A Wolfenstein Series Is In Development At Amazon

Amazon Prime Video is continuing its trend of video game adaptations. First, there was Fallout. Then, traction finally began on their Mass Effect show. Now, a third prominent gaming franchise is in line for a television series.

Video game adaptations have become big business on television over the past decade. HBO has had massive success with The Last of Us, you know, if you consider 40+ Emmy nominations and great audience ratings as successful. Netflix has gotten into the video game adaptation craze with animated series like Arcane, Castlevania, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. The Sonic the Hedgehog film series got a television spinoff on Paramount+ in the form of Knuckles. Venerable series like Twisted Metal and Halo have gotten expensive (and a bit lackluster) streaming shows. At the moment, a host of video game franchises are in various states of live-action television show development. Everything from Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider to My Friend Pedro and Life is Strange has been eyed for their own TV shows at some point over the past five to ten years. Well, it’s time to add another legendary gaming franchise to the list.

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Variety is reporting that Amazon MGM Studios is putting together a television adaptation based on the beloved Wolfenstein video game series. After the success they’ve had with Fallout, it seems Amazon is moving forward with their various gaming adaptations, including the previously announced God of War and Mass Effect shows they are actively developing. Patrick Somerville, the creative mind behind streaming hits Maniac and Station Eleven, is set to serve as creator, writer, executive producer, and showrunner on the show. Christopher Nolan’s brother Jonah—who also worked on Fallout and co-created Westworld—is also set to work on the project, as is MachineGames’ Jerk Gustafsson.

Amazon Has Put A Television Series Based On Wolfenstein Into Production

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What is there to say about the venerable Wolfenstein series? The first game in the series, Castle Wolfenstein, was released way back in 1981 for the Apple II, with Atari, MS-DOS, and Commodore 64 ports following suit over the next few years. A sequel, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, came out in 1984, but things were taken to a new level for the series in 1992 with Wolfenstein 3D. To this day, Wolfenstein 3D is lauded as one of the best and most influential video games ever made. It sold like hotcakes and was one of the progenitors of the first-person shooter craze that kicked off in the early 1990s, along with Doom.

“The story of killing Nazis is evergreen.” – Official Wolfenstein Television Series Logline

A bunch of middling Wolfenstein sequels were released throughout the 1990s and 2000s, but the series found its way back into the forefront of gamers’ minds with 2014’s Wolfenstein: The New Order by MachineGames. Although their latest game was the well-received Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, MachineGames is basically synonymous with Wolfenstein at this point, having released five games in the series from 2014 to 2019. If Somerville and company can capture the essence of MachineGames’ recent entries in the series, the sky is the limit for Amazon Prime Video‘s Wolfenstein series.

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Source: Variety