Nathan Pyle’s Strange Planet is getting the TV treatment.
Apple TV+ has distributed a 10-episode, straight-to-series order for an animated series dependent on Pyle’s webcomic and best-selling graphic novels of a similar name.
The arrangement will tell profound and heartfelt stories about beings on a distant planet similar to our own. Amalia Levari will fill in as showrunner on the whimsical comedy. Dan Harmon (Rick and Morty, Community) will be credited as a co-creator alongside Pyle on the series. The pair will executive produce close by Levari.
Abnormal Planet will be produced in-house at Apple’s as of late launched Apple Studios close by animation production house ShadowMachine (BoJack Horseman, Final Space). Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico will executive produce for ShadowMachine close by Steve Levy and Pyle’s better half, Taylor Alexy Pyle.
Artist, author and writer Pyle recently had one of his designs featured on Harmon’s former religion NBC comedy Community. He has distributed various New York Times smash hit books. He dispatched webcomic Strange Planet in mid 2019. The comic follows a planet of genderless outsiders and investigates the intricacies of humankind. The series acquired an after on Instagram, prompting a book in November of that very year. A subsequent book continued in 2020. The Pyles are repped by CAA, The Gernert Co. also, Weintraub.
Bizarre Planet is Harmon’s fourth animated series, joining Adult Swim megahit Rick and Morty, Fox’s impending Krapopolis and FXX’s as of late arranged Little Demon. He’s repped by CAA.
Levari, who acquired an Emmy in 2015 for composing on Comedy Central’s Over the Garden Wall, additionally considers Nickelodeon’s Harvey Breaks as a real part of her credits. She’s with Kaplan Perrone and Morris Yorn.
Bizarre Planet turns into Apple’s second animated series, joining Disney-claimed Loren Bouchard passage Central Park (which returns for its second season this month).