Amazon MGM Studios has announced that its Life is Strange TV series is officially going ahead with a greenlight order. The TV series is based on the game franchise and has been ordered straight to series. The show’s creator and showrunner is Charlie Covell, who previously adapted The End of the F***king World and Kaos.
Square Enix, which owns the rights to the game series, is producing the TV show, along with Sonic the Hedgehog movie producers Story Kitchen and Margot Robbie’s production company, LuckyChap.
“It’s a huge honor to be adapting Life Is Strange for Amazon MGM Studios,” Covell said in a statement. “I am a massive fan of the game, and I’m thrilled to be working with the incredible teams at Square Enix, Story Kitchen and LuckyChap.”
The story of the TV series will follow Max and Chloe, the two main characters from the first game. The conceit in the game is that Max can rewind time, but obviously a lot of horrible stuff happens.
“I can’t wait to share Max and Chloe’s story with fellow players and new audiences alike,” Covell said.
A TV show based on Life is Strange has been in the works for nearly a decade, but this is the first time it’s actually receiving an official order to me made. In 2021, it was revealed that singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes was in the mix to oversee the music in the show, but it’s unclear if that’s still the case.
It’s been a busy week for news about film and TV video game adaptations. Before this, Paramount announced a Call of Duty movie, Amazon announced Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in its Tomb Raider series, Netflix cancelled The Legend of Lara Croft, and the Street Fighter movie got a release date and cast.
Life is Strange joins not only the Tomb Raider series at Amazon, but also a long-in-development God of War series and Season 2 of Fallout. Amazon also has the Mass Effect TV show and the Wolfenstein TV show.
The Life is Strange series was created by French developer Dontnod and launched in 2015. It spawned multiple sequels, the latest of which was 2024’s Life is Strange: Double Exposure from Deck Nine.
