A What We Do In the Shadows TV series is officially happening now. FX has gone ahead and given a series order to a new show based on the 2014 vampire mockumentary. Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, who directed the film, will serve as co-creators and executive producers on the series. The series, consisting of 10 half-hour episodes, is expected to debut in 2019.
The series will star Matt Berry, Kayvan Novak, Natasia Demetriou, and Harvey Guillen and move the setting from New Zealand to America (New York City, to be precise). The series, like the film, will focus on a group of vampires living together as roommates. Nick Grad, FX’s co-president of original programming, issued the following statement about the series order:
“What We Do in the Shadows only gets better with age thanks to this brilliant adaptation for television by co-creators Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi…Their feature version was a hilarious, fresh take on the mundanity of everyday life that even immortals must face. We are thankful to them, Paul Simms and Scott Rudin, and this amazing cast for taking us deeper into the shadows with this series.”
In addition to the What We Do In the Shadows TV series, there’s also a sequel to the film in the works called We’re Wolves, focusing on werewolf characters who appear in the first film. Then there’s Wellington Paranormal, a spin-off TV series focusing on two police officer characters from the original film, which is coming to New Zealand TV soon.
