J.J. Abrams & James Wan Teaming With Netflix For New 8-Episode Supernatural Drama

Published Aug 14, 2026, 12:34 PM EDT Adam Bentz is a senior news writer at ScreenRant, where he has authored nearly 5,000 articles, including features and lists. He studied creative writing and English with a concentration in screenwriting at Southern New Hampshire University and interned as a writer/journalist for The Borgen Project, an influential organization that fights global poverty. However, one of his proudest achievements is editing a Leonardo DiCaprio freakout compilation that has over 150K views on YouTube. Adam also fancies himself an amateur film critic on his personal website. Sign in to your ScreenRant account This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available.J.J. Abrams and James Wan are joining forces with Netflix for a new genre-bending project, Sid & Zoey. Two of the highest-grossing directors of all time: Abrams for both Star Trek and Star Wars movies, while Wan primarily worked in horror with Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring. Outside of horror, Wan has also directed Furious 7 (2015) and Aquaman (2018). Both are also behind TV shows, with Abrams co-creating Felicity (1998–2002), Alias (2001–2006), Lost (2004–2010), and Fringe (2008–2013), and Wan producing the MacGyver reboot (2016–2021), Prime Video's I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021), and more. Now, the two are teaming up for a new TV series. Netflix has announced that J.J. Abrams and James Wan will executive produce Sid & Zoey, a genre-bending project that combines supernatural mystery, romance, and horror. Plot details are as follows: The series will follow Sid, a seductive, sophisticated, and amoral teenager from New York, as he’s sent to live with a police chief and his family in the idyllic Mississippi town where his mother grew up. Among them is the chief’s sharp-witted, punk-rock daughter, Zoey. Resisting their mutual attraction, Sid and Zoey find themselves drawn into a dark, hidden world beneath the town’s picture-postcard facade — and a paranormal puzzle that may well get them killed. More to come...