Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth Goes Straight To Series On Netflix

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Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth, published as a comic series by Vertigo/ DC, has just been picked up for a full series. Here’s a few details from DC themselves…

Announced earlier this week by Executive Producer Robert Downey, Jr., the wistful post-apocalyptic adventure has received a direct-to-series order from Netflix, making Sweet Tooth the third series on the outlet to be based on a former Vertigo comic.

Described as a “broad appeal, family-friendly, storybook adventure,” the in-the-works adaptation tells the story of Gus—a hybrid child who’s part deer and 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.

Netflix’s Sweet Tooth will star Christian Convery (Legion, Descendants 3, Playing with Fire) and Nonso Anozie (Zoo, Game of Thrones). Rounding out the core cast are Will Forte, Adeel Akhtar and James Brolin. The show itself will be managed by co-showrunners Jim Mickle (Hap and Leonard) and Beth Schwartz (Arrow). It’ll be executive produced by Team Downey’s Robert Downey, Jr., Susan Downey and Amanda Burrell, and Linda Moran, and produced by Team Downey’s Evan Moore.