D&D Movie/TV 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. Other executive producers include Hasbro's Gabriel Marano, plus Jacqueline Lesko and Cecil O'Connor.

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

Larian Studios, which made the bestselling video game, is not involved with the TV show. When Larian CEO Swen Vincke was asked if any of Larian’s writers were contributing, he answered “Not to my knowledge. But Craig did reach out to ask if he could come over to the studio to speak with us. From the conversation we had, I think he truely is a big fan which gives me hope.”

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

Mazin 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.

 

[TwoSix]

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.

Fair. But to a more positive spin on it, Scary Movie 3 was 20 years ago; TLoU and Chernobyl were much more recent. Sometimes people do just get better at their job!

 

[Artamo]

Comedy, especially parody, is a very difficult thing to get right. Mazin’s done good stuff - really good stuff.

As a fan, I’m just going to take this news as a 100% win for me.

 

[Parmandur]

Given that my PS5 struggles with it, I don’t think something between PS4 or PS5 has any chance of running it.

I've seen analysis that day otherwise, based on PC comparisons.

The Switch 2 runs Cyberpunk 2077 beautifully.

 

[Parmandur]

Fair. But to a more positive spin on it, Scary Movie 3 was 20 years ago; TLoU and Chernobyl were much more recent. Sometimes people do just get better at their job!

Or get into positions where they can better show off their abilities.

I do not know much about he Scary Movie scripts in question, but for a lot of creative, at some point in their life they need a paycheck and may not have much control over the product.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

I just find it kind of weird how everyone's so gung-ho about Mazin despite having a spotty record but in the threads about new WotC hires people are really picking apart their entire creative output, the good and the bad. It's weird to me we're extending more benefit of the doubt to a creator in one medium but not another.

 

[bedir than]

I just find it kind of weird how everyone's so gung-ho about Mazin despite having a spotty record but in the threads about new WotC hires people are really picking apart their entire creative output, the good and the bad. It's weird to me we're extending more benefit of the doubt to a creator in one medium but not another.

which project on which he was a showrunner is poorly or mediocrely rated?

 

[plecostomus]

I can only assume they will use the exact outcomes I had on my first Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough, such as when I turned Astarion into a vampire lord then immediately broke up with him.

 

[Piperken]

Could bode well; I think the decision to give whomever ends up helping with episode writing room to write by placing this after the events in the video game, is prudent.

I do hope if it is successful, this allows creative opportunities for some of the actors (including Amelia Tyler) who spent such a period of time with these characters, to visit them again.

 

[charlesatan]

I just find it kind of weird how everyone's so gung-ho about Mazin despite having a spotty record but in the threads about new WotC hires people are really picking apart their entire creative output, the good and the bad. It's weird to me we're extending more benefit of the doubt to a creator in one medium but not another.

It's because the Enworld community thinks they know better when it comes to games (because this is a gaming community), hence are more critical of game designers (because they think they know better or have strong opinions about the subject).

Browsing through the various forums, the community isn't as knowledgeable about other subject matters, so when it comes to those topics, it's a coin flip on whether they will extend grace (because they don't know enough to be critical about it or have strong informed opinions) or will voice concerns (because they are either more knowledgeable or ignorant about the subject).

 

[Parmandur]

I just find it kind of weird how everyone's so gung-ho about Mazin despite having a spotty record but in the threads about new WotC hires people are really picking apart their entire creative output, the good and the bad. It's weird to me we're extending more benefit of the doubt to a creator in one medium but not another.

Not the same peop, most likely.