According to Jason Schreier, a Bloomberg journalist who’s publishing an entire novel on the inner workings of Blizzard, the company was in talks with Netflix about creating a series based on the game. Overwatch 2’s lore is something players have become deeply attached to over the years, but also something that we’ve seen less and less of from the team as time has gone on. With Blizzard layoffs impacting the studio heavily and a lot of the team behind the actual storytelling getting axed, this isn’t a huge surprise.
And, with the single player offering for Overwatch 2 being canned due to poor sales on the initial set of missions that were developed, new lore has been sparse and mostly attached to new heroes. However, according to Jason Schreier in his Reddit AMA discussing his novel, Play Nice, he revealed some of the things he learned about Blizzard from interviewing former and current employees. As it turns out, an Overwatch TV series was in the cards along with ones for Warcraft and Diablo.
“The book reveals that they had series in development with Netflix for Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo. But uh..
.” followed by a reference to a Variety article that described a Blizzard lawsuit against Netflix . Blizzard was suing the streaming giant, claiming that they poached former Blizz CFO Spencer Neumann away from the company.
As a result, any hope of getting these series made was snuffed out according to Schreier’s claims. And, while Diablo and Warcraft getting snubb.