Netflix will debut an animated special for The Last Kids on Earth on September 17th – the same day the latest book in the namesake best-selling series drops. Netflix’s adaptation is based on the New York Times best-selling book series by Max Brallier, who serves as a showrunner on the Netflix title. The story follows 13-year-old Jack Sullivan (voiced by Nick Wolfhard) and a band of suburban middle schoolers who live in a decked-out tree house, play video games, gorge themselves on candy, and battle zombies in the aftermath of the monster apocalypse.

The special will followed by a series with an all-star voice cast including Mark Hamill, Rosario Dawson and Catherine O’Hara.

Atomic cartoons acquired The Last Kids on Earth in 2017, and the animated series was ordered to series by Netflix in February 2018. Brallier is participating in the series as creator and executive producer, along with Scott Peterson, who is the showrunner and also an executive producer. Matthew Berkowitz and Jennifer Twiner McCarron are executive producers on the show on behalf of Atomic.

Here’s the trailer for the series:

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Writer, cartoon producer and author of more than 15 books on animation history. A former studio exec with Nickelodeon and Disney; currently on the faculty at both CalArts in Valencia and Woodbury University in Burbank, California.

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