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‘Lore Olympus’ Animated Series Based On Webtoon Title Ordered By Prime Video

Lore Olympus, with over 1.8 billion views and multiple awards, will join Prime Video’s adult animation slate produced by Webtoon and The Jim Henson Company.

  • Recently, Amazon Prime Video ordered an animated series adaptation of Lore Olympus, the Webtoon webcomic by Rachel Smythe, which will premiere exclusively in more than 240 countries and territories.
  • The project, in development since 2019, caps a process lasting more than half a decade and joins Prime Video's adult animation lineup alongside Invincible and Hazbin Hotel .
  • The production team includes executive producers David Madden, Sydney Bright, Aron Levitz, Lisa Henson and Halle Stanford, with Julia Cooperman as writer, showrunner, and executive producer, and Delaney Shiokari overseeing production.
  • The series order positions Lore Olympus to reach new viewers and longtime readers, with Melissa Wolfe saying Prime Video aims to bring the story to more fans and longtime readers while tapping a passionate global fandom.
  • Per Webtoon, Lore Olympus has amassed more than 1.8 billion global views since debuting in 2017, began on Tumblr, and retells Persephone and Hades with the official series logline `Witness what the gods do&after dark.
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Variety broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Tuesday, January 20, 2026.
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