{"id":845585,"date":"2026-09-12T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/845585\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:40:10","slug":"diablo-tv-series-in-the-works-at-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/845585\/","title":{"rendered":"Diablo TV Series in the Works at Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAn animated TV series adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment\u2019s popular \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/diablo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_diablo\" data-tag=\"diablo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diablo<\/a>\u201d video game franchise is in development at <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cDiablo\u201d is set the dark world of Sanctuary, where humanity is caught in the eternal conflict between the High Heavens and the Burning Hells. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPer Blizzard\u2019s official description of the project, \u201cAfter decades of bringing entire universes to life through our games, we\u2019re partnering with some creative powerhouses to tell even more stories beyond gaming across new screens. A new animated series set in the world of \u2018Diablo\u2019 is in development with Netflix. More details will be shared in the future, but this is only the beginning, with even more taking shape across our universes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe first \u201cDiablo\u201d game launched in 1996, marking this year as the 30th anniversary of the action-RPG franchise. The most recent \u201cDiablo\u201d game, \u201cDiablo IV,\u201d launched in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe \u201cDiablo\u201d TV series development news was announced by Blizzard president Johanna Faries during the opening ceremony of BlizzCon 2026 at the Anaheim Convention Center on Saturday. The two-day fan-festival event, which is the first BlizzCon since Microsoft closed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2023, is a celebration of all things Blizzard Entertainment, from \u201cDiablo\u201d to \u201cWorld of Warcraft\u201d to \u201cOverwatch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cBlizzCon in and of itself represents so much for all of us to be able to shine a light on all the great work going on at Blizzard,\u201d Faries told Variety in an <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/gaming\/news\/blizz-con-gta-6-new-releases-video-game-industry-fall-2026-1236857450\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/gaming\/news\/blizz-con-gta-6-new-releases-video-game-industry-fall-2026-1236857450\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interview ahead of the event<\/a>. \u201cWe have put a lot of thought into this moment, and why now, and how do we continue to capture and build on the momentum we\u2019re experiencing as an organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tVariety will be on the ground at BlizzCon Sept. 12-13 and readers can follow along with our coverage of the event <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/blizzcon\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/blizzcon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An animated TV series adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment\u2019s popular \u201cDiablo\u201d video game franchise is in development at Netflix.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[176457,110661,88,217,92],"class_list":["post-845585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-blizzcon","tag-diablo","tag-entertainment","tag-netflix","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}