are repped by Verve and lawyer Nick Marell.
Wattpad Webtoon Studios was based in 2019 as a fan-driven studio harnessing in style IP from the net publishers Wattpad and Webtoon to create content material for movie and TV with a built-in viewers. Recent and upcoming releases embody Float, starring Robbie Amell and Andrea Bang; Through My Window: Looking at You, the ultimate movie in Netflix’s Through My Window trilogy based mostly on Ariana Godoy’s Wattpad webnovel, which has spent greater than a month within the streamer’s Global Non-English Films Top 10; and the upcoming movie Boot Camp, an adaptation of Gina Musa’s Wattpad webnovel starring Riverdale alum Drew Ray Tanner.
Content Source: deadline.com