Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 is officially getting the TV treatment by Chernobyl and The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin.
While the series is being made without the assistance of Larian, much to the chagrin of fans and even some developers, HBO has nabbed Dungeons and Dragons game architect and story lead Chris Perkins as a consultant for the TV series.
As reported by Deadline, who also first reported the adaptation’s existence, Perkins will help make sure that the upcoming TV series will stay true to the Dungeons and Dragons source material. Perkins worked on the franchise for three decades, overseeing the brand as a whole, before leaving Wizards of the Coast in 2025.
Baldur’s Gate 3 will not be directly adapting the storyline of Larian’s game into a live-action form, but will instead be acting as a sequel story. In lieu of any official game expansion from Larian Studios, the TV show appears be Wizards of the Coast’s canon follow-up to the events of the beloved RPG.
Larian Studios has revealed in the past that it did start work on DLC for Baldur’s Gate 3 that would’ve continued the story of the game, but the studio cancelled the project and parted ways with Wizards of the Coast to focus on its own series, Divinity.
“You could see the team was doing it because everyone felt like we had to do it, but it wasn’t really coming from the heart,” CEO Swen Vincke told IGN, “and we’re very much a studio from the heart. It’s what gotten us into misery and it’s also been the reasons for our success.” Vincke said that they started doing DLC because it “was expected”, but their heart wasn’t in it.
Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast are adamant that Baldur’s Gate 4 is “of course” going to happen at some point in the future, but it’s not known if any studio is actively working on a sequel right now. Furthermore, without Larian’s involvement, it seems unlikely—at this point—that any of the studio’s original plans for Baldur’s Gate 3’s follow-up story will make their way into either the HBO series or Baldur’s Gate 4.
There is currently no proposed release date for the Baldur’s Gate 3 TV adaptation.
