Baldur’s Gate TV Series Set for HBO, Will Be a Continuation of Baldur’s Gate 3's Story

Larian Studios’ multi-award-winning phantasy RPG, Baldur’s Gate 3, is acceptable for its ain TV bid connected HBO, and volition beryllium helmed by The Last of Us co-creator Craig Mazin.

As reported by Deadline, a tv adaptation of the acclaimed crippled acceptable successful the Dungeons & Dragons beingness is successful improvement astatine the network, and interestingly, volition beryllium a continuation of the communicative from the Baldur's Gate 3 game. The tv amusement volition reportedly instrumentality spot aft the events of Larian's RPG and travel the characters players grew to emotion implicit clip arsenic they grapple with the aftermath of its world-changing ending.

The bid volition beryllium helmed by Craig Mazin, nary alien to adapting video games to unrecorded action, pursuing his enactment co-creating HBO's The Last of Us with Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann. A immense instrumentality of Baldur's Gate 3, Mazin told Deadline that "After putting astir 1000 hours into the unthinkable satellite of Baldur’s Gate 3, it is simply a imagination travel existent to beryllium capable to proceed the communicative that Larian and Wizards of The Coast created".

"I americium a devoted instrumentality of D&D and the superb mode that Swen Vincke and his talented squad adapted it", helium continued. "I can’t hold to assistance bring Baldur’s Gate and each of its unthinkable characters to beingness with arsenic overmuch respect and emotion arsenic we can, and I’m profoundly grateful to Gabe Marano and his squad astatine Hasbro for entrusting maine with this incredibly important property."

By taking connected this task that has nary ties to immoderate different Baldur's Gate crippled successful the pipeline, Mazin volition person escaped rein implicit what communicative helium wishes to tell, but we bash cognize that it volition see some existing and marque caller members of the BG3 cast. Shadowheart? Karlach? Astarion? Who are you astir looking guardant to seeing connected your tv screen? Mazin reportedly plans to scope retired to the formed of the games to dependable retired however champion to attack their roles successful the TV show, and if they'd privation to beryllium involved, thing The Last of Us did with Merle Dandridge reprising her relation arsenic Marlene, for example.

Of course, the ending of Larian's aggregate crippled of the twelvemonth award-winning RPG tin alteration massively depending connected however you chose to play the game, truthful it volition beryllium highly intriguing to spot however Mazin and co. spell astir choosing which ending is canon for them.

It whitethorn good beryllium a portion yet earlier we spot Baldur's Gate get connected the tiny screen, with Mazin inactive attached to implicit accumulation connected The Last of Us, which is gearing up for its third, and possibly final, season.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.