The newest live-action adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles is arriving on TV very soon. Ahead of its debut premiere, Comicbook.com has exclusively released a new sneak peek clip, which features the lead characters seeing a unicorn for the very first time.
In the official synopsis of The Spiderwick Chronicles, according to Comicbook.com, the Grace family transfers from Brooklyn, New York, to their old home in Henson, Michigan, which is named The Spiderwick Estate. Helen moves with her two fraternal twins, named Jared and Simon, and her eldest daughter, named Mallory. A few days after their move, Jared discovers the mysterious character of a boggart, realizing that magic is indeed real. The only person that believes him is the great-aunt named Lucinda who tells Jared that they are meant to find the pages of a field guide written by their father decades ago, which shows how to protect magical creatures from a murderous Ogre, named Mulgarath.
According to Comicbook.com, The Spiderwick Chronicles series did some moving before being officially produced. It was initially green-lit for production from Disney+, but they changed their mind, as it officially was taken by Roku in 2023. The series was produced by 20th Television & Paramount Television Studios. It’s currently the second live-action project. The first movie with the same name was produced in 2008, and starred Seth Rogen (Pam & Tommy, Invincible, Platonic) and Freddie Highmore (The Good Doctor, The Vault, Bates Motel).
According to Comicbook.com, the cast of The Spiderwick Chronicles includes stars Lyon Daniels (We Can Be Heroes), Joy Bryant (Parenthood, Cherish the Day, Good Girls Revolt), Mychala Faith Lee (Truth Be Told, The Price of Truth, End of the Road), Noah Cottrell (Punky Brewster, Skyscraper, Saturdays), Christian Slater (Rick And Morty, Chupa, Heathers), Alyvia Alyn Lind (Chucky, Daybreak, Overboard), and Jack Dylan Grazer (IT, Luca, IT chapter two).
According to Comicbook.com, the showrunner for the series is Aron Eli Coleite (Daybreak, Atlas, Locke & Key). Executive producers include Coleite, Tony DiTerlizzi (Charlotte’s Web), Holly Black (The Iron Trail), Kat Coiro (Marry Me, Life Happens, A Case of You), Jeremy Bell (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Escape Plan, Abduction), Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (The Maze Runner, Stephanie, No Good Deed), Julie Kane-Ritsch (Dear Dumb Diary, Dead Space: Downfall), Grace Gilroy (Bride Of Chucky, The Fog, 14 Hours), and D.J. Goldberg (Whiteout, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Factory).
According to Comicbook.com, the five-book series was written by DiTerlizzi and Black. The titles are the following: The Field Guide, The Seeing Stone, Lucinda’s Secret, the Ironwood Tree, and The Wrath of Mulgarath. There was also spinoff series published afterwards, named Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles. Furthermore, this spinoff series included new three novels, named The Nixie’s Song, A Giant Problem, and The Wyrm King. In an 2008 Fanbolt interview, DiTerlizzi and Black explained what the response to the books was and how they decided to become the executive producers for this upcoming series.
“Hol and I had received many letters from kids telling us of their experiences with faeries, and I had been making field guides to dragons and monsters since I was a kid, so we knew there was something magic there,” DiTerlizzi shared, via Comicbook.com. “And Holly knows that folklore so well. We thought it would be cool to tell a story of modern day kids thrust into the realm of faeries.”
“When Tony and I first met, one of the things we talked about was faery folklore so this was the perfect project for us to do together,” Black agreed, via Comicbook.com. “We love the idea that kids might take the Field Guide and go out into their back yards or parks and look for evidence of faeries. If they do, they’ll probably find it.”
The Spiderwick Chronicles will be available on April 19th on Roku.