Baldur’s Gate 3 HBO Series Confirmed, with Craig Mazin Set to Create and Continue the Story After the Game
A major new chapter is opening for one of the most celebrated modern RPGs, as a Baldur’s Gate 3 HBO series is now underway. According to a report from Deadline, Craig Mazin has been attached as creator, writer, showrunner, and executive producer, giving the project a high profile leadership structure from day 1. Mazin’s track record on Chernobyl and HBO’s The Last of Us puts him in a rare position where he has both prestige drama credibility and recent experience translating game adjacent storytelling for a mainstream audience.
The adaptation strategy appears to be the key differentiator. Rather than retelling the core plot beats of Baldur’s Gate 3, the HBO series is positioned to continue from the end of the game’s events. This is an aggressive but commercially smart move, because it gives fans what they have been actively asking for since Larian signaled it would not pursue major post launch narrative expansions in the form of big DLC arcs or a direct sequel. A continuation structure keeps the series from feeling like a recap, and it creates space to deepen the world’s political aftermath, faction consequences, and companion driven drama that made BG3 so sticky across dozens, sometimes hundreds, of hours.
That said, this approach comes with a uniquely Baldur’s Gate problem: canon is not singular. BG3’s signature strength is player agency, where major companion outcomes and faction resolutions can shift dramatically across playthroughs. Any screen adaptation that continues beyond the ending will need to establish an official thread for who survived, who stayed, who left, who ascended, and which alliances actually held. That is not a flaw, but it is a creative constraint that will require Mazin and the writing team to make hard calls that inevitably diverge from some players’ personal canon. If the series can frame those choices as one authoritative timeline while still respecting the spirit of agency, it can turn the adaptation into a living extension of the universe rather than a debate over which ending is correct.
The production team also signals a serious effort to align with Dungeons and Dragons storytelling fundamentals. The Deadline report notes executive producers including Jacqueline Lesko, Cecil O’Connor, and Hasbro Entertainment’s Gabriel Marano, with Chris Perkins involved as a consultant. That consultant role matters because BG3 thrives on DnD tone management, balancing high stakes fantasy with party banter, moral ambiguity, and the sudden chaos that feels like a dice roll went sideways. A TV series that captures that cadence without becoming parody is the real endgame.
Deadline also reports the series will include new characters alongside familiar ones from the game. That is a practical narrative play. New protagonists can serve as the audience on ramp, while legacy companions and iconic faces provide continuity and fan service without forcing the show into a rigid checklist of every possible player path. There is also reporting that Mazin has reached out to members of the voice cast to explore involvement, which would be an excellent authenticity lever if it translates into meaningful roles rather than a cameo gimmick.
On Larian’s side, the studio is not positioned as a formal production partner, but the door is not closed. Larian CEO Swen Vincke wrote on X that the endings were created to serve as narrative soil for new adventures, and he also noted that Mazin reached out to talk, suggesting some level of creative exchange may happen behind the scenes even if Larian is not credited as an official producing entity.
Crazy that a story that started out in a small hotel conference room eventually evolved into a narrative inspiring enough for it to become a HBO series.
— Swen Vincke @where? (@LarAtLarian) February 6, 2026
We worked incredibly hard on making Baldur's Gate 3 worthy of its legacy. Its characters and narratives are the result… https://t.co/eOuA5JEvn4
No release window has been announced. However, with Mazin also tied to ongoing work on The Last of Us, the industry expectation is that Baldur’s Gate 3 is a longer runway project. For fans, the bigger takeaway is simple: HBO is not just licensing a brand, it is building a continuation, and that is a meaningful commitment to treating BG3 as a franchise platform, not a one off adaptation experiment.
If the HBO series has to choose a canon path for companions like Astarion, Shadowheart, and Lae’zel, what outcome would you want locked in as the official timeline, and why?
