'Among Us' Animated Series From 'Infinity Train' Creator Owen Dennis In The Works

Get ready for impostor frogs in impostor hats

CBS Studios, through CBS Eye Animation Productions, has partnered with independent game studio Innersloth to develop an Among Us animated series based on the latter’s popular video game.

The series’s official logline tells of the game’s premise, stating “Members of your crew have been replaced by an alien shapeshifter intent on causing confusion, sabotaging the ship, and killing everyone. Root out the “Impostor” or fall victim to its murderous designs.” Titmouse, whose full series work started with Metalocalypse and now includes Frog and Toad, Pupstruction, Royal Crackers, with dozens of titles in the intervening years, will serve as the animation studio for the series.

Owen Dennis will serve as creator and executive producer on the project under his overall deal with CBS Studios. He was previously at Cartoon Network, as a writer and storyboard artist for Regular Show before creating Infinity Train, which spent its latter two seasons on HBO Max before being canceled. The show has not returned to the service since its August removal. Along with Dennis, Innersloth’s Forest Willard, Marcus Bromander, and Carl Neisser will also executive produce with Titmouse’s Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio, and Ben Kalina. The network or streamer to pick up the show has yet to be determined. The show, like most animated shows, is covered by The Animation Guild rather than the Writers Guild of America.

While Among Us first launched in 2018, the game saw a massive spike in popularity in the early parts of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. By October of that year, it was top-ranked on Google Play in 66 countries and in the top 100 in all but two countries. It was also top-ranked for iOS in 55 countries. During 2020’s final quarter, the game had nearly 500 million monthly active players, more than 4 billion YouTube views, and more than 1.2 billion Twitch streams.

Source: Variety