Amazon to Adapt Wolfenstein into Live-Action Series Led by Patrick Somerville
The official logline underscores Amazon’s focus on proven game lore in an expansion of its video-game adaptation slate.
Overview
- Amazon MGM Studios has begun development of a live-action Wolfenstein series for Prime Video under the official logline “The story of killing Nazis is evergreen.”
- Patrick Somerville will serve as creator, writer, showrunner and executive producer on the series through his chaoticgood.tv production company.
- Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy of Kilter Films, James Altman of Keyframe Films, and Jerk Gustafsson and Athena Wickham of MachineGames will executive produce the adaptation.
- The series will follow the games’ core premise of a U.S. WWII soldier confronting Nazi occult experiments behind enemy lines.
- The project joins Amazon’s expanding slate of video-game adaptations but plot specifics, casting and a release window remain undisclosed.