{"id":271118,"date":"2019-04-11T15:29:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1031941"},"modified":"2019-04-11T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:29:20","slug":"love-simon-is-becoming-a-tv-series-on-disney-but-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/love-simon-is-becoming-a-tv-series-on-disney-but-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Love, Simon Is Becoming a TV Series on Disney+, But With a Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Disney+ is turning a recent beloved romcom into a brand new TV series!<\/p>\n

Love, Simon<\/em> premiered to rave reviews last year, and now Disney is taking the sequel to the 20th Century Fox film in a bit of a different direction with a series on its new streaming service, per THR<\/a>. The movie will have an all new cast, and will be based on the sequel to the book the first movie was based on. Greg Berlanti<\/strong>, who directed the movie, will also not be involved, due to his overall deal at Warner Bros. <\/p>\n

However, screenwriters Elizabeth Berger<\/strong> and Isaac Aptaker<\/strong>, who are also the showrunners on This Is Us<\/em>, will return to run the series.<\/p>\n

The film was based on the book Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda<\/em> by Becky Albertalli<\/strong>, and the second book is called Leah on the Offbeat<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Love, Simon focused on Simon (Nick Robinson<\/strong>), a closeted high school student who is outed by another student and begins an anonymous online romance with a classmate. Katherine Langford<\/strong> played Leah, Simon’s best friend. Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner played Simon’s parents, and Keiynan Lonsdale, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., and Alexandra Shipp played Simon’s other friends. <\/p>\n

Leah on the Offbeat<\/em> was released in 2018 and follows Leah “and her attempts to deal with various personal issues including friendships and relationships, body image, sexuality, self-esteem, going to college and feeling like an outsider.” <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Disney+ will include all of Disney’s movie and TV content, plus content from Fox (after Disney bought Fox), plus new original series made specifically for the platform. The Love, Simon<\/em> series joins a previously announced live action Star Wars<\/em> series by Jon Favreau<\/a><\/strong> called The Mandalorian, starring Pedro Pascal, and an adaptation of the book Timmy Failure<\/em>. It was also just announced that Hawkeye of the Avengers will be getting his own live action series, starring Jeremy Renner<\/a><\/strong>. We can also expect limited series about the Falcon and Winter Soldier, Loki, Vision, and Scarlet Witch.<\/p>\n

The service will also be the home of the new High School Musical<\/em><\/a> series. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Rothstein\/20th Century Fox Disney+ is turning a recent beloved romcom into a brand new TV series! Love, Simon premiered to rave reviews last year, and now Disney is taking the sequel to the 20th Century Fox film in a bit of a different direction with a series on its new streaming service, per THR. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-14 18:27:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}