Lion Forge to Expand Lostlings to Long-Form

Lion Forge Entertainment has signed a deal with TalesVision to adapt its short-form YouTube series Lostlings into a long-form series.

TalesVision founders Tristan Tales and Luke Pounder will write all episodes for the first season and serve as showrunners. Lostlings is set in a town where, every year, a teenager mysteriously vanishes without a trace, only to return exactly one year later with no memory of where they were or what happened while they were gone.

When Jesse becomes the latest victim and the first “Lostling” to not return after one year, a group of his friends set out to rescue him and free their town from its curse once and for all.

The long-form series will premiere on the TalesVision YouTube channel before it becomes available on traditional streaming and linear platforms in second windows around the world. Production is set to begin this summer.

“Tristan and Luke are amazing creators who meet the audiences where they are,” said Stephanie Sperber, chief creative officer of Lion Forge, who will executive produce the new series. “They have a unique ability to create content that is high-quality, super watchable, globally appealing and spot-on for the YA audience. We are very enthusiastic about their YouTube-first model and are looking forward to exploring more IP through their ‘pocket pilot’ model.”

“When I watched the pocket pilot for Lostlings I was hooked,” commented David Steward II, CEO and founder of Lion Forge and executive producer of the new series. “We see this as the first project in a strategic partnership to develop YA-focused live-action content working with some of the best YouTube creators in the business. We’re happy to make this investment and feel confident that this approach is a smart path forward in the future of live-action development and content distribution—especially for YA audiences.”

Tales and Pounder added, “From day one, Lion Forge understood that this wasn’t just about adapting a social media hit—it was about reimagining how stories are discovered, built and delivered. Stephanie, David and the team immediately embraced our YouTube-first strategy, allowing us to deliver the series where our fans discovered it first. We’re hopeful that this partnership will become a blueprint for how future IP can grow—digitally-native and community-driven from the start.”