{"id":501918,"date":"2026-03-03T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501918\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:10:08","slug":"life-is-strange-tv-series-casts-maisy-stella-tatum-grace-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501918\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Life Is Strange’ TV Series Casts Maisy Stella, Tatum Grace Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe \u201cLife Is Strange<\/a>\u201d series adaptation at Amazon Prime Video<\/a> has found its two leads. <\/p>\n

\n\tVariety has learned exclusively that Maisy Stella<\/a> and Tatum Grace Hopkins have been cast in the roles of Chloe and Max, respectively. The show was first reported to be set up at Prime Video<\/a> in September 2025. <\/p>\n

\n\tPer the official logline, the show follows Max (Hopkins), \u201ca photography student, who discovers she can rewind time while saving the life of her childhood best friend, Chloe (Stella). As she struggles to understand this new skill, the pair investigate the mysterious disappearance of a fellow student, uncovering a dark side to their town that will ultimately force them to make an impossible life or death choice that will impact them forever.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAs previously reported, the show will be written by Charlie Covell, who also serves as executive producer and showrunner. Dmitri M. Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg, and Timothy I. Stevenson will executive produce under their Story Kitchen banner. The series comes from Square Enix, Story Kitchen, and LuckyChap, with Amazon MGM Studios producing.<\/p>\n

\n\tHopkins will be making her television debut with \u201cLife Is Strange.\u201d She has primarily worked on the stage up until now, including starring in the Broadway productions \u201cThe Queen of Versailles\u201d and \u201cFor the Girls.\u201d She also starred in the short film \u201cMeek,\u201d which premiered at the Montclair Film Festival in 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tStella is an accomplished musician, but in terms of acting, her biggest TV role to date was her time on the hit ABC music drama \u201cNashville,\u201d in which she played Daphne Conrad for the show\u2019s entire six season run. She made her film debut in the critically-acclaimed feature \u201cMy Old Ass\u201d opposite Aubrey Plaza in 2024, which earned Stella an Independent Spirit Award. She followed that up with a role in Maude Apatow\u2019s feature directorial debut, \u201cPoetic License.\u201d That film debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2025 and will be released in the U.S. later this year. Likewise, she will appear in the feature \u201cFlowervale Street\u201d alongside Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, also due to premiere later this year. <\/p>\n

\n\tStella is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360, Narrative, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead. Hopkins is repped by CESD & PH Entertainment Group. Covell is repped by UTA, Lark Mgmt and Hansen Jacobson.
Story Kitchen is repped by WME and Pryor Cashman. LuckyChap is\u00a0repped by\u00a0Entertainment 360, CAA, attorney Jeff Bernstein, and Narrative. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt was reported in January that \u201cLife is Strange: Reunion,\u201d which will be the conclusion of Chloe and Max\u2019s story, will launch on March 26<\/a> on Xbox Series X|S and PC. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe first \u201cLife Is Strange\u201d game was released in 2015 to positive reviews, industry praise and award nominations and wins. In 2023, it was reported that the game had reached over 20 million total players. The original game was followed by the prequel \u201cLife Is Strange: Before the Storm\u201d in 2017. \u201cThe Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit\u201d and \u201cLife Is Strange 2,\u201d which focused on new characters, were released in 2018. These were followed by another standalone game, \u201cLife Is Strange: True Colors,\u201d in 2021. \u201cLife Is Strange: Double Exposure,\u201d which once again featured Max as the protagonist, came out in 2024. The games were developed by Don\u2019t Nod Entertainment and later Deck Nine with Square Enix serving as publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cLife Is Strange\u201d series adaptation at Amazon Prime Video has found its two leads. Variety has learned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4856,88,84864,228729],"class_list":["post-501918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amazon-prime-video","tag-entertainment","tag-life-is-strange","tag-maisy-stella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}