Stephanie Beatriz & Costa Ronin To Lead Kyle Killen ‘Multi-Chapter’ Sci-Fi Series ‘The Disco Ball’ For Online Platform StoryCo
14.11.2023 - 17:13
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Stephanie Beatriz and Costa Ronin are fronting a sci-fi series for online storytelling platform StoryCo, with Halo showrunner Kyle Killen attached.
In The Disco Ball, Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine Nine, Encanto) will play Captain Alma Cooke, who leads a team of astronauts thrust into a journey to save the multiverse. Ronin (The Americans, Homeland) also stars, with Lionel Boyce (The Bear), Baron Ryan and Teddy Sears (The Flash, Masters of Sex) in supporting roles.
The first chapter launches today as the debut project on StoryCo, a collaborative online platform that allows creatives to create multimedia stories and build communities around them. A multi-chapter arc will unfold over the next several months, with creators from around the world collaborating with Killen and others to expand and build on the story.
The Disco Ball will be produced through in part through ‘Co/Create’ initiatives, where artists, musicians, actors, producers, writers and other creatives are invited to key elements of the story alongside the core team. That work is integrated into the main narrative and rewarded with upfront compensation and a share of future profits through StoryCo’s ‘Profit Points’ system, which rewards meaningful contributions.
So far, the backstory of the antagonist was illustrated by Nigerian art student Okereafor Aanu, a supplementary character was developed by New York high school teacher Aaron Arm, a voice performance is provided by retired Disney Imagineer staffer Roy Berglund and a song that will feature in a later chapter comes from Arizona synth pop duo Fuzzle.
Killen is the writer. He’s known for creating Fox’s Lone Star, NBC’s Awake and ABC’s Mind Games during the 2010s. He also co-wrote Jodie Foster-directed