“Alien” TV Series Will Take Place Long Before Ellen Ripley’s Time

Life Is Strange and Disco Elysium fans will be getting their own TV adaptations, courtesy of Amazon. Per Deadline, Amazon Studios has teamed up with Dmitri M. Johnson’s dj2 Entertainment (which co-produced the Sonic the Hedgehog film adaption, along with the sequel) to bring several video game adaptations to the service, including Dontnod Entertainment’s Life Is Strange and ZA/UM’s Disco Elysium.

“The dj2 team has long believed that video games would one day serve as incredible source material for stories told in television and film, and that it was only the lack of love and respect for the artform which previously held successful adaptations back,” said Johnson.

Both adaptations had been in the process of development for a while now, with Shawn Mendes signing on to executive produce the Life Is Strange series, and ZA/UM having inked a deal in 2020 with dj2 for the TV adaptation of Disco Elysium.

Needless to say, there are plenty of film and TV adaptations of video games on the way in some form or another for genre fans. It was announced earlier this week that Netflix will finally be bringing BioShock to life, and of course Paramount+ has its Halo adaptation coming next month (and already has a second season confirmed).

There’s also the System Shock and Hunt: Showdown adaptations headed for new streaming service Binge, HBO’s The Last of Us, the upcoming Twisted Metal adaptation by Sony, and the Eli Roth-directed Borderlands film that finished production last year.

Life Is Strange tells the story of Max Caulfield, an 18-year-old photography student who discovers that she has the ability to rewind time, leading her every choice at the mercy of the butterfly effect. Meanwhile, Disco Elysium centres on a large city still recovering from the effects of a war decades ago. An amnesiac detective has been assigned to a murder case, during which he comes to recall his own past, along with the current forces trying to affect the city.