Life is Unusual has been floating round as a possible TV present for a number of years now, however on Friday it was officially confirmed that Amazon Prime was creating the collection, with The Finish of the F***ing World creator Charlie Covell operating the present. Nevertheless, not concerned are any of the individuals accountable for creating the sport within the first place. Christian Divine, the author of the unique collection, took to X to level out that the builders from Don’t Nod apparently haven’t any function.
Rumors of a Life is Unusual TV adaptation go back as far as 2016, nevertheless it wasn’t till final week that the sunshine went inexperienced. Variety reported that Amazon MGM has picked up the collection based mostly on the magical adventures of Max Caulfield, a scholar who can rewind time, with govt producers coming from Sq. Enix, Story Kitchen and LuckyChap, and Amazon producing. Story Kitchen is the manufacturing firm headed by Dmitri M. Johnson and Mike Goldberg, which can also be behind the forthcoming Tomb Raider present for Amazon. (Johnson beforehand helmed dj2 Leisure, which was also shopping Life is Strange, and he produces the Sonic motion pictures.) Fortunate Chap was behind Saltburn, Barbie and this yr’s Wuthering Heights. Together with Charlie Covell (they had been additionally accountable for creating the unimaginable Netflix collection Kaos), it appears like a stellar group to be creating this system. But it surely additionally lacks any names from developer Don’t Nod, which has attracted the ire of Divine.
The one individuals not concerned are the creators. https://t.co/xSqOXlmYPv
— Christian Divine (@Chris_divine) September 5, 2025
“The only people not involved are the creators,” Divine pointedly posted on X, quoting the Amazon MGM Studios announcement. Divine, who additionally had a job on Deus Ex, has solely made one different touch upon the topic. Responding to comic Jonathan Callan, he sardonically dropped a Chinatown gif with the phrase, “Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown.”
I can think about how a lot it should suck for the creators and writers of the narrative-led sport to see its reincarnation created with out them. It have to be galling. It’s additionally usually the case that diversifications can have to take such large steps away from supply materials to work—individuals consistently underestimate the intense problem of making a satisfying story from video games that permits a substantial amount of participant selection—that it may be a brutal course of for creators, who may even find yourself hindering issues by not eager to kill their darlings. (There’s an excellent purpose individuals like Alan Moore refuse to have something to do with diversifications of their work, and refuse to ever watch them.) Both approach, it’ll be a controversial factor, however a simple scapegoat for die-hard followers who want to blame somebody for each side of the present they don’t take pleasure in.
