Netflix has teamed with Al Gough and Miles Millar, creators and executive producers of the streamer’s most popular English-language series, Wednesday, for Grim, an adult animated series based on Boom! Studios’ horror-fantasy comic books by Stephanie Phillips and Flaviano, Deadline has learned. Gough and Millar are set to executive produce the project, now in development, alongside Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Supervising Director on one of Netflix’s signature adult animated series, the Emmy-winning Love, Death + Robots.
A character-driven supernatural saga, Grim follows Jessica Harrow, a newly recruited Reaper tasked with ferrying souls to the afterlife. Unlike her fellow Reapers, Jessica has no memory of her death or life before. Her search for answers pulls her deeper into the unseen architecture of the afterlife, revealing hidden forces, cosmic secrets, and her shocking personal connection to Death itself.
Millar and Gough executive produce for Millar/Gough Ink alongside the company’s Head of Film Aaron Schmidt and Yuh Nelson. Stephen Christy and Adam Yoelin executive produce for Boom! Studios, with Mette Norkjaer co-executive producing. Phillips and Flaviano also co-executive produce.
A rep for Netflix declined comment.
Grim, praised for its genre-blending mythology and visual style, debuted in 2022 and quickly became one of the highest-selling launches in Boom! Studios history. Its 25-issue run concludes this month. Founded in 2005, Boom! Studios is behind several comics that have gotten TV series adaptation, most recently action series Butterfly starring Daniel Dae Kim, which launched on Prime Video in August.
Gough and Millar are the creators, executive producers and showrunners of Wednesday, whose two seasons to date are No. 1 and No.4 on Netflix’s most popular English series list. The duo’s TV credits also include the the WB/CW hit Smallville, AMC’s Into the Badlands, and MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles. In features, Gough and Millar have written and produced Spider-Man 2, Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and, most recently, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. They are repped by WME and Gendler Kelly & Cunningham.
Yuh Nelson directed multiple episodes of Netflix’s short-form dystopian sci-fi animated series Love, Death + Robots. She began her career at DreamWorks Animation, where she served as Head of Story on the original Kung Fu Panda and directed Kung Fu Panda 2 and Kung Fu Panda 3, becoming the first woman to solely direct an animated feature for a major studio and landing a Best Animated Feature Film Oscar nomination for Kung Fu Panda 2. Yuh Nelson is repped by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Hansen Jacobson Teller.
From Deadline.com