AfterShock Comics' Lost City Explorers Being Developed For TV

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By Sam Stone

Published Jul 18, 2018

AfterShock's The Lost City Explorers by Zack Kaplan and Alvaro Sarraseca has been optioned for television by Universal.

Less than a month after its debut, and Zack Kaplan and Alvaro Sarraseca's The Lost City Explorers already has been optioned for television.

The AfterShock comics series has been officially picked up by Universal Television to produce the title. Kaplan is attached to the adaptation of the series as executive producer and writer while AfterShock President Lee Kramer and CEO Jon Kramer will also executive produce.

"The Lost City Explorers is a story to inspire the imagination and unlock everyone’s hidden explorer," explained Kaplan. "Along with Aftershock, I’m thrilled to partner with Universal and help bring this story to television."

Debuting last month, the coming-of-age series follows a group of teenagers that venture into the tunnels underneath New York City to locate one their missing fathers. As their search continues further and further underground, the group discovers the lost city of Atlantis directly below NYC...but they're not alone.

"We at AfterShock are excited for this first project with Universal and thrilled that they saw in The Lost City Explorers what we saw – an incredibly fun and thought provoking story from a creator with tremendous talent," declared Lee and Jon Kramer in a joint statement.

With approximately two years writing in the comic book industry, Kaplan has become one its fastest rising new voices writing Eclipse and Port of Earth for Image Comics/Top Cow Productions. Eclipse, co-created and illustrated by Giovanni Timpano, was announced to be in development for television by Top Cow last year at San Diego Comic-Con. The sci fi procedural series is scheduled to return on August 1 through Image/Top Cow after a brief hiatus following its second volume.

The Lost City Explorers is the second AfterShock Comics title to be optioned recently with Animosity by Marguerite Bennett and Rafael de LaTorre was optioned for the big screen by Legendary Entertainment last month.

In the meantime, The Lost City Explorers #2, written by Zack Kaplan, drawn by Sarraseca, and colored by Chris Blythe, is out this week from AfterShock Comics.