Netflix Orders ‘Sweet Tooth’ Series Based On DC/Vertigo Comic Book
Netflix has handed a series order to ‘Sweet Tooth‘, an adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic book, from Team Downey and Warner Bros. Television it has been announced.
‘Sweet Tooth’ is the broad appeal, family-friendly, storybook adventure of Gus – part deer, part boy – who leaves his home in the forest to find the outside world ravaged by a cataclysmic event. He joins a ragtag family of humans and animal-children hybrids like himself in search of answers about this new world and the mystery behind his hybrid origins.
The series stars Christian Convery (‘Beautiful Boy’, ‘Tiger Rising’, ‘Playing With Fire’), Nonso Anozie (‘The Laundromat’, ‘Zoo’, ‘Game of Thrones’), Adeel Akhtar (‘Les Misérables [TV series]’, ‘Victoria & Abdul’, ‘The Big Sick’) and Will Forte (‘The Last Man on Earth’, ‘Saturday Night Live’), with James Brolin (‘Life in Pieces’, ‘Amityville Horror’, ‘Westworld’) as the voice of the narrator.
Based on characters created for DC by Jeff Lemire, ‘Sweet Tooth’ comes from Jim Mickle (‘Hap and Leonard’, ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’, ‘Cold In July’) and Beth Schwartz (‘Arrow’, ‘DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’) who serve as writers, co-showrunners and exec producers. Team Downey’s Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey and Amanda Burrell, alongside Linda Moran also exec produce. Team Downey in association with Warner Bros. Television are the studios.
This isn’t the first time an adaptation of ‘Sweet Tooth’ has been attempted. It was previously piloted at Hulu in 2018, but they opted not to move forward. Netflix has now ordered eight, one-hour episodes. Adaptations of DC’s Vertigo imprint have previously done well converting to screen. Other Vertigo adaptations include ‘iZombie’, ‘Lucifer’ and ‘Preacher’.
‘Sweet Tooth‘ Season 1 will air on Netflix worldwide (time/date TBC, but we don’t expect it before 2021.)
