Geek Girl Book Cover – Picture: HarperCollins
Netflix has picked up a brand new teen collection primarily based on the best-selling e-book franchise Geek Girl from Waterside Studios, Nelvana, Ruby Rock Pictures, and Aircraft Pictures which begins manufacturing later this 12 months. Here’s what we all know up to now.
Ten episodes have been commissioned by Netflix and Corus Entertainment, every round half-hour.
While Netflix is the important thing distributor worldwide, there’s a notable exception. In Canada, the distribution can be dealt with by Corus Entertainment which owns networks like Global, Slice, HGTV, W Network, and Showcase.
What’s Geek Girl about?
The collection itself is predicated on a e-book collection by British author Holly Smale who went on to provide six entries within the collection in complete, revealed between 2013 and 2017.
The six e-book entries embody the next:
- Geek Girl (2013)
- Model Misfit (2013)
- Picture Perfect (2014)
- All That Glitters (2015)
- Head Over Heels (2016)
- Forever Geek (2017)
Geek Girl e-book assortment from Holly Smale
The best-selling books are revealed by HarperCollins and have been translated into over 30 languages.
Per GoodReads, right here’s the synopsis of the primary entry:
“Harriet Manners is aware of numerous issues.
She is aware of {that a} cat has 32 muscle mass in every ear, a “jiffy” lasts 1/one hundredth of a second, and the common individual laughs 15 occasions per day. What she isn’t fairly so certain about is why no one in school appears to love her very a lot. So when she’s noticed by a prime mannequin agent, Harriet grabs the possibility to reinvent herself. Even if it means stealing her Best Friend’s dream, incurring the wrath of her arch enemy Alexa, and repeatedly humiliating herself in entrance of the impossibly good-looking supermodel Nick. Even if it means mendacity to the folks she loves.
As Harriet veers from one couture catastrophe to the subsequent with the assistance of her overly enthusiastic father and her uber-geeky stalker, Toby, she begins to grasp that the world of vogue doesn’t appear to love her any greater than the true world did.
And as her previous life begins to crumble, the query is: will Harriet have the ability to rework herself earlier than she ruins all the pieces?”
Waterside Studios is headed up by govt producer Jeff Norton, recognized for his work in bringing best-selling books to the display screen. Waterside Studios commonly groups with Nelvana (the animation studio owned by Corus Entertainment) on kids’s animated and live-action content material.
RubyRock Pictures are producing the forthcoming present. The British-based outfit describes itself as a “high-end scripted production company” based by Zoë Rocha. Rocha, alongside manufacturing govt Josh Harris function producers on the challenge.
Aircraft Pictures, primarily based in Canada, are additionally behind the manufacturing.
When will manufacturing start on Geek Girl?
Production on the brand new collection is scheduled to start in Spring 2023 and can primarily happen within the United Kingdom.
No launch date or window for the teenager collection has been at present supplied.
We’ll be monitoring all updates and information about Netflix’s new YA collection Geek Girl as and once we get it, so maintain this submit bookmarked because it’ll be up to date over time.