Matt Dinniman had this to say about that concern: "We talked about it. I think if you poll a lot of the hardcore, original fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl and said, 'Would you rather have live action or animated?', most people would say 'animated.' But if you poll the normies on the street [I'm booing too, reader], you'll get 80%+ saying they want live action."

So they're trying to reach a bigger audience. I will say I am hopeful, Seth MacFarlane had some excessive CGI the Orville, and it actually looked decent. So hopefully we get good CGI in a live action Dungeon Crawler Carl.

Just finished book 8 and agreed. Can only hope that Matt has a heavy hand on production to at least make it as close as he envisions.

The only possible way to do it justice was animated. Hope they prove me wrong, but they're going to have to compromise massively somewhere to do it in live action w/ CGI.

I've just finished Book One - it was decent.

Standout moment was the in-dungeon description of Mana Toast. Top lols.

A lot of it seems to be im hallways and rooms and weird diners. So if they build some cool sets, and some good creature costumes, they could minimize the cgi. I would love some old school puppets, even if it looks weird than a cgi fest, because it is weird and can look weird.

I'm not proud of this answer, but I imagine ai

I just struggle to see how it won't end up being a campy neutered version of the idea. First off, one of the two main characters will end up being a CGI cat. Next a lot of the action happens because of the RPG side of the novel and that's gonna be a major pain in the ass to translate. Then there's the sheer volume of communication that goes on in the messaging system. Then there's the incredible amount of violence which will have to be reeled back in. Don't think they're gonna want Carl blowing up a nursery in episode 4.

I just don't feel like it'll have the off the wall crazy shit that makes the books good.

Yes, but do yourself a favor and get the audiobook. I've listened to hundreds of fantasy audio books. Jeff Hays is on a completely different level.

I’m a slow reader but I plowed through book one in a week because I just couldn’t put it down. Very fun and goofy

They are a lot deeper and more complex than the premise and first impression might suggest

Also, it's one of the very few cases where the audio books are even better

They're a good time for sure.

im ashamed to admit i haven’t completed any books in a long time

this was an exception

Get Jim Henson’s creature shop to take care of donut and she’ll come to life

I understand this is not a popular opinion. But I have to say, I really don't like hearing the voices from the audio book version of this series.

I completely agree that the voice actor deserves tons of credit. He's one person voicing like 20 different characters. It's impressive.

But when I read the books, I heard each character's voice in my head. And they all sound different because the author did a great job of writing them with different voices. They didn't all sound like one guy voicing 20 different characters.

For me, the audio book voices are all too much the same.