'Persona' Live-Action TV Series in the Works at Netflix

Key Points:

• Netflix is developing a live-action series based on the popular “Persona” video game franchise, with Christopher Monfette attached as writer, executive producer, and showrunner.
• The production team includes executive producers Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, and Robert Atwood of 21 Laps, alongside Dmitri M. Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg, and Timothy I. Stevenson from Story Kitchen, with Toru Nakahara of SEGA also executive producing.
• "Persona" is a successful RPG series focusing on Japanese high school students balancing daily life and supernatural threats, developed by P-Studio and published by Sega, with multiple main entries and spinoffs, including upcoming titles "Persona 6" and "Persona 4 Revival."
• This project follows Netflix’s trend of adapting video game IPs into series, joining titles like “The Witcher,” “Arcane,” and “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.”
• 21 Laps, known for producing “Stranger Things,” and Story Kitchen, specializing in video game adaptations, are key collaborators, with Monfette bringing experience from shows like “Star Trek: Picard” and the upcoming Marvel series “VisionQuest.”