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Lock and load, it’s time to watch some Nazis get gunned down on the small screen, as a TV series adaptation of the iconic World War II shooter video game Wolfenstein is in development at Amazon MGM Studios.
As reported by Variety, the show will be helmed by Patrick Somerville (Station Eleven, Maniac) under his chaoticgood.tv production banner. Kilter Films, the company which produced 2024’s Fallout live-action game-to-screen adaptation, is also attached to the project, alongside Jerk Gustafsson of MachineGames, developer of all the modern Wolfenstein games since 2014’s Wolfenstein: The New Order.
While plot details of the upcoming adaptation remain under wraps, the show looks to follow the same general plotline of its source material, with its official logline aptly reading, “The story of killing Nazis is evergreen.” Somerville also stated that he has been a fan of the games since he was a child, which spells good tidings for the show, and will hopefully mean that it will be a faithful adaptation of the iconic shooter franchise.
Tracing its roots to 1981 with Castle Wolfenstein, the video game franchise is well-known in the industry for popularising the first-person shooter (FPS) genre with 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D, the first game in the series to adopt the FPS format. The series has spawned 14 games to date, undergoing a franchise reboot in 2014 that brought the franchise to the modern gaming audience.
The games largely centred around William “B.J.” Blazkowicz, a US World War II soldier sent behind enemy lines to fight the Nazis, with most games also featuring themes of the occult and supernatural elements. The 2014 reboot saw a franchise reimagining, with the modern games set in an alternate history where the Nazis won the war, so it is unclear which plotline the TV series would adapt, or if it will instead introduce its own original narrative and characters. Either way, let’s hope Amazon will at least bring B.J. to life, as Nazi-killing just won’t feel quite the same without him.
Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise “duds” like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3. He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying.
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