Netflix, no stranger to adapting video games into streaming hits, has announced that it is partnering with sport writer Asmodee to create new TV reveals and movies primarily based on the board sport Catan, with a number of tasks already in improvement. Whereas the streamer has primarily specialised online game variations, the idea in post-Barbie Hollywood is that any recognizable IP might be the supply of a future TV present or film.
In Catan, gamers are tasked with amassing sources and constructing out a civilization on a distant island, with a number of methods to win or impede fellow gamers from doing the identical. It isn’t too laborious to think about the sport being transformed into some form of aggressive actuality TV present, although apparently animated and live-action narrative tasks are additionally on the desk. “Anybody who has performed Catan is aware of [that] the extraordinary technique and negotiation on the core of the sport has limitless alternatives for some critical drama,” Jinny Howe, Netflix’s head of scripted collection for the US and Canada, shared within the press launch saying the deal.
Whichever Catan venture in the end heads into manufacturing, Netflix says it’s going to be produced by Darren Kyman from Asmodee, Pete Fenlon from Catan Studio, and Guido and Benjamin Teuber, the sons of Catan creator Klaus Teuber. If Asmodee sounds acquainted, it may be as a result of Netflix has partnered with the writer up to now. Exploding Kittens, one other Asmodee printed sport, was adapted into each a cell sport for Netflix Video games and an animated collection with the assistance of its authentic creators.
Catan joins a Monopoly adaptation and several other reveals primarily based on video video games at Netflix, together with the lately launched Splinter Cell: Deathwatch and an upcoming series primarily based on the Murderer’s Creed franchise.
