The Witcher are developing a
World of Darkness universe, based on tabletop gaming franchise, for film and TV.
Variety reports that married writer-producers Heisserer and Boylan and the production company Hivemind, behind such genre hits as
The Witcher and
World of Darkness story universe for film and television.
Originally created by Mark Rein-Hagen for White Wolf Publishing, the
World of Darkness began as a 1991 tabletop roleplaying game titled
Vampire: The Masquerade. The
Werewolf: The Apocalypse,
Orpheus, and
Hunter: The Reckoning. Soon it would forge beyond the tabletop world, spawning video games, comic books, novels, virtual reality games, and card and board games.
We might not be getting a new
Vampire: The Masquerade game any time soon, but according to new reports, we might soon be getting a new slate of movies and TV shows based around that game and its wider universe, the World of Darkness. Paradox Interactive, the company that publishes World of Darkness, has partnered with Hivemind (the production company behind
The Witcher) to create a cinematic universe based around this game universe.
World of Darkness is a series of tabletop RPGs about monsters living in hiding amongst human society it’s much darker and horror-based than it sounds from that description. The one most familiar to gamers is probably
Castle writer/producer Christine Boylan to develop a “shared universe” based on the
World Of Darkness line of tabletop role-playing games created by Mark Rein-Hagen in 1991. If you’re not familiar, the
World Of Darkness encompasses things you may have heard of like
Vampire: The Masquerade,
Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and
Hunter: The Reckoning, which are all separate games that take place in the same cool goth-punk world and focus on various supernatural creatures going about their goth lives. Unlike
Dungeons & Dragons, they’re less about fighting enemies and more about telling stories and cosplaying as your vampire OC.
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nomination for the Amy Adams-starring 2016 sci-fi drama
Arrival, is developing a shared universe with
Punisher and
The World of Darkness, created by White Wolf Publishing in 1991, is best known for
Vampire: The Masquerade but has an entire set of RPGs that utilized shared universes decades before they became “cinematic universes” thanks to Marvel and DC. The “Old World of Darkness” setting that served as the original set of games featured
Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, Changeling: The Dreaming, Demon: The Fallen, and
Wraith: The Oblivion. The games saw players take on the roles of supernatural creatures in a gothic-punk version of the real world where monsters lurked in decaying urban metropolises and conspiracies both arcane and mundane moved behind the scenes to manipulate things for their own ends.