Amazon is continuing its work developing series adaptations of hit podcasts by acquiring the rights to Gimlet’s The Horror of Delores Roach, which they are developing in partnership with Blumhouse Television, according to Deadline.
The podcast itself is based on Mark’s one-woman play Empanada Loca which starred Daphne Rubin-Vega, a breakout star of Broadway’s Rent.
The series, which is being showrun by Home Before Dark co-creator Dara Resnik, is a Sweeney Todd-inspired tale of Eat or Be Eaten, an urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism and survival of the fittest.
Resnik is set to develop the series alongside podcast creator Aaron Mark, who signed a first-look deal with Blumhosue, which won the rights to adapt the podcast last year in a heated bidding war.