My Friend Pedro is being made into a TV show

July 6th, 2020 - 11:27am

By Alex Calvin, PCGamesInsider Contributing Editor

Devolver Digital's My Friend Pedro is going to be coming to TV screens.

The venture is coming about via a partnership between Legendary Television, dj2 Entertainment and 87North Productions. John Wick co-creator Derek Kolstad (pictured) is an executive producer as well as a writer on the show. He previously said that he was working on a pitch for a My Friend Pedro TV series earlier this year.

Legendary acquired the right via a deal with dj2, which previously produced the Sonic the Hedgehog film and recently signed the rights to fellow indie hit Disco Elysium.

It was recently revealed that Amazon had signed on to potentially make a show based on Bethesda's Fallout IP.

My Friend Pedro launched in June 2019 for PC and Nintendo Switch, selling 250,000 copies in its first week. Within four months, the game had shifted 500,000 units.

We caught up with developer Deadtoast aka Victor Agren about the title's early success shortly after release.

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Alex Calvin

PCGamesInsider Contributing Editor

Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.