Chris Yost & Eric Heisserer Set As Showrunners For Peacock Drama Series ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’

Dungeon Crawler Carl has found its showrunners.

The Peacock drama series, which is an adaptation of Matt Dinniman’s popular science fantasy LitRPG (role-playing game) books, was handed a straight-to-series order in June.

Chris Yost and Eric Heisserer have been named co-showrunners.

Yost was previously named as writer of the project, which comes from Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door and Universal Global Television.

He has worked on films including Thor and its sequels and was an executive consultant and writer on the first season of The Mandalorian as well as multiple Star Wars projects such as Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord.

Heisserer recently served as the showrunner, executive producer and creator of Shadow and Bone. Previously, he wrote Netflix film Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock, and Denis Villeneuve-directed sci-fi thriller Arrival. His original screenplay Mysteria is also set up at Amazon.

Dungeon Crawler Carl is set after 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.

Jeff Hays, a voice narrator and producer behind the LitRPG audiobook series version of Dinniman’s dystopian comedy novel, will star as popular cat character Princess Donut.

Yost and Heisserer will also executive produce alongside Fuzzy Door’s MacFarlane, Erica Huggins and Rachel Hargreaves-Heald.

The series pickup caps a seven-year journey for Dungeon Crawler Carl, which originated in 2019 with vignettes Dinniman self-published on a digital platform as a hobby while not busy with his main job as a sketch artist at cat shows.