Wolfenstein 3 hopes reignited as live action TV show is announced
There are so many TV and film adaptations of video games currently in production it's hard to keep up, between new seasons of The Last Of Us, animated Splinter Cell shows, another Street Fighter movie, an OutRun adaptation from Michael Bay, and many others.
There's a chance some of them will not see the light of day (Netflix's take on Tom Clancy's The Division appears to be one such casualty) but Amazon, following the success of Fallout, has given the green light to a slew of projects based on video games over recent years.
And now another one has been added to the pile, with a series based on the grandaddy of all first person shooters.
According to Variety, Amazon is in development on a Wolfenstein live action series. While plot details are being kept secret, the official logline just about sums it up: 'The story of killing Nazis is evergreen.'
The show is being created, written, and executive produced by Patrick Somerville, who has a pretty strong CV. He previously created Netflix's Maniac starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, along with HBO miniseries Station Eleven, which was nominated for seven Emmys.
Wolfenstein developer MachineGames is involved too, with the studio's co-founder Jerk Gustafsson serving as an executive producer, alongside Jonah Nolan, Lisa Joy, and Athena Wickham via Kilter Films.
Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning.
If you're unfamiliar, Wolfenstein is a series of games set in an alternate history of the Second World War. The first two games by Muse Software were 1981's Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, which had a top-down perspective and were a very early example of a stealth game.
The games remained little known until id Software purchased the rights and made 1992's Wolfenstein 3D – the precursor to Doom and the first widely popular first person shooter. More Trending
Today, the series is synonymous with developer MachineGames, who rebooted the series in 2014, with Wolfenstein: The New Order and its sequel Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. These featured much more storytelling and social commentary, while maintaining a heightened sense of absurdity, and are presumably what the TV show will be based on.
A third mainline game in the series has been rumoured for some time but never officially announced, and it's unclear what the studio is working on now following Indiana Jones And The Great Circle. Although they have hinted at a Quake reboot (also an id Software property) multiple times.
The Amazon adaptation implies there's now a greater chance of a third game coming to fruition, if it isn't already underway. Job listings in 2023 suggested another sequel was in the works, and Bethesda's former head of publishing, Pete Hines, was very keen on the idea, but the poor sales of Wolfenstein 2 and its spin-offs has always left a third title in doubt.
This Wolfenstein series is one of many video game adaptations currently in the works at Amazon. Along with Fallout and Secret Level, which are both getting second seasons, the company has green-lit shows based on Mass Effect, God Of War, and tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000 with Henry Cavill.
Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter.
To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here.
For more stories like this, check our Gaming page.
MORE: 7 films celebrating women in sport after the Lionesses win Euro 2025
MORE: Battlefield 6 battle royale map leaks alongside new gameplay videos
MORE: The terrifying case of the 'crossbow cannibal' who idolised the Yorkshire Ripper
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Scottish Sun
41 minutes ago
- Scottish Sun
Spooky Jenna Ortega ruffles feathers in frilly dress at Paris premiere of Wednesday season 2
Wednesday has been viewed 252 million times and counting WOOHOO LA-LA, JEN Spooky Jenna Ortega ruffles feathers in frilly dress at Paris premiere of Wednesday season 2 Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) OO-La-la! Spooky Jenna Ortega ruffles more than some feathers in a frilly dress in Paris. The US star wore the brown frock for the French premiere of the second series of Netflix hit Wednesday, directed by Tim Burton. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 3 Jenna Ortega at the Paris premiere of the second series of Netflix hit Wednesday Credit: Getty 3 With Tim Burton, who directs the Netflix smash Credit: Shutterstock Editorial The show, based on the daughter from The Addams Family, will return next week after the original run became a ratings hit following its release in 2022. On the reception to the first series, Jenna, 22, said: 'I'm still very appreciative and grateful. "We didn't know that anyone was going to watch the show. 'You do these things and you don't know what's to come, so it was very overwhelming.' A former child star, Jenna was catapulted into the A list when Wednesday – viewed 252 million times and counting – launched in 2022. And by her own refreshingly candid admission, that rapid rise to the top was overwhelming. 'To be quite frank, after the show and trying to figure everything out, I was an unhappy person,' she told Harper's Bazaar in May. 'After the pressure, the attention – as somebody who's quite introverted, that was so intense and so scary.' The eight-month shoot in Romania had been challenging, with Jenna revealing: 'I was alone. Never had any hot water. The boilers in two of my apartments were broken, so I always took cold showers.' At least she'll be getting a warm welcome from Wednesday fans as the show returns to their screens. Game of Thrones star looks worlds away from Westeros after glam transformation for Netflix's Addams Family spin-off
The Sun
41 minutes ago
- The Sun
Spooky Jenna Ortega ruffles feathers in frilly dress at Paris premiere of Wednesday season 2
OO-La-la! Spooky Jenna Ortega ruffles more than some feathers in a frilly dress in Paris. The US star wore the brown frock for the French premiere of the second series of Netflix hit Wednesday, directed by Tim Burton. The show, based on the daughter from The Addams Family, will return next week after the original run became a ratings hit following its release in 2022. On the reception to the first series, Jenna, 22, said: 'I'm still very appreciative and grateful. "We didn't know that anyone was going to watch the show. 'You do these things and you don't know what's to come, so it was very overwhelming.' A former child star, Jenna was catapulted into the A list when Wednesday – viewed 252 million times and counting – launched in 2022. And by her own refreshingly candid admission, that rapid rise to the top was overwhelming. 'To be quite frank, after the show and trying to figure everything out, I was an unhappy person,' she told Harper's Bazaar in May. 'After the pressure, the attention – as somebody who's quite introverted, that was so intense and so scary.' The eight-month shoot in Romania had been challenging, with Jenna revealing: 'I was alone. Never had any hot water. The boilers in two of my apartments were broken, so I always took cold showers.' At least she'll be getting a warm welcome from Wednesday fans as the show returns to their screens. Game of Thrones star looks worlds away from Westeros after glam transformation for Netflix's Addams Family spin-off 3
BBC News
41 minutes ago
- BBC News
Love Island finale, and Wednesday returns: What's coming up this week?
