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 joined Peacock's upcoming live-action "Dungeon Crawler Carl" adaptation as co-showrunner alongside previously announced writer Chris Yost. The project brings together two experienced genre television figures to adapt Matt Dinniman's bestselling LitRPG novel series, which has built a substantial fanbase and follows Coast Guard veteran Carl and a talking show cat surviving an alien-run intergalactic reality game show after an invasion devastates humanity.
Yost and Heisserer will executive produce with Seth MacFarlane, Erica Huggins and Rachel Hargreaves-Heald for MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door banner, while Dinniman serves as co-executive producer and Universal Global Television handles the adaptation. Jeff Hays, narrator of all eight released "Dungeon Crawler Carl" audiobooks (out of ten planned novels), is so far the only announced cast member, lending his voice to the character Princess Donut. The book series has sold more than 14 million copies across formats and racked up over 140 million listening hours on Audible, underlining the built-in audience the TV adaptation aims to capture. No premiere date or broader cast has yet been announced.
- Eric Heisserer named co-showrunner of Peacock's "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series
- Joins writer Chris Yost; MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door produces
- Only Jeff Hays (voicing Princess Donut) cast so far
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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”.