Netflix to make various movies and shows based on the board game Catan

According to Variety, Netflix has secured the global rights to Catan, and plans to release various projects in both live-action and animation. Theres talk of film and scripted and unscripted TV. All projects will be produced by Darren Kyman from Asmodee (which recently split from Embracer), Pete Fenlon of Catan Studios, and Guido and Benjamin Teuber, the sons of Catan inventor Klaus Teuber.

Teuber first published The Settlers of Catan in Germany in 1995. It would go on to become one of the biggest board games ever, selling over 40 million copies. He died aged 70 in 2023.

https://www.ign.com/articles/netflix-goes-all-in-on-catan-with-live-action-and-animated-films-and-tv-series-planned

A Monopoly movie has been coming since 2007. Watch this come out first.

I don't really get what this adds other than branding. There's not really any characters or stories in the setting. It's just a backdrop for the board game.

Episodes 1-3 are jolly, everyone collaborating and enjoying the bounty of the island

Episodes 4-6, resources get tight as competing projects demand concessions. Trade networks are strained and tempers begin to flare

Episode 7, a band of thieves raids the village, steals all the clay, and claims the clay pits as their own. The village can't produce any bricks to build a road to the harbor.

Episode 8, an army of knights arrives and removes the band of thieves, only to take the remaining clay and then sit on a wheat farm as a form of extortion.

Episode 9 (finale), village raises its own army and pushes the invaders out. Key characters die, but the sheep Barron remains and advocates for the harbor initiative.

Post credit scene involves a view of a large city, inside the city a great market is being built. Pan to a dude in a fancy sheep cape grinning and sliding another marker on his abacus. It shows 8 pieces on one side....

Anybody have wood for sheep?

Maybe it'll be like Jumanji.