Overview
- The streamer won the project in a competitive bidding process and acquired it from longtime rights holder New Regency.
- Schoenbrun will create, write and direct the one-hour drama based on Charles Burns’ acclaimed graphic novel.
- Executive producers include Plan B, Erin Levy, Charles Burns, and New Regency’s Yariv Milchan, Arnon Milchan, Natalie Lehmann and Laura Delahaye.
- Netflix’s official logline follows a small-town myth about a “bug” that turns teens into monsters, exiling them to the woods where a serial killer targets the infected.
- No release date has been announced, and the series follows decades of unrealized film attempts by filmmakers including Alexandre Aja, David Fincher and Rick Famuyiwa.