Peacock has given a straight-to-series order to a present primarily based on Matt Dinnaman’s well-liked Dungeon Crawler Carl books.
The live-action collection comes from Universal Global Television and Seth MacFarlane‘s Fuzzy Door company. UGT’s predecessor, Common Worldwide Studios, and Fuzzy Door acquired rights to Dinnaman’s books in 2024. Chris Yost (Maul: Shadow Lord, Thor: Ragnarok) is ready to jot down and government produce the collection.
“I’m happy to announce that our friends at Peacock have *officially* greenlit the Dungeon Crawler Carl television series!,” Dinnaman wrote on Instagram. “Me, Chris Yost and Seth MacFarlane and his team at Fuzzy Door are all really excited to get to work.” Dinnaman additionally famous that he and Yost are scheduled to guide a Dungeon Crawler Carl panel at Comedian-Con in July.
Right here’s the logline for the collection: “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.”
Yost will government produce the collection with MacFarlane, Erica Huggins and Rachel Hargreaves-Heald for Fuzzy Door. Dinnaman is a co-executive producer.
