WarnerMedia’s Rooster Teeth Studios has announced development on a new animated series for HBO Max titled Slam!.
Slam! is based on the critically-acclaimed BOOM! Studios graphic novels createdby Pam Ribon and Veronica Fish. Ribon will adapt and executive produce the series. The series will be produced by Rooster Teeth Studios, BOOM! Studios, and Minnow Mountain.
Slam! is an adult animated half-hour series set in the fast-paced, hard-hitting, super cheeky, all-female world of banked track roller derby, following two young women who will have to decide if their budding friendship is stronger than the pull of a team when a win is on the line. The series will be brought to life using a groundbreaking combination of rotoscoped and 3D animation to take viewers into the sport in a way never visualised on screen before.
“I’m so fortunate to have the coolest, talented-est, Austin-est animation studios inthe world partnering to bring SLAM! to life as a television series,” said Pamela Ribon. “Billy Wee and the team at HBO Max geeked out just as hard as we didwhen talking about where this could go in storytelling and animation. That’s whenwe knew we’d found the perfect home. We’re so excited to make this rough andtumble, emotional, honest show about what it means to surrender your life (and yourknees!) to roller derby.”
“We are beyond thrilled to be working with BOOM! Studios and Minnow Mountain tobring Slam! to life in animation,” said Ryan P. Hall, Head of Rooster Teeth Studios.“Pam Ribon is one of the best storytellers in the business and Slam! is a trulyinspiring story, so we can’t wait to share this world with the HBO Max audience.”
Rooster Teeth Studios’ growing slate of content includes Brian Michael Bendis’ Cover in development at HBO Max, gen:LOCK Season 2 in production at HBO Max, and Transformers: War for Cybertron trilogy currently airing on Netflix. As adevelopment arm within Rooster Teeth, Rooster Teeth Studios leverages an in-house animation studio that produces original CG, 2D and mixed media content.
Rooster Teeth produces the award-winning Halo satire Red vs. Blue, which is thelongest-running web series in history. Rooster Teeth also produces the globalphenomenon RWBY, which was the first western anime series to be distributed inJapan. Rooster Teeth Studios has partnered to make original content with HBOMax, Netflix, Cartoon Network, Discovery and Outlier Society, and collaborationswith Hasbro, ELEAGUE, Scholastic, DC and Warner Bros. Consumer Products.Rooster Teeth Studios is represented by CAA.BOOM! Studios, one of the largest comic book publishers in North America, haspublished some of the highest-selling original comics of the last decade, including Lumberjanes, Something is Killing the Children, Once & Future, and Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR.
The company is currently in production on a live action adaptation of their R.L. Stine graphic novel series Just Beyond for Disney+. They have adaptations oftheir material in development at Apple, HBO Max, Amazon, Paramount+, and at Netflix through their first-look TV deal with the streamer.
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