This week, we will finally find out which couple has been crowned winners of the latest Love that's not all the next seven days have in show Wednesday is back for series 2, new Sir David Attenborough-narrated series Parenthood is released, and MasterChef is scheduled to be back on BBC One - after a rocky period for the on for what's coming up this week... A dramatic end to a drama-filled Love Island By Lizzy Bella, BBC NewsbeatThere won't be any more bombshells on our screens this summer as Love Island wraps up its 12th series on series came with less filter but more chaos and more drama than you may have bargained for – with arguably the biggest girl divide the villa has ever you're team Toni and Shakira or team Meg and Helena, you'll probably agree the cast have had you laughing, frustrated, teary-eyed but always craving inevitable a great cast makes a great while the winners of the £50,000 cash prize may seem obvious, if there's one thing this season has taught us it's that situations change, feelings change and people do too. Wednesday is out, on Wednesday The first four episodes of Wednesday's second season are released this week (on Wednesday, naturally).It follows Wednesday Addams as she returns to Nevermore Academy, now under the leadership of a new also sees a bigger role for Wednesday's parents, who will have an increased presence on the school's first season of the show about the Addams family's deadpan daughter became Netflix's most popular English-language series ever after its release in ahead of the new season's launch, lead star Jenna Ortega told my colleague Lizo Mzimba that the sudden fame that came with the show was "very overwhelming".But she added she was "very grateful and glad that it was able to resonate with people in the way that it did". Parenthood with Sir David (not Steve Martin) By Paul Glynn, culture reporterSir David Attenborough returns to BBC One on Sunday with a new five-part wildlife series showing how parents from across the animal kingdom sacrifice everything in order to raise their spoilers but this is quite literally true in the case of the African social spiders who, as we discover in Parenthood, eat their mothers and elderly relatives alive. Do not try this at home please, kids."Success for all parents has perhaps the greatest of consequences," we hear Sir David - now 99 - declare at one stage. "It ensures the future of life on our planet."In other words: respect your elders. MasterChef is back MasterChef has been rocked by controversy in recent on Wednesday, the new amateurs series of the BBC show is scheduled to begin - with both Gregg Wallace and John Torode in series was filmed in 2024, before its two presenters were this month, a report by the show's production company revealed that more than 40 claims against Wallace had been upheld, while an allegation that Torode had used a severely offensive racist term was also week, the BBC announced that the series would still be shown on BBC One and iPlayer. The corporation said it had taken the decision "after careful consideration and consultation with the contestants" - but it's faced a backlash from some News understands the new series may be re-edited in light of the findings, with the prominence of Wallace and Torode show is on three nights a week until the finals. Freakier Friday hits cinemas It's been a long, long time since the 2003 film Freaky Friday, but the wait for a sequel is finally Friday hits cinemas on Friday, and sees Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reprise their roles as mother and daughter duo Tess and Anna played by Lohan, is now a mother herself, and the film once again sees a body swap - with even more characters chaos and identity crises galore, much like what ensued in the first Friday became a huge hit more than 20 years ago, and won a cult following - so you can expect many of its original fans (your writer included) to be heading out to catch this next week. Other highlights this week Chloe Ayling: My Unbelievable Kidnapping is released on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer on MondayRambert Dance in Peaky Blinders is on at Sadlers Wells from TuesdayBoardmasters Festival in Cornwall starts on Wednesday
