Sweet Tooth Featurette: Robert Downey Jr. Discusses Changes to Series May 11, 2021
The first behind-the-scenes featurette for Netflix’s upcoming series adaptation of Jeff Lemire’s DC comic book
Sweet Tooth has been released, featuring interviews by executive producers Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey along with Lemire and showrunner Jim Mickle. The Downeys confirmed that the
Sweet Tooth series would be slightly different from the source material as it will have a bit of a lighter tone than the graphic novel’s darker and foreboding tone. The series will be available for streaming on June 4. Check out the video in the player below!
Sweet Tooth EPs Robert Downey Jr. & Susan Downey Talk Netflix Series
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Jeff Lemire s comic book series
Sweet Tooth was released, Lemire shared a post showcasing the first time he met
Christian Convery (Gus) as well as the time he spent with Sweet Tooth s other two dads,
Will Forte and director
Jim Mickle. Set to premiere next month, the series introduces viewers to Gus- part deer, part boy- who leaves his home in the forest to find the outside world ravaged by a cataclysmic event. He joins a ragtag family of humans and animal-children hybrids like himself in search of answers about this new world and the mystery behind his hybrid origins. Now, Lemire is being joined by executive producers
Avengers: Endgame and is now taking on another comic-book project with the competition.
The trailer for his newest show
Sweet Tooth just dropped, an adaptation of a DC comic which he is executive producing for Netflix with his wife Susan Downey and their production company Team Downey. Netflix
The eight-part series will tell the story of Gus (played by
Legion star Christian Convery), a young boy who was born half human and half deer. He was raised in his sheltered home in the woods which he leaves to find that the world has been torn apart by a cataclysmic event.
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The sequence of events then leads to various glimpses of the title character, Gus (Christian Convery), on the run from murderous hunters looking to track him and others down. This is a story. about a very special boy, Brolin continues. A boy we d come to know. as Sweet Tooth.
Fantasy drama: Sweet Tooth takes place in a lush, post-apocalyptic world consisting of hybrids babies born part human and part animal
Shocking: The trailer begins with Dr. Aditya Singh (Adeel Akhtar) at work in the maternity ward of a hospital, seemingly startled to see the birth of the hybrids