Netflix has debuted new poster artwork for the upcoming adaption of Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth. The series, from executive producer Robert Downey Jr. is a post-apocalyptic fairytale about a hybrid deer-boy who goes on an extraordinary adventure. The series comes to Netflix on 4th June.
The comic, if you’re unfamiliar with it, was the brainchild of Lemire, who both wrote and illustrated the series for Vertigo from 2009 through early 2013. Running forty issues in total, the book built a post-apocalyptic world based on rural sensibilities, and featured Gus befriending a world-weary drifter named Tommy Jepperd and setting off to find a rumored safe haven for animal hybrid children like Gus. Along the way, they wind up getting mixed up with a frightening cult that experiments on hybrid children and discovering the truth about what happened to the world. The book gets its name from Gus’ unbridled love of candy and sweets.
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DC has also released a new comic-to-screen featurette for the series featuring Lemire and executive producers Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey. Watch now in the player below:
Executive produced by Team Downey’s Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey, Sweet Tooth stars Christian Convery (Beautiful Boy, Tiger Rising, Playing With Fire), Nonso Anozie (The Laundromat, Zoo, Game of Thrones), Adeel Akhtar (Les Misérables [TV series], Victoria & Abdul, The Big Sick) and Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth, Saturday Night Live), with James Brolin (Life in Pieces, Amityville Horror, Westworld) as the voice of the narrator. Jim Mickle and Beth Schwartz serve as co-showrunners.
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