Amazon greenlights a Life is Unusual collection adaptation

With Hollywood online game variations surging, it was solely a matter of time earlier than Life is Unusual received the remedy. In any case, even platformer and sandbox game variations have (shockingly) discovered success on this new period. A well-written journey recreation looks as if a a lot shorter leap. Amazon announced on Friday that Prime Video has ordered a collection primarily based on the 2015 recreation.

Like Don’t Nod’s classic, the collection will mix angsty teenage realism with supernatural components and ethical decisions. And Amazon’s teaser synopsis factors to a well-known storyline. “The story follows Max, a images scholar, who discovers she will rewind time whereas saving the lifetime of her childhood finest buddy, Chloe,” the announcement reads. “As she struggles to grasp this new talent, the pair examine the mysterious disappearance of a fellow scholar, uncovering a darkish facet to their city that can in the end power them to make an not possible life-or-death alternative that can impression them eternally.”

British author and actor Charlie Covell (Finish of the F***ing World, KAOS) will chart the collection’ inventive course. They will function creator, govt producer and showrunner. Story Kitchen’s Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg and Timothy I. Stevenson will govt produce the present. Sq. Enix and LuckyChap are all a part of the mission, too. Amazon MGM Studios will produce it.

Covell desires the collection to attraction to each newcomers and followers of the video games. “It is an enormous honor to be adapting Life Is Unusual for Amazon MGM Studios,” they mentioned in Amazon’s press launch. “I’m an enormous fan of the sport, and I am thrilled to be working with the unimaginable groups at Sq. Enix, Story Kitchen and LuckyChap. I am unable to wait to share Max and Chloe’s story with fellow gamers and new audiences alike.”

Amazon has been an keen participant on this new “Video Game Adaptations That Don’t Suck” period. Earlier this week, it introduced that Recreation of Thrones’ Sophie Turner will step into Lara Croft’s boots for its upcoming Tomb Raider series. Season two of Prime Video’s acclaimed Fallout arrives later this 12 months. Its first trailer teases the show’s first appearance of the sport’s dreaded Deathclaws.

In the meantime, again within the gaming world, Sq. Enix remains to be churning out Life is Unusual titles. In 2024, Max returned in Double Exposure, the primary direct sequel to the unique recreation’s story. Do not Nod spun out its personal non secular sequel to the collection, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, earlier this 12 months.