Let’s Play, the WEBTOON series from Leeanne M. Krecic, is getting a live-action television adaptation.
The series will be executive produced by Allnighter’s Amanda Kruse, Dinesh Shamdasani and Hunter Gorinson, along with Krecic and Tom Akel. The search for a showrunner is still underway.
“I created Let’s Play because I was looking for characters like me – die-hard gamers, heartfelt romantics, and young women with dreams of success on their own terms – but couldn’t find them represented anywhere in the pop culture of the moment. So, I decided that was a story that I would have to tell for myself,” Kercic said. “On its surface, Let’s Play is a love triangle, but it’s also a contemporary, emotionally sophisticated reinvention of the form – one that soon will allow young women to see the loves, aspirations, and setbacks of people like themselves celebrated on screen at long last.”
“Let’s Play has an incredible fanbase of ardent readers – the vast majority of them, young women – who have found within it exactly what Leeanne hoped to create: a community. I am one of them myself and discovering Let’s Play was a revelation,” Kruse added. “It’s an absolute honor to play a role in helping bring this story to screen.”
The official synopsis for Let’s Play is below:
Aquintessential romantic comedy in the vein of NEW GIRL and FRIENDS for the generation raised on YouTube and Twitch, LET’S PLAYfollows Sam – an aspiring game developer who sacrificed a social life to pour her heart and soul into her first game. But when the product of Sam’s passion – a lovingly constructed RPG called Ruminate – gets skewered by an enigmatic game reviewer only known by the online handle “Marshall Law,” the personal and professional fallout is swift and brutal. Things get even more complicated when Sam discovers that her new next-door neighbor is none other than Marshall in the flesh – and that, together, they’re about to become opposing players in the game of love and life.
The television adaptation of Let’s Play has yet to receive a premiere date.
Source: Allnighter
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