Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth is heading to TV

Jeff Lemire’s excellent comic book, Sweet Tooth, is getting a TV adaptation from Team Downey and Warner Bros. Television Developed by Executive Producer/Director Jim Mickle, with Beth Schwartz (Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) as Executive Producer and Co-Showrunner.

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 show will be eight episodes and star 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.

There were originally plans for the show back in 2018 when Hulu was involved, but this new set up is with Netflix.

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