Disney+ Orders Pilot for Live-Action Adaptation of "The Last Kids on Earth"

The Last Kids on Earth may be coming to Disney+, with a pilot ordered for the project.

What's Happening:

• The Wrap reports that Disney+ has ordered a pilot for The Last Kids on Earth, a live-action adaptation of the illustrated children's book series of the same name.
• Longtime writing partners Chad Fiveash and James Stoteraux will write, executive produce, and serve as showrunners on the potential series.
• Fiveash and Stoteraux's early career includes their first foray into Disney with the "Christmas Impossible" segment of the straight-to-video anthology, Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas.
• In recent years, after writing for The Vampire Diaries, Fiveash and Stoteraux worked on several DC Comics-based shows, including Krypton, Batwoman and Gotham Knights, the last of which they were showrunners on.
• Kevin Tancharoen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Book of Boba Fett) will direct the pilot and executive produce.
• Written by Max Brallier, who will be among the Disney+ version's executive producers, The Last Kids on Earth book series centers on a group of teens, led by 13-year-old Jack Sullivan, who must work together after monsters overrun their town.
• The books were previously adapted into an animated series that aired on Netflix from 2019-2021, with a voice cast that included Mark Hamill, Rosario Dawson, Catherine O’Hara, Keith David, Bruce Campbell, Garland Whitt, Montserrat Hernandez, Charles Demers and Nick Wolfhard. 
• Along with Braillier, other non-writing executive producers on the Disney+ version of The Last Kids on Earth include Hillary Zwick Turner, Jennifer Twiner McCarron and Matt Hornburg, with The Wrap noting Hornburg is producing for Blue Ant Studios.