‘She-Ra’ Live-Action Amazon Series Taps ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ Creator Heidi Schreck to Write (EXCLUSIVE)

The live-action “She-Ra” series in development at Amazon MGM Studios has found its writer.

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Variety has learned exclusively that Heidi Schreck has joined the project as writer and executive producer. It was previously reported that Nicole Kassell is attached to direct and executive produce. Robin Sweet will also executive produce, along with DreamWorks Animation.

DreamWorks recently produced the Netflix animated series “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.” However, the live-action version will be a new, standalone story and will not be connected to the animated show. Amazon MGM Studios will produce.

Variety reported that “She-Ra” was in early development at the streamer in September 2021. The logline for the show describes it as “an epic fantasy series about an orphaned young woman who leads a revolution to save her planet from annihilation.”

Schreck has previously worked on shows like “Billions” and “Nurse Jackie” at Showtime, “Dispatches from Elsewhere” at AMC, and the Amazon series “I Love Dick” starring Kathryn Hahn and Kevin Bacon. Schreck is best known for writing and starring in the critically-acclaimed play “What the Constitution Means to Me.” The play had an extended sold-out run on Broadway in 2019, earning two Tony nominations and becoming a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It was recently announced that it was the most produced play of the 2023-2024 season by the New York Times. A filmed version debuted on Amazon Prime Video in 2020.

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Schreck has also won three Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a Theatre World Award, the Horton Foote Playwriting Award, and the Hull-Warriner Award from the Dramatists Guild.

She is repped by UTA, Curate, and Schreck Rose.

Should the new project go to series, it would mark the first live-action adaptation of the She-Ra character. She first debuted onscreen in the animated film ” He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword” in 1985 as part of the “Masters of the Universe” franchise before spinning off into her own cartoon series, “She-Ra: Princess of Power.” The show ran for two seasons and nearly 100 episodes between 1985 and 1986. The Netflix animated series ran for five seasons and 52 episodes, with the fifth and final season dropping on Netflix back in May 2020.

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