BOOM! Studios have announced that Netflix has commissioned Baran Bo Adar and Jante Friese, acclaimed creators of “Dark” and “1899,” to develop a television series adaptation of BOOM! Studios’ hit comic book series “Something Is Killing The Children.” The project comes through Netflix’s first-look deal with BOOM! Studios, and will be the first TV series from Adar and Friese under a newly-signed multi-year Netflix overall deal.
“Something Is Killing The Children” is centered around the town of Archer’s Peak, where children start going missing, and the ones that make it back tell terrible stories—impossible stories of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, Erica Slaughter, a monster hunter who believes the children and claims to see what they can see.
Co-created by writer James Tynion IV (“Batman”) and illustrator Werther Dell’Edera, “Something Is Killing The Children” is one of the most successful original comic book series of the last five years, winning multiple Eisner Awards, including 2022’s Best Continuing Series award, and selling over 2 million copies worldwide. The first issue of the comic series’ spin-off, “House of Slaughter,” sold over 500,000 copies and became the second highest-selling non-Marvel non-DC debut title of the last 25 years.
“Bo and Jante have spent the last few years making some of the best genre television in the world,” said Something is Killing the Children co-creator James Tynion IV. “I couldn’t be more thrilled that they’re working to bring Erica Slaughter to life.”
BOOM! Studios’ Stephen Christy and Ross Richie will executive produce the adaptation, with James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera co-executive producing.
