EXCLUSIVE: Everyone’s favorite tabloid anomaly Bat Boy is set to star in his own live-action TV series. Netflix is developing Bat Boy, a YA horror-comedy from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Riverdale, Pretty Little Liars: Summer School) and Joe Tracz (One Piece, Dash & Lily), sources tell Deadline.
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The character of Bat Boy — the half-bat, half-boy who became infamous for his cover stories in the supermarket publication Weekly World News in the '90s — was previously brought to life in the Off-Broadway show Bat Boy: The Musical, which premiered in Los Angeles in 1997. That stage production, we understand, has no connection to the contemporary TV reinterpretation.
Representatives for Netflix and Warner Bros. Television declined to comment.
In the coming-of-age series adaptation, the title character is a teenage boy named Bobby Bates. With the help of fellow teens Charisma and her oddball sister Olive, Bobby reenters mainstream society after living in seclusion on the outskirts of town in the remains of a long-gone carnival. When Bobby enrolls at Cypressville High, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery as he attempts to find his place among his newfound peers and society, and solve a mystery bubbling up from the Florida swamps. All while showing off his half-bat features like sharp teeth and pointy ears — oh, and there's also the small matter of his thirst for human blood. Think Edward Scissorhands meets Nightmare Alley-esque.
