EXCLUSIVE: iGeneration Studios, producers of Netflix’s My Life with the Walter Boys, based mostly on Ali Novak’s fashionable YA e book, is reteaming with the writer to develop a brand new drama collection based mostly on Novak’s Heartbreakers books. Titled The Heartbreakers Chronicles, iGen shall be buying the undertaking.
My Life with the Walter Boys was simply renewed by Netflix for a second season, after solely ten days on the streamer. In its first full week on Netflix, the primary season tallied greater than 12M views, placing it on the high of the English-language TV charts. Following its December 7 premiere, the collection shot to No. 2 on Netflix’s High 10 listing with 7.5M views in only a few days of availability.
The Heartbreakers Chronicles follows the exploits of the world’s #1 “boy band,” advised from the attitude of the love pursuits of every of the band’s members.
Ed Glauser, iGeneration Studios founder and CEO, Lawrence Aldridge and Ella Troup will govt produce by iGen. Music govt Matt Emsell, who helped information the band 5 Seconds of Summer time to the highest of the charts, will govt produce as effectively.
“Whereas we’ve been creating The Heartbreakers Chronicles for a while, the overwhelming success of My Life with the Walter Boys as a collection, makes this the proper time to take this undertaking to market,” mentioned Glauser. “Ali Novak writes books that younger audiences wish to learn and we’re so happy that we are able to carry them to life on tv for her thousands and thousands of followers all over the world.”
Novak’s Heartbreakers collection has 55 million reads on Wattpad. The primary two books have moreover been printed by Sourcebooks, Inc.
iGeneration Studios focuses on creating and producing scripted dramas for the younger grownup to primetime related audiences. Their earlier credit embrace The Kissing Sales space movie trilogy for Netflix, which set viewing information for the streamer. They’re presently creating a slate of extra adult-skewing collection together with interval drama Diva, based mostly on a Max Benitz script, with The Kissing Sales space author/director Vince Marcello on board as showrunner; an adaptation of writer Simon Mayo’s bestselling thriller Knife Edge, with Siofra Campbell writing; and interval medical drama Villa Paz, with The Handmaid’s Story EP Matthew Hastings on board as showrunner.
Katie Campione contributed to this report.
