Eric Heisserer joins Dungeon Crawler Carl as co-showrunner
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Eric Heisserer, creator and showrunner of Netflix's "Shadow and Bone", has been named co-showrunner of Peacock's upcoming live-action "Dungeon Crawler Carl" TV series, joining previously announced writer Chris Yost. The adaptation, based on Matt Dinniman's bestselling LitRPG novels, is a significant television project given the book series' large existing fanbase, and pairing two experienced genre showrunners suggests a serious push to bring the franchise to screen.
The series will be executive produced by Yost and Heisserer alongside Seth MacFarlane, Erica Huggins and Rachel Hargreaves-Heald for MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door banner, with author Dinniman serving as co-executive producer and Universal Global Television handling the adaptation. So far Jeff Hays, narrator of the audiobook editions, is the only announced cast member, voicing the talking cat character Princess Donut. Dinniman's novel series, currently eight books into a planned ten, has sold more than 14 million copies and racked up over 140 million listening hours on Audible.
- Eric Heisserer joins as co-showrunner of Peacock's "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series
- He'll work alongside writer Chris Yost under Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door
- Only cast member so far: audiobook narrator Jeff Hays voicing Princess Donut
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Eric Heisserer is a television writer and producer best known for creating and running Netflix's fantasy series "Shadow and Bone." He has now been brought on to co-run a live-action adaptation of "Dungeon Crawler Carl" for the streaming service Peacock, working alongside Chris Yost, another established writer in the genre space who was previously attached to the project.
"Dungeon Crawler Carl" originates as a series of novels by author Matt Dinniman, part of a genre known as LitRPG, which blends fantasy adventure with video-game-style rules and progression systems. The books follow a man and his ex-girlfriend's cat navigating a deadly alien game show built like a dungeon, and the series has become a major commercial success, selling more than 14 million copies and proving especially popular in audiobook form.
The television adaptation is being developed with backing from Seth MacFarlane's production company Fuzzy Door, with Universal handling the production side and Dinniman himself involved as a producer. Bringing in two experienced showrunners is seen as a sign that the project is being treated as a significant undertaking, given the size and enthusiasm of the books' existing fanbase.
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Originally published by Variety as “‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series Sets Netflix’s ‘Shadow and Bone’ Creator Eric Heisserer as Co-Showrunner”.