Netflix is creating a live-action collection primarily based on the “Persona” online game franchise, Selection has realized from sources.
Christopher Monfette is hooked up to put in writing the variation along with serving as government producer and showrunner. Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, and Robert Atwood of 21 Laps may also government produce together with Dmitri M. Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg, and Timothy I. Stevenson by way of Story Kitchen. Toru Nakahara of SEGA will government produce as nicely. Emily Feher is overseeing the undertaking for 21 Laps, with the corporate at present below an general TV cope with Netflix.
Netflix declined to remark.
“Persona” has confirmed to be a wildly standard RPG franchise. Whereas the plot varies sport to sport, they sometimes concentrate on Japanese highschool college students who should undergo regular every day routines and construct and keep friendships whereas additionally coping with supernatural threats.
Developed by P-Studios (a division of Atlus) and printed by Sega, there have been six major entries within the “Persona” franchise so far, with the seventh entry — “Persona 6” — formally confirmed to be within the works in June 2026. There are additionally 15 associated spinoffs within the franchise. The video games originated as spinoff of the Japanese sport collection “Shin Megami Tensei,” with “Revelations: Persona” debuting in 1996. The newest entry was “Persona 5: The Phantom X” in 2025. “Persona 4 Revival” is because of be launched in February 2027.
Ought to it transfer ahead, this might not be the primary Netflix collection primarily based on online game IP. The streamer additionally produced “The Witcher” live-action TV present in addition to animated reveals like “Arcane,” “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners,” “Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft” and extra.
Monfette has beforehand written for reveals like “12 Monkeys” at Syfy, “Star Trek: Picard” at Paramount+, and “9-1-1” for Fox & ABC. He’s additionally hooked up as a author and co-executive producer on the upcoming Marvel Disney+ collection “VisionQuest.”
On the TV facet, 21 Laps most famously produced the megahit Netflix collection “Stranger Issues,” which just lately concluded after 5 blockbuster seasons on the streamer. The present helped put Netflix originals on the map and helped show streaming collection may very well be as profitable, if no more, than reveals on conventional shops. 21 Laps has additionally been behind hit reveals like “The Good Couple” and “Final Man Standing,” whereas the corporate has additionally produced profitable movies together with current hit “Backrooms” and “Deadpool & Wolverine,” with Levy having directed and co-wrote the latter movie.
Story Kitchen was based in 2022 by “Sonic the Hedgehog” producer Johnson and former company accomplice Goldberg, with veteran manufacturing government Stevenson and artistic government Elena Sandoval. The corporate makes a speciality of diversifications of videogames and different non-traditional IP into tv and movie. There present slate consists of the live-action “Tomb Raider” collection and the live-action tackle “Life Is Unusual,” each of that are arrange at Amazon Prime Video.
Monfette is repped by Trade Leisure. 21 Laps is repped by WME and Ziffren Brittenham. Story Kitchen is repped by WME and Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn.
