Gotta admit, I did not see this one coming. Deadline has the news that Netflix is developing a Bat Boy series—yes, that Bat Boy, of Weekly World News in the ’90s fame—from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Riverdale, pictured above) and Joe Tracz (One Piece).
If anyone is going to make Bat Boy fly, it’s probably these two. Aguirre-Sacasa co-created Riverdale and created Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and thus has spent considerable time in the supernatural-high-school-wacky-drama trenches. Tracz is co-showunner of Netflix’s popular One Piece, also a writer and producer on Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and was a writer on A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Deadline notes that while yes, there was a Bat Boy musical, this new series is entirely unrelated. Here’s how they describe the series:
I feel like that “ish” is doing a lot here.
Weekly World News CEO/editor-in-chief Greg D’Alessandro will be one of the show’s producers, should it fly up and out of the development phase and onto Netflix subscribers’ screens.