Netflix has announced that Carmen Sandiego, a reboot of the classic animated series featuring the voice of Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), will premiere January 18. Deadline reported that the project, produced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, "features not only a new crop of international capers packed but will look into Carmen's past to tell who she is and why she became a super thief. Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) voices Player, Carmen's chief accomplice and friend."
The character debuted in a 1980s computer game franchise Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? and was later a game show that aired on PBS from 1991-95. The animated series ran from 1994 to 1999 on Fox Kids.
HMH Books for Young Readers will publish Who in the World is Carmen Sandiego, with a foreword by Gina Rodriguez, January 22. The novelization based on the Netflix series will also be available simultaneously in Spanish. Additional Carmen titles will follow in 2019 and beyond. HMH is the owner of the Carmen Sandiego property and Caroline Fraser, head of HMH Productions, is an executive producer on the Netflix series.