Peacock’s “Dungeon Crawler Carl” TV adaptation has recruited “Arrival” writer Eric Heisserer as a co-showrunner alongside Chris Yost.
Heisserer has been tapped to co-showrun and executive produce the live-action adaptation of Matt Dinniman’s LitRPG (literary role-playing game) series alongside Yost, who was previously attached.
The news comes just under two months after Peacock granted “Dungeon Crawler Carl” a straight-to-series order in mid-June. Hailing from Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door and Universal Global Television, the series is executive produced by MacFarlane as well as Fuzzy Door’s Erica Huggins and Rachel Hargreaves-Heald.
Dinniman serves as a co-executive producer on the TV adaptation, which also has Jeff Hays on board to star as Princess Donut.
The official synopsis for the series is as follows: “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 the apocalypse will be televised…and 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. Survival is optional. Entertainment is not.”
Heisserer is best known for penning Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival,” which earned him an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay, and was also behind the “Bird Box,” “Lights Out,” “Hours,” “Bloodshot,” “Final Destination 5: The Thing” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (2010).
On the TV side, Heisserer created and showran Netflix’s “Shadow and Bone.”
Yost, whose career extends from comic books to TV, film and animation, has had a hand within several titles within the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the “Star Wars” galaxy, including “Iron Man 2,” “The Avengers” and “Captain America: The First Avenger,” as well as “The Mandalorian.”
Heisserer is represented by CAA, Art/Work Entertainment and Jackoway Tyerman. Yost is represented by Verve and Industry Entertainment.
