Sweet Tooth creator Jeff Lemire announced in his newsletter that the Netflix adaptation of the series has remained "super-faithful to the comic." Lemire's Vertigo Comic series ran from 2009 to 2013.
The series, previously optioned by Hulu, is getting a full series order from Netflix, with Robert Downey Jr. and his wife, Susan Downey, at the helm as executive producers. In Lemire's recent newsletter he shared his thoughts on the series adaption after visiting set.
"I’m not allowed to reveal any more details about the show yet," Lemire wrote, "but I can say that I was on set for the filming of the pilot in New Zealand last year, which was an incredible experience, and the pilot came out amazingly well. I couldn’t be more pleased with the adaptation. It’s super faithful to the comic and I can’t wait for the show to launch."
The series will begin with an 8-episode season and will launch on Netflix either later this year or early next year. Sweet Tooth tells the coming-of-age tale of Gus, who "leaves his home in the forest to find the outside world ravaged by a cataclysmic event. He joins a ragtag family of humans and animal-children hybrids like himself in search of answers about this new world and the mystery behind his hybrid origins."
Directed and co-written by Jim Mickle, Sweet Tooth stars Christian Convery, Nonso Anozie, Adeel Akhtar and Will Forte and James Brolin. No official release date has been announced.