Christopher Monfette is writing the show and will also be the executive producer and showrunner.
Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, and Robert Atwood from 21 Laps are also executive producers, along with Dmitri M.Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg, and Timothy I.Stevenson from Story Kitchen.Toru Nakahara from SEGA is also an executive producer.Emily Feher is managing the project for 21 Laps, which is currently under an overall TV deal with Netflix.
Netflix has not made any comments about the project.
The "Persona" games are very popular RPGs.
Each game has a different story, but they usually follow Japanese high school students who go through daily life, build friendships, and fight supernatural threats.
The games were created by P-Studios, part of Atlus, and published by Sega.
There have been six main games so far, and the seventh, "Persona 6," is set for release in June 2026.There are also 15 spinoff games in the series.The "Persona" games started as a spinoff of the "Shin Megami Tensei" series, with the first "Persona" game, "Revelations: Persona," released in 1996.The most recent game was "Persona 5: The Phantom X" in 2025, and "Persona 4 Revival" is coming out in February 2027.
If this series goes ahead, it would not be the first Netflix show based on a video game.
Netflix produced the live-action "The Witcher" series, as well as animated shows like "Arcane," "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners," and "Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft."
Monfette has worked on shows like "12 Monkeys" on Syfy, "Star Trek: Picard" on Paramount+, and "9-1-1" on Fox and ABC.
He is also writing and co-producing the upcoming Marvel Disney+ series "VisionQuest."
On the TV side, 21 Laps is best known for creating the hit Netflix series "Stranger Things," which ended after five seasons.
The show helped make Netflix originals popular and showed that streaming series can be just as good as TV shows from traditional networks.21 Laps has also made other shows like "The Perfect Couple" and "Last Man Standing," and has produced movies like "Backrooms" and "Deadpool & Wolverine," with Levy directing and co-writing the latter.
Story Kitchen was started in 2022 by "Sonic the Hedgehog" producer Johnson and his former partner Goldberg.
The company also includes veteran production executive Stevenson and creative executive Elena Sandoval.They focus on turning video game and other non-traditional IP into TV and film.Their current projects include live-action versions of "Tomb Raider" and "Life Is Strange," both set up at Amazon Prime Video.
Monfette is represented by Industry Entertainment.
21 Laps is represented by WME and Ziffren Brittenham.Story Kitchen is represented by WME and Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn.
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