Nothing sus here: CBS Studios is reportedly developing viral hit game Among Us into an animated series through its CBS Eye Animation Productions division, producing with game developer Innersloth. Owen Dennis, creator of the fan and critic favorite Infinity Train, will serve as creator and executive producer under his overall deal with CBS Studios.
The official logline reads:
Members of your crew have been replaced by an alien shapeshifter intent on causing confusion, sabotaging the ship and killing everyone. Root out the ‘Impostor’ or fall victim to its murderous designs.
The series will be animated by Titmouse (Big Mouth, Star Trek: Lower Decks, The Legend of Vox Machina) with the studio’s Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio and Ben Kalina serving as executive producers alongside Dennis and Forest Willard, Marcus Bromander and Carl Neisser for Innersloth. A network or streamer is not yet attached.
Much as the series conceit describes, Among Us is a multiplayer cooperative casual game wherein Crewmate players must uncover the Impostor aboard their vessel and repair the damage they cause. The game debuted in 2018 but blasted off amid the COVID lockdown in 2020, rocketing to the top of the Google Play charts in 66 countries in October of that year and of the iOS app store in 55 countries, pulling in close to half a billion monthly active users.
Innersloth is represented by Big Pigeon for film and television.
Dennis’ surreal and philosophical Infinity Train originally launched on Cartoon Network in 2019, following strong fan response to the 2016 pilot. After two seasons, the series embarked to the then-labeled HBO Max for third and fourth seasons (2020/2021). The Train Documentaries, a series of 10 shorts, was also released in 2019. The series was one of the dozens removed from the HBO Max/Max platform in August 2022, following the Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
Prior to creating Infinity Train, Dennis was a director, writer and storyboard artist on J.G. Quintel’s Regular Show and a storyboard artist on Close Enough. He is represented by UTA, Industry Entertainment and Yorn Levine Barnes.
[Source: Variety]
