Berlanti Productions and Netflix are teaming up for The Grays, inspired by Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

Back within the Eighteen Nineties, author Oscar Wilde introduced the world a story known as The Picture of Dorian Gray – and now the Netflix streaming service has introduced that they’re teaming up with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television on a new TV series known as The Grays, which ComicBook.com hears might be “a modern tackle the Oscar Wilde basic about our fascination with everlasting youth set in opposition to the backdrop of the trendy magnificence trade.“

The Picture of Dorian Gray has the next description: Combining parts of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the guide facilities on a putting premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his physique retains good youth and vigor whereas his lately painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous file of evil, which he should maintain hidden from the world.

Supergirl alum Katie Rose Rogers and All American‘s Robbie Rogers, who’re siblings who beforehand labored collectively on Fellow Travelers, are writing The Grays. In a twist on the gothic novel, the series revolves round siblings Basil and Doran Gray.

Berlanti Productions’ Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman are producing the present, which has The Vicious Kind, Celeste & Jesse Forever, and The Age of Adaline director Lee Toland Krieger on board to direct the pilot episode. Krieger has additionally labored on a number of different Berlanti-produced exhibits. Rina Mimoun, whose earlier credit embody being a supervising producer on Everwood, creating and government producing Privileged, and government producing Mistresses, will function showrunner.

Berlanti Productions has been behind the likes of All American, All American: Homecoming, You, Superman & Lois, Dead Boy Detectives, Everwood, Brothers & Sisters, Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Riverdale, Black Lightning, Titans, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Doom Patrol, Batwoman, Stargirl, The Flight Attendant, Kung Fu, and Gotham Knights, amongst others. They’re additionally working with Netflix on a live-action Scooby-Doo TV series.

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