Beloved 1980s Animated Series Set for Live-Action Remake From Fallout and Westworld Showrunners
Kilter Films is producing the series as Amazon MGM Studios expands Prime Video’s female-driven YA slate.
- Amazon MGM Studios is developing an "elevated live-action technothriller series" based on the 1980s cartoon Jem and the Holograms, with Kilter Films producing the project.
- Created by Christy Marx, the animated series debuted in 1985 and followed record company owner Jerrica Benton, who moonlights as singer of the rock band Jem and the Holograms.
- Executive producing are Kilter's Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, and Athena Wickham, alongside Gabriel Marano for Hasbro Entertainment; a 2015 film adaptation failed to recoup its $5 million budget.
- Jem joins Prime Video's growing slate of female-driven coming-of-age content, including established hits The Summer I Turned Pretty and We Were Liars.
- Hasbro is expanding its IP portfolio with other live-action adaptations, including a Dungeons & Dragons series at Netflix with producer Shawn Levy and a Power Rangers project at Disney+.
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Beloved 1980s animated series set for live-action remake from Fallout and Westworld showrunners
It has been reported that classic 1980s animated series Jem, also known as Jem and The Holograms, is getting a live-action remake, with it currently being in development at Amazon MGM Studios.According to Deadline, the reboot is being produced by Kilter Films, the company run by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan which has previously been behind Westworld and Fallout. The project also comes from Hasbro Entertainment.Jem, which was created by Christy Ma…
After years of silence and a movie adaptation quickly ended in oblivion, Jem and the Holograms are preparing to return. Amazon MGM Studios is developing a new live action series inspired by the famous cartoon of the eighties, entrusting the project to Kilter Films, the production house of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. A choice that lets you imagine a very different approach from the past and that could finally give new life to a franchise loved f…
Amazon MGM Studios is developing a series of real action of the eight-year animation ‘Jem and the Holograms’, reported Monday the specialized medium Deadline. The project was acquired in 2025 by the studio from Hasbro Entertainment and will be produced by Kilter Films, the studio of Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, also responsible for the [...] The entry Amazon prepares a series of real action of the eight-year animation Jem and the Holograms was f…
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