MGM+ sets course for Earth Abides


By Michael Pickard
March 27, 2024

Greenlight

US streamer MGM+ has ordered an adaptation of George R Stewart’s sci-fi novel Earth Abides, with Alexander Ludwig (Vikings) set to star.

Alexander Ludwig

Ludwig plays Ish, a brilliant but solitary young geologist living a semi-isolated life who awakens from a coma only to find that there is no one left alive but him.

A plague of unprecedented virulence has swept the globe, and though there are a few scattered survivors, there are no rules. His journey is to learn the difference between sanctuary and survival and to open his heart to love if he is to find meaning in his life after the great machine of civilisation has broken down.

Created by Todd Komarnicki (Sully), the series comes from MGM+ Studios and executive producers Kearie Peak and Lighthouse Productions’ Michael Phillips and Juliana Maio.

Komarnicki is the writer and showrunner. Additional writers include Karen Janszen, Tony Spiridakis, Evan Hart and Kyle Stephen. Bronwen Hughes is set to direct the pilot and episode two. Rachel Leiterman will direct episodes three and four, and Stephen Campanelli will direct episodes five and six.

Production is set to begin in Vancouver on April 8, with the series slated to premiere on MGM+ in late 2024.

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