Netflix is developing a live-action adaptation of the popular “Persona” video game series, according to sources cited by Variety.
Christopher Monfette has been tapped to write the series and will also serve as executive producer and showrunner.
Additional executive producers include Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, and Robert Atwood from 21 Laps Entertainment, along with Dmitri M. Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg, and Timothy I. Stevenson of Story Kitchen.
Toru Nakahara from SEGA is also attached as an executive producer.
Emily Feher is supervising the project on behalf of 21 Laps, which currently holds an overall television deal with Netflix.
Netflix had no comment on the report.
About the “Persona” Franchise
“Persona” is a highly successful role-playing game (RPG) series.
While story details differ between installments, the games generally follow Japanese high school students balancing everyday life, social relationships, and friendships alongside battles against supernatural forces.
The series is developed by P-Studio (a studio under Atlus) and published by Sega.
It includes six mainline entries so far, with Persona 6 officially announced as being in development in June 2026. There are also around 15 spinoff titles.
The franchise began as a spinoff of the Shin Megami Tensei series, with the first game (Revelations: Persona) releasing in 1996.
The latest release was
Persona 5: The Phantom X in 2025, and Persona 4 Revival is scheduled for February 2027.
If greenlit, this would add to Netflix’s growing list of video game-based projects, which already includes the live-action
The Witcher series and animated hits such as
Arcane,
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft.
Key Talent Backgrounds
Monfette’s previous television credits include writing for
12 Monkeys (Syfy),
Star Trek: Picard (Paramount+), and
9-1-1 (Fox/ABC).
He is also attached as writer and co-executive producer on the upcoming Marvel series VisionQuest for Disney+.
21 Laps Entertainment is best known for producing the massive Netflix hit Stranger Things, which wrapped after five seasons and played a major role in establishing the success of streaming originals.
The company has also worked on shows like The Perfect Couple and Last Man Standing, as well as films including Backrooms and Deadpool & Wolverine (which Levy directed and co-wrote).
Story Kitchen, founded in 2022 by Sonic the Hedgehog producer Dmitri M. Johnson, former agency executive Michael Lawrence Goldberg, and production veteran Timothy I. Stevenson (along with creative executive Elena Sandoval), focuses on adapting video games and other non-traditional intellectual properties for film and TV.
Its current projects include a live-action Tomb Raider series and a Life Is Strange adaptation, both in development at Amazon Prime Video.
Representation:
- Christopher Monfette is represented by Industry Entertainment.
- 21 Laps is represented by WME and Ziffren Brittenham.
- Story Kitchen is represented by WME and Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn.
