Jeff Hays Cast as Princess Donut in 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' TV
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- Jeff Hays has been cast as the voice of Princess Donut, the tiara-wearing talking cat, in Peacock's live-action 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' series, the first casting news since the show was ordered last month.
- The casting was announced Thursday during Penguin Random House's 'Spotlight on Matt Dinniman' panel at San Diego Comic-Con, with Hays already known to fans as the narrator and producer of all eight released 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' audiobooks.
- Chris Yost is set as writer and showrunner, with Seth MacFarlane, Erica Huggins, and Rachel Hargreaves-Heald executive producing for Fuzzy Door; Dinniman is co-executive producer, and the series comes from Universal Global Television.
- Actor Seth Green has publicly expressed interest in joining the cast, though no role has been confirmed for him.
- Matt Dinniman's 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' book series has sold more than 14 million copies across all formats, with the Hays-narrated audiobooks drawing more than 140 million listening hours on Audible.
- The series currently spans eight of a planned 10 novels, giving the Peacock adaptation a deep well of source material to draw from.
Why it matters: Hays has been the defining voice of the franchise for listeners, giving the Peabody-bound (— correction: Peacock) adaptation a built-in continuity advantage: fans who drove 140 million Audible hours already know exactly how Donut should sound, lowering the creative risk of translating a best-selling LitRPG to screen.
