{"id":2167597,"date":"2025-11-19T23:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2167597"},"modified":"2025-11-19T23:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:42:10","slug":"wednesday-creators-al-gough-miles-millar-developing-grim-adult-animated-series-at-netflix-based-on-boom-comic-with-jennifer-yuh-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wednesday-creators-al-gough-miles-millar-developing-grim-adult-animated-series-at-netflix-based-on-boom-comic-with-jennifer-yuh-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wednesday\u2019 Creators Al Gough &#038; Miles Millar Developing \u2018Grim\u2019 Adult Animated Series At Netflix Based On Boom! Comic With Jennifer Yuh Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: Netflix has teamed with Al Gough and Miles Millar, creators and executive producers of the streamer\u2019s most popular English-language series, <em>Wednesday<\/em>, for<em> Grim, <\/em>an adult animated series based on Boom! Studios\u2019 horror-fantasy comic books by Stephanie Phillips and Flaviano, Deadline has learned. Gough and Millar are set to executive produce the project, now in development, alongside Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Supervising Director on one of Netflix\u2019s signature adult animated series, the Emmy-winning<em> Love, Death + Robots. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A character-driven supernatural saga, <em>Grim <\/em>follows Jessica Harrow, a newly recruited Reaper tasked with ferrying souls to the afterlife. Unlike her fellow Reapers, Jessica has no memory of her death or life before. Her search for answers pulls her deeper into the unseen architecture of the afterlife, revealing hidden forces, cosmic secrets, and her shocking personal connection to Death itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Millar and Gough executive produce for Millar\/Gough Ink alongside the company\u2019s Head of Film Aaron Schmidt and Yuh Nelson. Stephen Christy and Adam Yoelin executive produce for Boom! Studios, with Mette Norkjaer co-executive producing. Phillips and Flaviano also co-executive produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A rep for Netflix declined comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Grim<\/em>, praised for its genre-blending mythology and visual style, debuted in 2022 and quickly became one of the highest-selling launches in Boom! Studios history. Its 25-issue run concludes this month. Founded in 2005, Boom! Studios is behind several comics that have gotten TV series adaptation, most recently action series <em>Butterfly <\/em>starring Daniel Dae Kim, which launched on Prime Video in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gough and Millar are the creators, executive producers and showrunners of <em>Wednesday,<\/em> whose two seasons to date are No. 1 and No.4 on Netflix\u2019s most popular English series list. The duo\u2019s TV credits also include the the WB\/CW hit<em> Smallville<\/em>, AMC\u2019s<em> Into the Badlands,<\/em> and MTV\u2019s <em>The Shannara Chronicles.<\/em> In features, Gough and Millar have written and produced <em>Spider-Man 2, Shanghai Noon <\/em>and <em>Shanghai Knights, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor<\/em> and, most recently, <em>Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. <\/em>They are repped by WME.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Yuh Nelson directed multiple episodes of Netflix\u2019s short-form dystopian sci-fi animated series <em>Love, Death + Robots<\/em>. She began her career at DreamWorks Animation, where she served as Head of Story on the original <em>Kung Fu Panda<\/em> and directed<em> Kung Fu Panda 2 <\/em>and <em>Kung Fu Panda 3<\/em>, becoming the first woman to solely direct an animated feature for a major studio and landing a Best Animated Feature Film Oscar nomination for<em> Kung Fu Panda 2.<\/em> Yuh Nelson is repped by\u00a0WME,\u00a0Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and\u00a0Hansen Jacobson Teller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.deadline.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Deadline's Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Deadline&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. 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Studios\u2019 horror-fantasy comic books by Stephanie Phillips and Flaviano, Deadline has learned. Gough and Millar are set to executive produce the project, now in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2167598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[400994,404260,379739,348897,416253,416249,416252,340811,23191,416250,416251],"class_list":["post-2167597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-adult-animated-series","tag-al-gough","tag-deadline","tag-executive-producers","tag-grim","tag-jennifer-yuh-nelson","tag-jessica-harrow","tag-miles-millar","tag-netflix","tag-stephanie-phillips","tag-yuh-nelson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Wednesday-Creators-Al-Gough-Miles-Millar-Developing-\u2018Grim-Adult.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167599,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167597\/revisions\/2167599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2167598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}