Peacock Orders Satanic Panic Drama With ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Duo Attached to Direct
variety.comJoe Otterson TV ReporterPeacock has given a straight-to-series order to the coming-of-age thriller “Hysteria!”The series hails from writer and executive producer Matthew Kane.
Chris Bender and Jake Weiner of Good Fear will also executive produce. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the writers and directors of the upcoming film “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” will direct and executive produce.
Scott Stoops will be supervising producer. UCP is the studio.According to an individual with knowledge of the project, Good Fear worked with Kane to develop the pilot script and series pitch.
They then attached Goldstein and Daley, as Bender and Weird have a past relationship with the filmmaking duo. In the show, a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the “Satanic Panic” of the late 1980s.
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