Image via Rooster Teeth © 2004 – 2024 Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC. All rights reservedEntertainment news website Deadline reported on Thursday that Viz Media and the Gotham Group have signed an agreement for the Gotham Group to develop film and television adaptations based on Viz Media 's original properties, including titles from its Viz Originals graphic novels and the RWBY franchise that it had acquired. In July 2024, Viz Media acquired the RWBY series following Rooster Teeth shutting down. Viz Media published the manga in its English edition of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine beginning in October 2017, and also published the manga in print. Additionally, Viz Media published the RWBY manga anthology series.