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Created by | Aron Eli Coleite |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
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Production location | Vancouver, Canada |
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Network | The Roku Channel |
Release | April 19, 2024 – present |
The Spiderwick Chronicles is an American television series based on the book series of the same name by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. The series consists of eight episodes [1] and premiered on The Roku Channel on April 19, 2024.
Helen and her children, 15-year-old fraternal twins Jared and Simon and their sister Mallory move to their ancestral home, Spiderwick. Jared discovers a boggart and realizes that magical creatures are real. The only one to believe him is his great-aunt Lucinda who implores Jared to find the pages of her father's field guide to magical creatures and protect them from the murderous Ogre, Mulgarath. [2]
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [2] |
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1 | "Welcome to Spiderwick" | TBA | TBA | April 19, 2024 |
2 | "The Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You" | TBA | TBA | April 19, 2024 |
3 | "I Will Survive" | TBA | TBA | April 19, 2024 |
4 | "Tastes like Chicken" | TBA | TBA | April 19, 2024 |
5 | "A Midsummer's Daydream" | TBA | TBA | April 19, 2024 |
6 | "1028 Teeth" | TBA | TBA | April 19, 2024 |
7 | "The Field Guide to Jared Grace" | TBA | TBA | April 19, 2024 |
8 | "The Wrath of Mulgarath" | TBA | TBA | April 19, 2024 |
On November 12, 2021, it was announced that a television adaptation was in development for Disney+, with Aron Eli Coleite serving as writer and showrunner. The series would be a co-production between Paramount Television Studios (whose film division made the 2008 feature-length adaptation of the books) and 20th Television. [9] Work on the series began by February 2022. [10] In May 2022, Kat Coiro joined as an executive producer and director for the first two episodes. [11]
Christian Slater joined the cast as Mulgarath in August 2022. He is reportedly set to appear only through the first season. [7] Later that month, Lyon Daniels and Noah Cottrell were added to the cast. [3] On August 30, Joy Bryant joined the cast as Helen Grace. [6] Mychala Lee joined as Mallory Grace in mid-September. [4]
Principal photography began on September 12, 2022, in Vancouver, Canada, and was scheduled to wrap on January 27, 2023. [12]
The series was released in its entirety on April 19, 2024 on The Roku Channel, consisting of eight episodes. [2] It was previously set to release on Disney+ consisting of six episodes, [12] however in August 2023, Deadline reported that the series was no longer moving forward at Disney+ due to cost-cutting reasons, despite having been already completed, and would be shopped to other networks. [13] In October 2023, Roku had picked up the U.S. exclusive rights to the series. [1]
The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's fantasy books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into the Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of fairies that they never knew existed. The first book, The Field Guide, was published in 2003 and then followed by The Seeing Stone (2003), Lucinda's Secret (2003), The Ironwood Tree (2004), and The Wrath of Mulgarath (2004). Several companion books have been published including Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You (2005), Notebook for Fantastical Observations (2005), and Care and Feeding of Sprites (2006). A second series, entitled Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, includes The Nixie's Song (2007), A Giant Problem (2008), and The Wyrm King (2009).
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