Syfy has put in development The Woods, an hourlong sci-fi drama based on Boom! Studios’ flagship graphic novel series, with San Andreas helmer Brad Peyton producing and set to direct.
Written by Michael Armbruster based on the comic by James Tynion IV and illustrator Michael Dialynas, the thriller is a co-production between Boom! Studios and Peyton’s ASAP Entertainment. It is set in Wisconsin where an entire high-school campus — including the 300 students, teachers, parents and workers who happened to be there at the time – vanishes without a trace and reappears in the middle of the thick woods on the moon of a distant planet. Now their normal lives have suddenly and dramatically changed as they must survive the eerie and dangerous environment while desperately trying to find a way to get back home.
In addition to directing, Peyton will executive produce alongside his producing partner, Jeff Fierson. Also executive producing are Armbruster and Boom’s Ross Richie and Stephen Christy. Josh Levy from Boom will co-executive produce. Universal Cable Productions, where the project was set up a year ago, is the studio.
“We’ve always seen this title as having the potential to be a stand-out sci-fi property and there’s no better team to do that with than with BOOM! and the teams at UCP/Syfy,” said Peyton and Fierson.
Written by Michael Armbruster based on the comic by James Tynion IV and illustrator Michael Dialynas, the thriller is a co-production between Boom! Studios and Peyton’s ASAP Entertainment. It is set in Wisconsin where an entire high-school campus — including the 300 students, teachers, parents and workers who happened to be there at the time – vanishes without a trace and reappears in the middle of the thick woods on the moon of a distant planet. Now their normal lives have suddenly and dramatically changed as they must survive the eerie and dangerous environment while desperately trying to find a way to get back home.
In addition to directing, Peyton will executive produce alongside his producing partner, Jeff Fierson. Also executive producing are Armbruster and Boom’s Ross Richie and Stephen Christy. Josh Levy from Boom will co-executive produce. Universal Cable Productions, where the project was set up a year ago, is the studio.
“We’ve always seen this title as having the potential to be a stand-out sci-fi property and there’s no better team to do that with than with BOOM! and the teams at UCP/Syfy,” said Peyton and Fierson.
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