Netflix Orders 'Sid & Zoey' YA Series From Blumhouse, Bad Robot
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- Netflix ordered "Sid & Zoey," an eight-episode supernatural mystery romance YA series from creators Jon Kasdan and John Shiban, with Blumhouse Atomic Monster serving as studio and Bad Robot co-producing.
- The series was revealed as part of Netflix's newly announced YA content hub featuring several hundred original or licensed titles focused on coming-of-age stories.
- Kasdan and Shiban serve as showrunners and executive produce alongside J.J. Abrams and Rachel Rusch Rich for Bad Robot and Jason Blum, James Wan, and Rob Hackett for Blumhouse Atomic Monster; the order followed what the announcement called a "highly competitive" development deal.
- The premise follows Sid, a seductive, amoral New York teenager sent to live with a Mississippi police chief and his sharp-witted, punk-rock daughter Zoey, where the pair uncover a supernatural mystery beneath the town's picture-postcard surface.
- Kasdan's prior credits include co-writing the screenplay for 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story and writing/directing The First Time and In The Land of Women; Shiban was a writer and executive producer on Ozark and directed episodes of NOS4A2 and Better Call Saul.
- Casting has not yet been announced.
Why it matters: Netflix pairs two prestige genre producers — Blumhouse (horror) and Bad Robot (mystery/sci-fi) — for a YA series scripted by the co-writer of Solo: A Star Wars Story and an Ozark veteran, with J.J. Abrams, Jason Blum, and James Wan all as executive producers. The order also anchors Netflix's new YA hub of several hundred titles, signaling a coordinated push into the young-adult category where the streamer is competing with established YA-focused platforms.
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