Overview
- Amazon MGM Studios is developing an adult animated adaptation of Image Comics’ Monstress with Steven Maeda set to write and co-showrun.
- Tiffany Greshler will serve as co-showrunner and executive producer alongside Maeda, whose recent work includes Netflix’s live-action One Piece.
- Original creators Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda will executive produce with Jason Brown and Ryan Stayton, who is attached through the Hivemind banner.
- Prime Video’s official description calls it an Asian-inspired fantasy about a young woman who carries a literal monster as she hunts for her past and her mother’s killer.
- The comic launched in 2015 and has won four Hugo Awards and seven Eisners, positioning the adaptation as a high-profile play in genre animation.