Amazon MGM Studios has ordered a brand new fantasy collection for Prime Video, Lore Olympus. Julia Cooperman serves as showrunner, author, and government producer on the brand new grownup animated collection, an adaptation of the worldwide hit WEBTOON webcomic by Rachel Smythe. Govt producers from WEBTOON Productions and The Jim Henson Firm are additionally on board.
Per Amazon, “In Lore Olympus, witness what the gods do…after darkish. The friendships and the lies, the gossip and the wild events, and naturally, forbidden love. As a result of it seems, the gods aren’t so totally different from us in spite of everything, particularly in the case of their issues.” Particularly, Lore Olympus will concentrate on a retelling of “The Taking of Persephone” in a “fashionable and immersive” method.
Lore Olympus has amassed a present complete of 1.8 billion world views on WEBTOON. “With gorgeous art work, wealthy storytelling, and unforgettable characters, Lore Olympus and Rachel Smythe have constructed a passionate world fandom clamoring for extra,” says WEBTOON Productions president David Madden. Try an illustration from Lore Olympus under:
Showrunner Julia Cooperman has labored as a author on numerous underrated TV exhibits, together with the AMC+ grownup animated sci-fi collection Pantheon (accessible to stream on Netflix), in addition to the prematurely canceled Disney+ collection Willow. Cooperman’s TV writing credit additionally embody Colony, The Winchesters, Jupiter’s Legacy, and Absentia.
Cooperman takes on Lore Olympus following a increase in grownup animation over the previous few years, which Amazon MGM has made a number of main contributions to. Whereas Netflix outlined a brand new period with Arcane, among the best animated fantasy TV exhibits ever, Prime Video has delivered Hazbin Lodge, The Legend of Vox Machina, Invincible, and The Second Greatest Hospital within the Galaxy.
Based mostly on the precedent set by these collection, Lore Olympus will possible find yourself that includes some main expertise among the many voice forged. Lore Olympus is about to premiere on Prime Video in additional than 240 nations and territories, although it doesn’t but have a launch window, and will turn out to be thought to be one other among the best grownup animated TV exhibits in current historical past, if its creative model is recent and its story holds up.
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