Amazon is Developing a Wolfenstein TV Series
According to CinemaDrame news agency, Amazon MGM Studios is working on a television adaptation of the Wolfenstein video game franchise. Variety has confirmed the project’s production and reports that the series’ premise is summed up in a simple line: “The story of killing Nazis is forever fresh.”
Patrick Somerville serves as creator, writer, and showrunner of the series, with executive producers including Jonah Nolan, Lisa Joy, James Altman, and Athena Wickham.
Wolfenstein is one of the pioneering first-person shooter games, following an American soldier named William B. J. Blazkowicz during World War II, who infiltrates enemy lines to eliminate Nazis but discovers they are conducting strange experiments to win the war.
The first game in the series, Castle Wolfenstein, was released in 1981. This game and its 1984 sequel, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, featured a top-down perspective. However, Wolfenstein 3D (1992) transformed the series into a first-person shooter. To date, 14 titles have been released, with the latest being Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot. The games are currently developed by MachineGames and published by Bethesda Softworks.
The Wolfenstein series is being produced by Kilter Films for Amazon, a company known for Fallout and The Peripheral—starring Chloë Grace Moretz—on Prime Video, as well as Westworld on HBO, and the TV adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’s fantasy novel Fourth Wing.
Somerville is best known for Netflix’s Maniac and HBO Max’s Station Eleven, and has an acclaimed track record including HBO’s The Leftovers. His other credits include The Bridge and 24: Live Another Day.
Amazon currently has multiple projects based on video games in development, including Mass Effect, God of War (greenlit in 2022), and the Warhammer 40,000 series starring Henry Cavill. A Wolfenstein movie was reported in development back in 2012, but that project never moved forward.
