Toronto’s Titan1Studios is developing a series adaptation of Peace River, inspired partly by the production house’s video game, Events at Unity Farm.

Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah (pictured right; Defund) has signed on as the writer and an executive producer of the series. Jon Cooksey (Supernatural Academy) and Titan1Studios’ Rathan Moorthy and Wes Ambrecht will also serve as executive producers.

Peace River (pictured) is set within Titan1Studios’ larger “multipocalypse universe” that originated in their flagship comic, Zomben. The story takes place in the late 1880s and follows a queer romance between two Black women who use science and the occult to fight off creatures and a resource-hungry corporation threatening the delicate spiritual balance in a Canadian town.

Roberts-Abdullah said in a statement that the project is a unique opportunity to put “two queer Black women front and centre,” adding that the “intersections of magic, Canadian colonial history and a good old-fashioned love story with a richly diverse cast of characters are an attempt to make up for the dearth of stories like this in my childhood.”

The Surinamese-born, Toronto-based actor, writer, director and producer was named on the Toronto International Film Festival’s Canada’s Top Ten list for shorts in 2021 with Defund. Her first short film P!GS will be available on CBC Gem this fall.

Titan1Studios’ slate includes development on an adaptation of Bridgette Dutta Portman’s novel series The Coseema Saga as well as the Zomben-inspired Deaducation and its game Love is a Roguelite, which received $249,999 from the Canada Media Fund. The cross-media content and technology studio hired Ambrecht in June as its new head of studio partnerships for film, TV, and gaming.

Image courtesy of Titan1Studios