Aaron And Adam Nee Board Live-Action ‘Catan’ Movie At Netflix

EXCLUSIVE: After landing the rights to the Catan board game in 2025, Netflix is making its first major move with the IP as sources tell Deadline Aaron and Adam Nee to write and direct a live-action movie based on the game.

Netflix had no comment.

The studio closed a deal for the exclusive global rights to popular multi-player board game Catan in October 2025 and Under the pact, the streamer would develop live-action and animated film and scripted TV series as well as unscripted projects and video games based on Catan by Klaus Teuber, originally released in 1995 as The Settlers of Catan, which has sold over 45 million copies and has been translated into over 40 languages.

The game is set on the fictional island of Catan, a place where settlers must navigate bountiful and varied landscapes, shifting alliances, and limited resources, while robbers roam the land. The game blends strategy, resource negotiation, and world-building.

Darren Kyman from the game’s publisher Asmodee, Pete Fenlon from Catan Studio (an Asmodee studio), and Teuber’s sons Guido Teuber and Benjamin Teuber will produce all projects under the deal alongside Roy Lee from Vertigo Entertainment.

For the Nee Brothers, the project marks another high-profile piece of IP can get to give their original spin to. They recently penned The Masters of the Universe and also penned the upcoming spy pic at Netflix starring Kevin Hart and Henry Cavill. On directing side, they helmed the actino comedy The Lost City starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.

They are repped by LBI, CAA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett and Kole.