Lyrical Media & James Tynion IV’s Tiny Onion Expanding Partnership With Development Of Horror Films ‘Exquisite Corpses’ & ‘Room Service’

EXCLUSIVE: Lyrical Media and James Tynion IV ‘s Tiny Onion are teaming to develop two a pair of horror films based on works from Tynion: an adaptation of his new bestselling horror comic book series Exquisite Corpses , as well a take on his short film and one-shot comic, . Room Service Tynion, the five-time Eisner Award-winning writer behind Something is Killing the Children , The Nice House on the Lake , and The Department of Truth , launched Tiny Onion in 2023 with a seed investment from Lyrical Media, the banner behind upcoming A24 films The Death of Robin Hood and Onslaught , to serve as a cross-platform incubator for his original IP. The new films expand that relationship, formalizing Lyrical as a key producing partner across multiple mediums. Exquisite Corpses is a horror franchise centered on a deadly game played every five years on Halloween, when the wealthiest families in America unleash 12 of the world’s most dangerous killers on an unsuspecting town. The first season of the comic book series, published by Image Comics and co-created by artist Michael Walsh, has already become a breakout hit, selling more than 500,000 copies to date. Exquisite Corpses also became the highest-selling original IP launch of the year in the comic book direct market, marking Tynion’s best debut in over three years. A companion trading card game, Exquisite Corpses: The Game , is in development for release this summer. Lyrical Media and Tiny Onion envision the property as a franchise starter with expansive potential across live-action film, animation, and video games, and are currently packaging the feature with A-list talent. Watch on Deadline Tynion will produce Exquisite Corpses for Tiny Onion, alongside Alexander Black and Arlen Konopaki for Lyrical Media, with Michael Walsh and Lyrical’s Jon Rosenberg exec producing. Room Service originated as a Kickstarter-crowdfunded short film, co-created by artist Elsa Charretier and director PK Colinet, about a sinister hotel service that allows its clients to commit their ideal murder scenarios. In addition to the short film, Tynion and his collaborators released a prequel one-shot comic, published by Image Comics. Tynion will co-write the feature script with filmmaker Colinet. Exquisite Corpses and Room Service join an aggressive development slate for both Tynion IV and Tiny Onion. In October, it was announced that Blumhouse Productions had optioned Tynion’s bestselling comics horror franchise, Something is Killing the Children , to adapt both for film and for an animated television series, with Tynion attached to produce alongside the series publisher Boom! Studios. In December, Tiny Onion announced an animation slate including an adaptation of Tynion’s Image Comics series W0rldtr33 at Netflix, an adaptation of his Boom! Studios series The Woods , and Tipsy Dragon , an original adult animated comedy series developed with production company Irony Point. “When I first started Tiny Onion, the most important thing to me was finding likeminded partners to build incredible worlds with,” said Tynion. “Lyrical has been there every step of the way, and I could not...

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