Christopher Yost (Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok) and Eric Heisserer (Bird Box, Arrival) have been set as showrunners for Peacock’s series Dungeon Crawler Carl, Deadline reports today.
Yost was announced in April to pen the new live-action series adaptation of Matt Dinniman‘s comedic, dystopian science fantasy LitRPG books. In June, Peacock gave a straight-to-series order.
In the upcoming series, 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 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.
Jeff Hays, a voice narrator and producer behind the LitRPG audiobook series version of Dinniman’s dystopian comedy novel, will star as the popular cat character Princess Donut.
Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins will executive produce via Fuzzy Door alongside Yost and Dinniman. Rachel Hargreaves-Heald will serve as executive in charge of production for Fuzzy Door.
Dungeon Crawler Carl book was originally self-published by Dinniman in 2020, making this new series a wild capper to the LitRPG’s seven-year journey.
Expect to hear more as further casting gets underway.
