Nancy Drew fans will now have one more titular detective and his adventures to look forward to. According to Variety, the female teen detective’s spin-off series, Tom Swift, has been ordered to series at The CW.
Tom Swift has appeared in Edward Stratemeyer’s novels since Nancy Drew’s inception. Simon and Schuster also published an entire series based on Tom Swift in 2019.
For decades, Nancy Drew has served as a companion to many young fans, especially girls, worldwide. The series was considered the female version of the popular teen mystery novels Hardy Boys.
Tian Richards will essay the role of the black, gay, millionaire inventor Tom Swift. However, this is not the first time viewers will be seeing him in live-action. Richards appeared as Swift in the Nancy Drew Season 2 episode titled ‘The Celestial Visitor.’ The episode is meant to serve as a backdoor pilot for the upcoming series.
Meanwhile, LeVar Burton will be voicing Tom’s A.I., Barclay. With Barclay, Tom will explore the sci-fi world full of conspiracy and venture on a quest to find the truth. Tom’s genius flair for innovation will come in handy as he tries to stay a step ahead of an Illuminati-sized group wanting to stop him at all costs.
The spin-off series has been in talks since October 2020. Now that the show has been ordered to series, fans can expect the show to debut anytime around 2021-2022.
However, The CW is known to create an out-of-the-ordinary storyline, such as with the Archie-comics-inspired Riverdale. There are high chances the network will give Tom Swift an unconventional storyline, too, by only keeping the basic plot together.
Black representation on screen is another reason that has the viewers excited. Conventionally, the storylines of Hardy Boys and even Nancy Drew were centered around straight, white people. To have a black and an LGBT representation on screen already shows the different route Tom Swift might take.
The upcoming series will be created by Nancy Drew’s co-creators and executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, under Fake Empire and CBS Studios.
About Tom Swift
Tom Swift is an upcoming spin-off series based on the popular teen detective, Nancy Drew. The character was created by Edward Stratemeyer, Tom Swift has six series of adventure novels, started from 1910 till 2019.
Tom Swift’s spin-off series will pay emphasis on science, invention and technology, much like the original novels. The cast includes Tian Richards as the millionaire inventor Tom Swift and LeVar Burton voicing his A.I. companion, Barclay.
The series is co-created and produced by by Melinda Hsu Taylor and Noga Landau with Cameron Johnson. Fake Empire’s Josh Shwartz, Stephanie Savage and Lis Rowinski are executive producer’s too.
The series revolves around a gay, black, millionaire inventor who’s forced into a world of sci-fi conspiracy and strange phenomenon, after his father disappears. His innovative skills and genius mind will help him navigate the world as he seeks to unravel mysteries, especially from an Illuminati-scale cult trying to stop him.
Source: Variety
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