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US-based Skybound Entertainment is working together with Viki, the global TV site powered by fans, to produce Five Year, a new series based on an original story by Walking Dead creator and Skybound CEO Robert Kirkman.
The pre-apocalyptic series about a family living under the threat of a deadly meteor heading toward Earth will be filmed as a Korean drama. It will debut its first 16-episode season on South Korean TV and will be made available worldwide through Viki.
Five Year is intended to run for five seasons. Filming will begin later this year. It is currently on the market for a South Korean broadcast partner and other platforms.
Five Year is the second original series produced by Viki, a unit of Japanese Internet services company Rakuten with offices in San Francisco, Singapore, Seoul and Tokyo.
"This has been a story I have wanted to tell for quite some time, but (Skybound co-founder David Alpert) and I wanted to make sure it found a proper home where it could grow and breathe creatively,” Kirkman said in a statement released in the US.
"Looking at what Viki has done in not only the dramatic series space but transforming the way viewers consume and translate media, we knew immediately Five Year had found its home," he said.
Walking Dead is an American horror drama television series developed by Frank Darabont, based on the comic book series of the same name.
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