Three years after it exploded into a pandemic-era sensation, an Among Us animated series is in development at CBS Studios, Variety reports.
The new series will be based on the premise of the game, with a murderous Impostor sabotaging the ship, backstabbing crewmembers, and generally sowing chaos. Who will be the Impostor? Maybe we’ll find out in the season finale.
Among Us developer Innersloth is involved with the project. It is being led by Owen Dennis, who worked on Regular Show as a writer and storyboard artist before creating Infinity Train, a Cartoon Network series about an endless train filled with impossible worlds. Titmouse, the studio behind Big Mouth and Star Trek: Lower Decks, is handling the animation.
Since Among Us first exploded into the public consciousness back in 2020, Innersloth has sought to build on its popularity, including developing a VR version and participating in various crossovers. It even got its own one-shot manga. A sequel was in development, but work was abandoned in favor of reworking the original game’s codebase.
Among Us is far from the only game to explore adaptations in other media, with The Last Of Us leading the way in 2023. The ongoing trend speaks to the outsized influence that games have on popular culture, which Hollywood can seemingly no longer ignore.
Among Us does not have a release date.
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