D&D General There’s a Baldur’s Gate TV Show Coming!

According to Deadline, there’s a TV show based on Baldur’s Gate 3 coming from US TV studio HBO and the co-creator of The Last of Us—another TV show based on a popular video game.

Craig Mazin will “create, write, executive produce and showrun” the TV adaptation.

Chris Perkins—who used to work at WotC—will be acting as a consultant for the show.

The show will be a sequel to the video game, rather than a retelling of it (as was done with The Last of Us).

Marin said “After putting nearly 1000 hours into the incredible world of Baldur’s Gate 3, it is a dream come true to be able to continue the story that Larian and Wizards of The Coast created. I am a devoted fan of D&D and the brilliant way that Swen Vincke and his gifted team adapted it. I can’t wait to help bring Baldur’s Gate and all of its incredible characters to life with as much respect and love as we can, and I’m deeply grateful to Gabe Marano and his team at Hasbro for entrusting me with this incredibly important property.”

The show will feature both characters from Baldur’s Gate 3 and new characters.

Separately, Netflix is still producing Shawn Levy’s Forgotten Realms based TV show.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Give it’s HBO, it’s probably required to keep the tone. HBO’s prime audience loves its sex and violence

 

[OB1]

I think this happening in parallel with the Forgotten Realms show is reason to believe it won't. It's not a singular TV that has to represent the whole line. With more shows, they can have more flavors and that, in fact, works to WotC's benefit, for those who don't want just DADHAT glibness.

I hope that the Netflix show still goes and that it does do the DaDHat thing. Love the movie and would love to see that tone in a show as well.

 

[Zaukrie]

Exciting! I hope both get made. With different tones.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

Craig Mazin, the eminent creator of "Scary Movie 3" and "The Last of Us?"

I think I have a quote that sums up his career; "Not great, not terrible."

 

[Aurel Guthrie]

I'm wary of this given that Larian isn't involved in the story, but I'll still give it a shot when it comes out.

 

[OB1]

Ooops, duplicate post.

 

[OB1]

Craig Mazin, the eminent creator of "Scary Movie 3" and "The Last of Us?"

I think I have a quote that sums up his career; "Not great, not terrible."

I consider TLoU to be fantastic. But I’m not a person who gets all stuck on annon when a game or book is adapted to a different medium.

And as for Larian, my understanding is that the story we got had a lot of help from the early access players pushing them in a different direction from where they were originally going.

 

[bedir than]

Craig Mazin, the eminent creator of "Scary Movie 3" and "The Last of Us?"

I think I have a quote that sums up his career; "Not great, not terrible."

Chernobyl showing he can be great
He also worked on script for Dune and Dune 2

His top rated (IMDb) projects are both the ones where he had the most control -- Last of Us with an 8.5 and Chernobyl with a 9.3.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

I consider TLoU to be fantastic. But I’m not a person who gets all stuck on annon when a game or book is adapted to a different medium.

And as for Larian, my understanding is that the story we got had a lot of help from the early access players pushing them in a different direction from where they were originally going.

I actually don't have a problem with TLoU and think it's a good show and well regarded as a good video game adaptation; but I want to emphasize that while he's had some recent successes the dude has a laundry list of clunkers to his name too.

 

[Scribe]

And as for Larian, my understanding is that the story we got had a lot of help from the early access players pushing them in a different direction from where they were originally going.

This is true, there was a big shift in how the game was presented and interacted with the player.