Attention, crawlers: Seth MacFarlane’s live-action “Dungeon Crawler Carl” TV sequence has discovered its Queen Anne Chonk.
Jeff Hays, the narrator and producer behind all eight of the at the moment launched “Dungeon Crawler Carl” books, has been forged because the voice of Princess Donut on the Peacock TV adaptation of Matt Dinniman‘s best-selling LitRPG novels.
For those that have but to enter the crawl, Donut is a tiara-wearing speaking cat who belonged to the titular Carl’s ex-girlfriend, Beatrice. When an alien assault pushes Carl and the remaining survivors of humanity underground right into a televised competitors for his or her freedom, Carl groups up with Donut as his accomplice in the lethal recreation present.
Hays is well known to fans as the voice of Donut — and each different “DCC” character — in the audiobook variations. His addition to the “Dungeon Crawler Carl” TV sequence, which was introduced Thursday in the course of the Penguin Random House’s “Spotlight on Matt Dinniman” panel at San Diego Comic-Con, marks the primary casting information for the reason that show was ordered to series at Peacock last month. (However, actor Seth Green has already publicly thrown his hat in the dungeon to hitch, too.)
The sequence will likely be led by Chris Yost as author and showrunner. Yost will government produce alongside MacFarlane, Erica Huggins, Rachel Hargreaves-Heald for Fuzzy Door. Dinniman is co-executive producer. The adaptation hails from Universal Global Television.
Here’s the official logline for the “Dungeon Crawler Carl” TV sequence: “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.”
Dinniman’s “Dungeon Crawler Carl” sequence — which at the moment consists of eight books out of a complete of 10 deliberate novels — has bought greater than 14 million copies throughout all codecs. On Audible, the Hays-narrated sequence has drawn greater than 140 million listening hours.
Hays is repped by Matthew N. Sugarman at Weintraub Tobin.
