Last fall, Prime Video announced that it’s adapting Square Enix’s Life Is Strange as a live-action TV series. Now, the two primary leading roles have been cast.
Tatum Grace Hopkins will portray Maxine “Max” Caulfield, while Maisy Stella will play her best friend, Chloe Price. Outside of her roles on Broadway–including The Queen of Versailles and For the Girls–Hopkins is virtually unknown in the entertainment industry. Life is Strange will be her first TV role ever.
Stella is better known as a musician, but she has an impressive acting resume as well. She had a co-starring role on ABC’s Nashville for six seasons, and had a starring turn opposite Aubrey Plaza in the Prime Video original film My Old Ass. Her next films, Poetic License and Flowervale Street, are slated to debut later this year.
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The show will retain the premise of the games, which revolve around Max’s ability to rewind time. She uses that power to save Chloe’s life, but there are unforeseen consequences for both girls and their hometown. Max’s abilities come at a cost, and she has to make a big decision about who lives and who’s going to die.
Charlie Covell, a TV veteran who previously worked on Netflix’s The End of the F***king World and Kaos, will be the showrunner of Life is Strange. Story Kitchen is producing the show alongside Margot Robbie’s production company, LuckyChap. Christian Divine–one of the writers of the first game–has confirmed that the original creators behind the franchise are not involved with the series at all.
In the video game realm, Max and Chloe’s story will conclude later this month in Life Is Strange: Reunion. That game is slated to launch on March 26, for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.