Peacock has issued a straight-to-series order for a live-action adaptation of Dungeon Crawler Carl, the science-fantasy LitRPG book series created by Matt Dinniman. The project moves forward into active production following a period of development at the streaming platform.
The television adaptation is being produced by Universal Global Television in partnership with Seth MacFarlane’s production banner, Fuzzy Door. Screenwriter Chris Yost (Thor: Ragnarok, “The Mandalorian”) is attached to pen the script for the series.
Author Matt Dinniman, who will also serve as a co-executive producer on the live-action project, confirmed the series pickup via his official social media channels.
“Me, Chris Yost and Seth MacFarlane and his team at Fuzzy Door are all really excited to get to work,” Dinniman said. “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.”
The saga revolves around an apocalyptic alien invasion that decimates the majority of the human population. The remaining survivors are forced into a sadistic, televised intergalactic game show known as Dungeon Crawler World: Earth. The story tracks Coast Guard veteran Carl and his unusual companion—a high-society talking show cat named Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk—as they navigate gladiatorial battles against extraterrestrial threats, monsters, an unstable artificial intelligence, and fellow competitors in a bid for survival.
This announcement marks a major milestone for the underlying intellectual property, which Dinniman initially launched in 2019 as serialized vignettes on a self-publishing platform while working as a cat show sketch artist.
Fuzzy Door’s Erica Huggins and Rachel Hargreaves-Heald will executive produce the series alongside MacFarlane and Yost.
The pickup marks a busy period of development for Peacock, following closely on the heels of another recent straight-to-series order for the thriller limited series “The Break-In.”
