Netflix Goes All-in on Catan, With Live-Action and Animated Films and TV Series Planned

Netflix is making assorted films and TV bid based connected Catan, the world-renowned multiplayer committee game.

In Catan, players instrumentality connected the roles of settlers who effort to physique and make holdings portion trading and acquiring resources. It carries the tagline: “Trade. Build. Settle.”

According to Variety, Netflix has secured the planetary rights to Catan, and plans to merchandise assorted projects successful some live-action and animation. There’s speech of movie and scripted and unscripted TV. All projects volition beryllium produced by Darren Kyman from Asmodee (which precocious divided from Embracer), Pete Fenlon of Catan Studios, and Guido and Benjamin Teuber, the sons of Catan inventor Klaus Teuber.

Teuber archetypal published The Settlers of Catan successful Germany successful 1995. It would spell connected to go 1 of the biggest committee games ever, selling implicit 40 cardinal copies. He died aged 70 successful 2023.

Netflix is all-in connected Catan. Photo by Marijan Murat/picture confederation via Getty Images.

Benjamin and Guido Teuber, co-CEOs of Catan GmbH, offered the pursuing comment: “When our begetter Klaus Teuber archetypal introduced Catan 30 years ago, helium imagined an aspirational satellite wherever radical would stitchery by trading, gathering and settling unneurotic — some astatine the array and beyond it. This collaboration with Netflix marks an breathtaking caller section successful that journey. For 3 decades, Catan has connected families and friends astir the world. Now, we’re thrilled to spot it animate storytelling connected a planetary signifier — staying existent to our father’s imaginativeness of creativity, strategy and quality connection.”

There’s nary merchandise model for immoderate Catan projects, nor immoderate details connected what those projects volition be. But it’s wide Netflix sees immense worth successful projects based connected committee games and video games, pursuing a drawstring of successes. Indeed, Netflix struck a woody for the rights to Monopoly from Hasbro Entertainment earlier this year.

Photo by Marijan Murat/picture confederation via Getty Images.

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