Peacock‘s Dungeon Crawler Carl series has cast its first actor —one who will be familiar to those who have listened to the audiobook versions of Matt Dinniman’s novels.
Jeff Hays, the narrator and producer of the DCC audiobooks, will voice the character of Princess Donut in the live-action series. Princess Donut is a key character in the books, a cat belonging to Carl’s ex-girlfriend who acquires the ability to speak when they become part of a survival game show run by the aliens who have destroyed most of humanity.
Hays joined Dinniman and Matt Yost, writer and executive producer of the Peacock series, on stage Thursday at Comic-Con to announce his casting.
Peacock placed a series order for Dungeon Crawler Carl in June. The show comes from Universal Global Television and Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door Productions, which hold the rights to Dinniman’s book series. Yost (Maul: Shadow Lord) is executive producing with MacFarlane, Erica Huggins and Rachel Hargreaves-Healdfor Fuzzy Door. Dinniman is a co-exec producer.
Here’s the full description of the series: “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.”
The Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks have logged more than 140 million listening hours on Audible to date. Hays narrates and does voices for the characters, including Princess Donut. He is repped by Matthew N. Sugarman at Weintraub Tobin.