Halia Abdel-Meguid To Pen Netflix Adaptation For Duffers – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Halia Abdel-Meguid has been tapped to put in writing and government produce Demise Observe, a live-action sequence adaptation of the Japanese manga and anime sequence initially written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, which is within the works at Netflix. As revealed by Deadline in July, Demise Observe is without doubt one of the initiatives on the event slate of Upside Down, the newly launched manufacturing firm of Stranger Issues creators Matt & Ross Duffer below their Netflix general deal. 

A longtime fan of the manga and anime sequence, Meguid, who speaks fluent Japanese and has beforehand lived in Tokyo, is taking up Demise Observe having labored with the Duffer brothers on one other Upside Down Photos growth venture for Netflix. She is a writing marketing consultant on their sequence adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s novel The Talisman.

The unique Demise Observe focuses on a brilliant teenager who discovers a mysterious black pocket book that provides him supernatural energy over life and dying, the latter attributable to writing an individual’s identify within the e book. The teenager turns into intoxicated with energy as he decides to cleanse the world of undesirables, as a regulation enforcement crew tries to cease him. Netflix made a movie adaptation in 2017, however the sequence can be a completely new tackle the unique IP.

Abdel-Meguid additionally wrote on Hulu’s upcoming adaptation of The Satan within the White Metropolis. She obtained her begin as an actress and musician in London earlier than turning to screenwriting and graduating from AFI in 2018. She is repped by, Rain, Paradigm and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.