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Karyn Kusama to Direct Prime Video’s Life Is Strange Series Premiere

Showrunner Charlie Covell leads a cast featuring Tatum Grace Hopkins as Max with Maisy Stella as Chloe.

Overview

  • Karyn Kusama will helm the first two episodes and serve as an executive producer on the adaptation.
  • The series adapts the original game’s premise in which Max discovers a time‑rewind ability and, with Chloe, investigates a fellow student’s disappearance.
  • Charlie Covell is writing the series and serving as showrunner and executive producer.
  • Square Enix, Story Kitchen and LuckyChap are producing with Amazon MGM Studios, with Story Kitchen’s Dmitri M. Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg and Timothy I. Stevenson among the executive producers.
  • Life Is Strange: Reunion, billed as the conclusion of Max and Chloe’s story in the games, is slated to launch March 26 on Xbox Series X|S and PC.