Baldur's Gate TV show director wants BG3 cast involved on screen

Samantha Béart, who plays Karlach in Baldur's Gate 3, has shared an encouraging update about the HBO live-action series. She told GamesRadar that showrunner Craig Mazin reached out to her personally and said he believes the key cast of Baldur's Gate 3 should be "meaningfully on-screen on the show as someone familiar or someone new."

Mazin has form here — when he made The Last of Us for HBO, he brought in actors from the game for the show. Larian boss Swen Vincke also confirmed Mazin contacted the studio directly and told them he's a big fan of the game. Vincke said: "The endings of BG3 were created so they could serve as narrative soil for new adventures. There's plenty of directions they could go. I'm eager to find out which ones Craig and his team will pick. He's reached out for a chat, so we'll have the opportunity to tell him our thoughts."

The show will depict events after the game, which has fans worried about which of BG3's multiple endings it will treat as canon. Larian has no official involvement in the project — the studio ended its partnership with Wizards of the Coast, who own the Baldur's Gate and Dungeons & Dragons IP — so the series is moving forward without the original developers in any formal capacity.

Meanwhile, Larian is working on a new Divinity game. The studio drew fan backlash after it emerged that generative AI was used during early development, though Larian has since promised the final release will contain no AI-generated content.