{"id":482585,"date":"2026-06-08T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/482585\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:20:08","slug":"jem-and-the-holograms-live-action-series-in-works-at-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/482585\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Jem And The Holograms’ Live-Action Series In Works At Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Here is some \u201ctruly outrageous\u201d news: Jem And The Holograms<\/a> is making a comeback. An elevated live-action take on the beloved 1980s animated series is in development at Amazon<\/a> MGM Studios with Lisa Joy<\/a> and Jonathan Nolan\u2019s studio-based Kilter Films<\/a> (Westworld, Fallout) producing. The project comes from Hasbro<\/a> Entertainment which took it out in late 2025. <\/p>\n

\n\tAmazon quickly emerged as the likely buyer, with Joy and Kilter\u2019s attachment rumored from early on. It took months for that to become official and for deals to close. <\/p>\n

\n\tExecutive producing the live-action Jem and the Holograms series are Joy, Nolan and Athena Wickham for Kilter Films and Gabriel Marano for Hasbro Entertainment.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sale to Amazon comes 41 years after the Jem And The Holograms animated series (aka Jem), created by Christy Marx, debuted in 1985. Designed to capitalize on the rise of music videos following the launch of MTV, the show followed record company owner Jerrica Benton and her alter-ego Jem, lead singer of the rock group Jem and The Holograms. It featured music videos in every episode and a slew of original songs, including the theme \u201cTruly Outrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring its three-season run, Jem ranked as the most watched cartoon syndicated series, outperforming such staples in the genre as Transformers and He-Man. Jem\u2018s popularity did not fade after the 1988 finale as it remained one of the most-watched syndicated kids\u2019 programs throughout the 1990s, with album releases, comic book series, and JemCon, a fan-run convention now in its 20th year, keeping its legacy alive.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe IP was previously unsuccessfully rebooted with Universal\/Blumhouse\u2019s 2015 live-action movie Jem and the Holograms, directed and produced by Jon M. Chu and starring Aubrey Peeples in the title role.<\/p>\n

\n\tJem And The Holograms is joining Prime Video\u2019s growing slate of female-driven YA\/coming-of-age content, including recent breakout Off Campus and established hits The Summer I Turned Pretty, We Were Liars and the Culpables franchise. Kilter is co-producing one of the streamer\u2019s highest-profile upcoming coming-of-age series, Fourth Wing, with Joy set to direct the opening episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tKilter Films, which has an overall deal at Amazon MGM Studios, is also behind Prime Video\u2019s popular and critically praised post-apocalyptic drama series Fallout, which is headed to its third season.<\/p>\n

\n\tHasbro Entertainment\u2019s slate includes The Forgotten Realms,\u00a0a live-action Dungeons & Dragons series at Netflix with Shawn Levy producing, Baldur\u2019s Gate, also set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons<\/a>, in the works at HBO with Craig Mazin writing and executive producing, and a Power Rangers live-action series in development at Disney+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Here is some \u201ctruly outrageous\u201d news: Jem And The Holograms is making a comeback. An elevated live-action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1457,146,60926,85,46,223477,223478,223479],"class_list":["post-482585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amazon","tag-entertainment","tag-hasbro","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jem-and-the-holograms","tag-kilter-films","tag-lisa-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}