To the surprise of few, the Dungeon Crawler Carl live-action series has been given the greenlight at Peacock, with Seth MacFarlane and Craig Yost at the helm.
Creator Matt Dinnaman announced the deal on Instagram:
And Dinnaman also stealth dropped the news that DCC will have a panel at SDCC!
Surprise! I’m happy to announce that our friends at Peacock have *officially* greenlit the Dungeon Crawler Carl television series! Me, Chris Yost and Seth MacFarlane and his team at Fuzzy Door are all really excited to get to work. In the coming weeks I’ll have more details, and if you’re going to SDCC be sure to catch me and Chris on our DCC panel. In the meantime I wanted to thank you, the fans, for helping make this happen.
Dungeon Crawler Carl has been rapidly ascending through the halls of pop culture, with best selling novels, audiobooks, games and even comics. What started as a hobby for Dinnaman has now put the LitRPG genre on the map. The eighth book in the series, A Parade of Horribles, was just released and has sold more than 100,000 copies according to sales charts but has sold an additional 500,000 audio books, and more than 100,000 ebooks. The entire series has more than six ten million copies in print.
Given this trajectory, Peacock gave a direct-to-series order for the show, which will be produced by Universal Global Television and Seth MacFarlane‘s Fuzzy Door company. Chris Yost (Thor: Ragnarok) will write and exec produce the series.
Given MacFarlane’s already strong track record for nerdy parody (The Orville) this seems like the perfect set-up. The logline, as if you didn’t already know:
An alien invasion has wiped out most of humanity and any survivors are forced to fight for their lives on a sadistic intergalactic game show. Sounds bad, right? Now try doing it with bare feet and a stuck-up, self-centered, tiara-wearing talking cat as your partner. Welcome to Dungeon Crawler World: Earth, where the apocalypse will be televised … and Coast Guard vet Carl finds himself stuck with his ex-girlfriend’s award-winning show cat, Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk, as they try to survive the end of the world, fighting monsters, aliens, an insane A.I. and even other survivors — all for the sake of good TV. Survival is optional. Entertainment is not.
And now, let the casting game begin! Princess Donut: puppet or CGI?
