{"id":13324,"date":"2020-06-17T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/descender-ascender-comics-land-tv-deal\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:36:19","slug":"descender-ascender-comics-land-tv-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/descender-ascender-comics-land-tv-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Descender &#038; Ascender Comics Land TV Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lark Productions has acquired the exclusive television rights to the Image Comics series <em>Descender<\/em> and its <em>Ascender<\/em> sequel series, from New York Times best-selling author Jeff Lemire and comic artist Dustin Nguyen.<\/p>\n<p>The series will be developed and produced by Lark Productions, which NBCUniversal International Studios owns an equity stake in. <em>Descender<\/em> follows Tim-21, a lovable, optimistic companion robot who is thrust into a hostile cosmos when he discovers that he\u2019s the missing link between a fleet of life-annihilating constructs and modern robotics. <em>Ascender<\/em> features a young girl, Mila, who must embark on an epic quest to find robotkind and its fabled boy messiah, Tim-21, before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n<p>Lemire said, \u201cThe world of <em>Descender<\/em> and <em>Ascender<\/em> just keeps growing, and Dustin and I are very happy to be working with Lark to bring it to televisions screens as well. Their passion for the comics and devotion to telling the story the right way has us both very excited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen added, &#8220;It feels like we&#8217;ve lived with Tim-21 and Mila for the past five years. It&#8217;s definitely going to be an entirely new adventure to see our characters come to life onscreen and share them with a whole new audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to be collaborating with the creative powerhouse team of Jeff and Dustin\u201d,\u00a0added Erin Haskett, president od Lark Productions.\u00a0\u201c<em>Descender<\/em>\/<em>Ascender<\/em> is a beautifully crafted saga, examining the tolls of technology on nature and humanity, which feels very timely for television. Tim-21 and Mila\u2019s epic journey of self-discovery brings us hope for humanity and reminds us of the importance and value of love and family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lark Productions has acquired the exclusive television rights to the Image Comics series Descender and its Ascender sequel series, from New York Times best-selling author Jeff Lemire and comic artist Dustin Nguyen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":13325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[3922],"class_list":["post-13324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-lark-productions","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Descender &amp; Ascender Comics Land TV Deal - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/descender-ascender-comics-land-tv-deal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Descender &amp; 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