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 govt produce the sequence with Weaver, who’ll additionally staff on the event course of.
I’m the Grim Reaper facilities on Scarlet, a younger girl who wakes up within the ninth circle of hell with no thought how she acquired there. Devil gives to ship Scarlet again to Earth if she’ll work as his reaper. However it doesn’t take lengthy for Scarlet to understand that Devil’s supply is even worse than she feared. The story slots completely into Raimi’s wheelhouse, hanging a deft stability between scares, gore and humor.
Campbell & Stuecken offered their procedural The Interpreter to NBC final season, with Michael Peterson showrunning and Morris Chestnut connected to star. This season, they offered Borrowed Time to Fox with McG connected to direct and David Slack showrunning. On the characteristic facet, Campbell & Stuecken have John Woo’s The Killer in post-production at Peacock and they’re scripting an untitled horror/thriller for The Hideaway. The duo are repped by Verve and legal professional Nick Marell.
Wattpad Webtoon Studios was based in 2019 as a fan-driven studio harnessing widespread IP from the web publishers Wattpad and Webtoon to create content material for movie and TV with a built-in viewers. Latest and upcoming releases embrace Float, starring Robbie Amell and Andrea Bang; By My Window: You, the ultimate movie in Netflix’s By My Window trilogy primarily based on Ariana Godoy’s Wattpad webnovel, which has now spent greater than a month within the streamer’s World Non-English Movies High 10; and the upcoming movie Boot Camp, an adaptation of Gina Musa’s Wattpad webnovel, starring Riverdale alum Drew Ray Tanner.