Skip to content
Answering Your Questions About Reactor: Right here.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter. Everything in one handy email.
When one looks in the box, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the cat.

Series Adaptation of Among Us Snags Elijah Wood and Other Nerd-Known Names

Reactor

Home / Series Adaptation of Among Us Snags Elijah Wood and Other Nerd-Known Names
News Among Us

Series Adaptation of Among Us Snags Elijah Wood and Other Nerd-Known Names

By

Published on March 15, 2024

Among Us character from game

Among Us, the popular mobile video game (and the bane of Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion), has had an animated series adaptation in the works at CBS Studios. That project appears to have been steadily moving forward, as Variety reported today that four well-known actors have signed up to lend their vocal talents to the production.

According to the trade, Elijah Wood (Yellowjackets, Lord of the Rings), Yvette Nicole Brown (Community, Inside Out 2), Randall Park (WandaVision, Blue Eye Samurai), and Ashley Johnson (The Last of Us, Critical Role) will star in the series, and shared their character descriptions as well.

Before we get to those, here’s the logline of the show, which might be helpful to those who haven’t played the game (though if you’ve played Mafia or Werewolf before, you already know the premise):

Members of your crew have been replaced by an alien shapeshifter intent on causing confusion, sabotaging the ship, and killing everyone. Root out the “Impostor” or fall victim to its murderous designs.

Here are the descriptions of the actors’ characters, per Variety:

Randall Park will voice ‘Red’ – Captain of The Skeld
People-pleaser, blowhard
Task: leadership, confidence
Fun Fact: failed upwards

Ashley Johnson will voice ‘Purple’ – Chief of Security
Safety, suspicion, sarcasm
Task: wet blanket
Fun Fact: trust issues

Yvette Nicole Brown will voice ‘Orange’ – HR
Spineless corporate shill
Task: eliminate redundancy, redundantly
Fun Fact: fires you over email

Elijah Wood will voice ‘Green’ – Unpaid Intern
Happy to be there
Task: whatever they’re told
Fun Fact: gets paid in pizza

There’s no news yet on when the series will make its way to a television screen near you (and we also currently don’t know what network/streamer the show will host the crew). icon-paragraph-end

About the Author

About Author Mobile

Vanessa Armstrong

Author

Vanessa Armstrong is a writer with bylines at The LA Times, SYFY WIRE, StarTrek.com and other publications. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog Penny and her husband Jon, and she loves books more than most things. You can find more of her work on her website or follow her on Twitter @vfarmstrong.
Learn More About