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“Family Guy” star Seth Green is a big “Dungeon Crawler Carl” fan who wants it to be known he’d love to join the cast of the live-action TV series — but doesn’t want to use his personal connections to land the part.
The show, which was ordered to series at Peacock last month
, is being produced by “Dungeon Crawler Carl” author Matt Dinniman and Green’s longtime friend and collaborator, Seth MacFarlane.Not too long after the announcement was made, Green posted art showcasing several different forms of the character Mordecai, a mentor to the titular Carl and his cat companion, Princess Donut, on Instagram and captioned it: “Who’s your favorite ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ character? I’m a Mordecai guy myself.” Fans were quick to notice he’d tagged Dinniman, MacFarlane and MacFarlane’s production company, Fuzzy Door, in the post.
So was this his initial pitch to be considered for the part? Kind of!
“My wife Clare [Grant] was reading [the latest book, ‘A Parade of Horribles’] in chapters before it even hit Patreon,” Green told Variety during a recent interview about joining the Global Gaming League as an advisory board member. “So I’ve been aware of this thing for a very long time, and you probably know that Fuzzy Door, Seth McFarlane’s company, who’s a friend of mine, is producing the project. So I guess I’m just making it known that I think I would make a really good Mordecai. I don’t know what their plan is. Nobody’s talked about it. I love Matt Dinniman, and we’ve definitely hung out, but I don’t know if he’ll have much say in it.”
And yes, Green does know both key players here. But the prolific voice actor, best known for his own series “Robot Chicken,” says he wants to come by the part honorably.
“Really, the only thing that could be convincing is like a thick fan movement where people agree collectively that I could play that part,” Green says. “That would really be helpful. But otherwise I guess we’re all just fans of this thing, and excited to see how it gets translated.”
Here’s the official logline for the “Dungeon Crawler Carl” TV series, which is being written by Chris Yost (“The Mandalorian”): “An alien invasion has wiped out most of humanity and any survivors are forced to fight for their lives on a sadistic intergalactic game show. Sounds bad, right? Now try doing it with bare feet and a stuck-up, self-centered, tiara-wearing talking cat as your partner. Welcome to Dungeon Crawler World: Earth, where the apocalypse will be televised … and Coast Guard vet Carl finds himself stuck with his ex-girlfriend’s award-winning show cat, Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk, as they try to survive the end of the world, fighting monsters, aliens, an insane A.I. and even other survivors … all for the sake of good TV. Survival is optional. Entertainment is not.”
No casting has been announced for the project yet, but fans are hoping for more word on the adaptation when Dinniman appears at San Diego Comic-Con later this month.
