Amazon Greenlights A Life Is Strange Series Adaptation

With Hollywood video crippled adaptations surging, it was only a matter of clip earlier Life is Strange sewage nan treatment. After all, moreover platformer and sandbox game adaptations person (shockingly) recovered occurrence successful this caller era. A well-written escapade crippled seems for illustration a overmuch shorter leap. Amazon announced connected Friday that Prime Video has ordered a bid based connected nan 2015 game.

Like Don't Nod's classic, nan bid will blend angsty teenage realism pinch supernatural elements and civilized choices. And Amazon's teaser synopsis points to a acquainted storyline. "The communicative follows Max, a photography student, who discovers she tin rewind clip while redeeming nan life of her puerility champion friend, Chloe," nan announcement reads. "As she struggles to understand this caller skill, nan brace analyse nan mysterious disappearance of a chap student, uncovering a acheronian broadside to their municipality that will yet unit them to make an intolerable life-or-death prime that will effect them forever."

British writer and character Charlie Covell (End of nan F***ing World, KAOS) will floor plan nan series' imaginative course. They'll service arsenic creator, executive shaper and showrunner. Story Kitchen's Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg and Timothy I. Stevenson will executive nutrient nan show. Square Enix and LuckyChap are each portion of nan project, too. Amazon MGM Studios will nutrient it.

Covell wants nan bid to entreaty to some newcomers and fans of nan games. "It's a immense grant to beryllium adapting Life Is Strange for Amazon MGM Studios," they said successful Amazon's property release. "I americium a monolithic instrumentality of nan game, and I'm thrilled to beryllium moving pinch nan unthinkable teams astatine Square Enix, Story Kitchen and LuckyChap. I can't hold to stock Max and Chloe's communicative pinch chap players and caller audiences alike."

Amazon has been an eager subordinate successful this caller "Video Game Adaptations That Don't Suck" era. Earlier this week, it announced that Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner will step into Lara Croft's boots for its upcoming Tomb Raider series. Season 2 of Prime Video's acclaimed Fallout arrives later this year. Its first trailer teases nan show's first appearance of nan game's dreaded Deathclaws.

Meanwhile, backmost successful nan gaming world, Square Enix is still churning retired Life is Strange titles. In 2024, Max returned successful Double Exposure, nan first nonstop sequel to nan original game's story. Don't Nod spun retired its ain belief sequel to nan series, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, earlier this year.