James Stoteraux, Chad Fiveash Kevin Tancharoen Jason Kempin/Getty Images; Charley Gallay/Getty Images Logo text Disney+ and Disney Channel may be giving a new home to The Last Kids on Earth.
The two outlets have ordered a pilot for a live-action series based on the best-selling books by Max Brallier. Chad Fiveash and James Stoteraux (The Vampire Diaries, Gotham Knights) are writing the pilot and will serve as showrunners, and Kevin Tancharoen (The Brothers Sun, Agents of SHIELD) is set to direct.
Should it go forward, The Last Kids on Earth would be the second TV adaptation of Brallier’s books, which include 10 novels in the main series and several standalone stories. An animated series, created and exec produced by Brallier, ran on Netflix from 2019-21.
The logline for the Disney project reads, “When monsters overrun the sleepy town of Wakefield, a mismatched group of teens must band together, not only to survive, but to become the unlikely heroes charged with stopping the end of the world.”
The Last Kids on Earth is the second pilot Disney+ and Disney Channel have ordered in the past week, stepping up development on live-action projects. It follows on the heels of Aquamarine, a drama based on the 2006 mermaid movie (one of the film’s stars, Emma Roberts, is executive producing and will guest star in the pilot).
Fiveash, Stoteraux and Tancharoen will executive produce The Last Kids on Earth with Brallier and Blue Ant Studios’ Hillary Zwick Turner, Jennifer Twiner McCarron and Matt Hornburg.
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