{"id":1015932,"date":"2026-08-21T23:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1015932\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T23:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:54:15","slug":"the-dungeon-crawler-carl-tv-show-just-got-a-new-overlord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1015932\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Show Just Got a New Overlord"},"content":{"rendered":"

When one of your favorite books finally gets an official adaptation, it\u2019s easy to get worried. Will this actually happen? Can it be good? Well, in the case of Matt Dinniman\u2019s geeky Dungeon Crawler Carl series,<\/a> those questions just got a very positive response. Eric Heisserer<\/a>, the Oscar-nominated writer of Arrival and showrunner of Netflix\u2019s Shadow and Bone<\/a>, has joined the Peacock project as a showrunner.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll split the duties with previously announced Chris Yost, who has worked in both the Marvel and Star Wars universes. Seth MacFarlane, creator of Ted, Family Guy, and more, is also among the executive producers. The show got a direct-to-series order from Peacock earlier this summer. It\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

The series follows a seemingly unassuming man who survives the end of the world, only to be forced into a deadly, televised, galactic game show along with his girlfriend\u2019s cat, Princess Donut. It\u2019s part of a very specific subgenre called LitRPG because it takes the ideas of an open-world role-playing game (leveling up, loot boxes, different classes, etc.) and turns it into a singular story. Basically, though, it\u2019s like if Independence Day turned into\u00a0The Running Man, but within a massive game of Dungeons & Dragons.<\/p>\n

After seeing the series everywhere at Comic-Con this year, I decided to pick up the first book and was instantly sucked in. A month later, I\u2019m about to finish book three and have the fourth one ready to go. Dinniman has written eight books in the series, with two more planned. It\u2019s a truly bonkers, fun series, especially if you love violence, surprises, and leveling up. And while it would make a killer movie, an ongoing series feels like the right way to go. Because there is a whole lot of story to tell.<\/p>\n

Are you a fan of this series? Do you think the team of Heisserer and Yost can bring it all together? Let us know below.<\/p>\n

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Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When one of your favorite books finally gets an official adaptation, it\u2019s easy to get worried. Will this…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1015933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[356665,356666,171,406455,12819,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1015932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-chris-yost","tag-dungeon-crawler-carl","tag-entertainment","tag-eric-heisserer","tag-peacock","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}