Naver Webtoon's popular webtoons "Wolf and Red Riding Hood" and "Vampire Family" will be made into animated series.
Webtoon Entertainment, Naver Webtoon's headquarters, on the 13th (local time) in Vancouver, Canada, unveiled four additional new animated series being co-developed with Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) at "Web Summit Vancouver 2026." The announcement extends the strategic partnership the two sides signed in Nov. last year and is part of the work to adapt Naver Webtoon's Korean- and English-language original webtoon intellectual property (IP) for the screen.
The newly added titles are four in total: "Wolf and Red Riding Hood," "Vampire Family," "Sable's Curse (Sable Curse)," and "Snow and Briar (Snow and Briar)." Along with previously announced titles "Star-Embracing Swordmaster," "Level Up Warrior," "Down to Earth," and "Elf & Warrior," they have been included in WBA's production pipeline.
Among the newly added titles, "Wolf and Red Riding Hood" won the 2017 edition of "Naver Webtoon Supernova," a rookie discovery program run by Naver Webtoon and the Korea Manhwa Contents Agency. Since its official serialization in 2018, it has been serviced in six languages, including English, Spanish, and Japanese. A Naver Webtoon official said, "It is meaningful that a work by a rookie artist discovered through a domestic contest is being reborn as a global animated series."
Sam Register, president of Warner Bros. Animation, said, "We are looking for new characters that could be the 'next Bugs Bunny' or the 'next Batman,' and we were greatly attracted to webtoons' capability as an engine that creates stories and characters." Warner Bros. Animation is the studio within the Warner Bros. Discovery group that produces and distributes animation.
As part of its "mega IP" development strategy, Webtoon Entertainment is accelerating adaptations of popular webtoons for the screen. It has recently signed back-to-back partnerships with Disney and Prime Video and is also expanding collaborations with specialized production companies, including announcing a live-action film adaptation of Webtoon Entertainment's popular English original webtoon "ShootAround" with Lion Forge Entertainment.