By Roku has premiered the teaser trailer for its live-action series adaptation of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black’s children’s fantasy books “The Spiderwick Chronicles”.
Paramount Television Studios and 20th Television originally shot and completed the eight-episode series for the Disney+ service.
However, the Mouse House opted not to move forward as a means of cost-cutting, and concerns over the show’s dark tone. That’s when Roku swooped in and snagged it for the U.S. market in its most ambitious acquisition to date.
The story follows the Grace Family as they move into a dilapidated ancestral home and begin to unravel a dark mystery about their great-great Uncle who discovered a foreboding faerie world existing parallel to their own.
The new series is a modern coming-of-age story combined with fantasy adventure. Jack Dylan Grazer, Lyon Daniels, Noah Cottrell, Joy Bryant, Mychala Lee and Christian Slater star.
Aron Eli Coleite created the series and both writes and produces. Kat Coiro, Jeremy Bell, and Grace Gilroy executive produce.
Nickelodeon and Paramount previously adapted the property into a 2008 film.
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