Carmen Sandiego has conquered video games, books, comics, and television shows. But can she outrun Netflix?
Where in the world is Gina Rodriguez? One of Hollywood’s rising stars at the moment, the Jane The Virgin star has two voice projects coming up and is in the conversation to lead Sony’s Miss Bala remake. This good girl is ready to go bad, though. Her latest project will see her take on the world as the globetrotting theif Carmen Sandiego.
Rodriguez is set to voice the popular character for a new Netflix series. TrackingBoard had the exclusive scoop, noting “Insiders say that Netflix has ordered 20 episodes of the series, which aims to be as educational as it is entertaining, given the title character’s globetrotting adventures.”
Carmen Sandiego started as a video game in 1985 and ventured out into books, television, and comics. Children of the ‘90s have searched for Sandiego in the U.S.A., in Europe, in Space, and back in Time. The PBS animated series Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? ran for 295 episodes between 1991 and 1995. Author John Peel wrote 10 Carmen Sandiego books in the '90s. DC Comics published four issues of a Carmen Sandiego comic starting in June 1996.
Believe it or not, after more than two decades Sandiego, a notorious crook, is still on the loose. Can she outrun the Netflix binge watchers? We’ll have see if Rodriguez has what it takes!