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Good news, Crawlers! Though it has been a hot minute since the Dungeon Crawler Carl TV series was announced, we’ve finally gotten confirmation that it is still, in fact, going ahead. Author Matt Dinniman confirmed on Friday that he’s still hopeful that the live-action Dungeon Crawler Carl series would see the light of day.

Back in August 2024, it was announced that Dungeon Crawler Carl was being adapted as a live-action TV series by NBCUniversal and Seth McFarlane’s Fuzzy Door Productions. Since then, it has been pretty quiet on the update front for the project. Which, honestly, isn’t unusual for a project like this. In a recent interview, Matt Dinniman gave an update on where they were in the production process.

“Right now, we’re at the point where Chris Yost, who’s writing the show, has written a few episodes,” Dinniman explained. “And I don’t think it’s public yet, the streaming service that has picked it up, but we’re getting pretty close to the point where a decision needs to be made, like contracts need to be made, whether or not they’re going to go ahead with. And that whole process involves scripts, involves CGI testing, and budgetary stuff, and lots of stuff that’s above my pay grade. So the project, as of this moment, is still very much alive. We’re still very much moving forward. Things are happening literally daily.”

That doesn’t mean that fans shouldn’t brace themselves for potential disappointment. “But I’ve also had friends who’ve gone through this process and everything hits a brick wall. And I’ve seen it happen so many times, I’m just kind of in a, ‘Well, I’ll believe it when I see it’ state. But this is where we’re headed right now, and I’m cautiously optimistic we’ll get there.”

Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 8, A Parade of Horribles, is out on May 12, 2026, which will hopefully keep the studio eager to keep making the long-awaited TV show.

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