Netflix’s live-action Catan film reportedly finds its directors in the Nee brothers

Back in October 2025 Netflix secured the worldwide TV and film rights to Klaus Teuber’s Catan board game. Now, according to Deadline, the live-action film may have found its creative team. Deadline reported on 9th November that Aaron and Adam Nee have been tapped to write and direct it.

The film is part of a wider deal between Netflix and Asmodee that spans live-action and animated projects, scripted series and unscripted formats. Netflix named Asmodee’s Darren Kyman, Catan Studio’s Pete Fenlon and Teuber’s sons Guido and Benjamin as producers under the deal, with Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment also attached to produce.

Who are Aaron and Adam Nee?

The brothers directed and co-wrote The Lost City (2022), the action comedy in which Sandra Bullock plays a romance novelist kidnapped by a treasure hunter and Channing Tatum plays the cover model who sets out to rescue her. Their earlier work includes The Last Romantic, which premiered at SXSW in 2006, and Band of Robbers, a crime comedy that recasts Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as adults in the present day, which was released in 2016.

More recently, the pair shared story and screenplay credits on 2026’s Masters of the Universe, the live-action He-Man film directed by Travis Knight. They also share writing credits on McG’s upcoming, currently untitled, Netflix spy comedy starring Kevin Hart and Henry Cavill.

What could a Catan film be about?

Netflix has yet to release a synopsis so we don’t really have any idea what direction the film will take. The original announcement described the fictional island and the pressures familiar to anyone who has played the game. Settlements competing for resources, alliances shifting and robbers roaming the island. The online version of the game gives a wider array of characters, with their own quirks and apparent agendas, and Teuber himself gave the island an origin story in Catan: The Novel.

The novel opens in Norway in 860 and follows three brothers who leave their homeland with family and allies and sail to Catan. The novel offers one possible route into the setting, though there’s no word that it’s the basis for the film. The Nee brothers’ credits also make a lighter adventure easy to imagine.

When will Catan come out?

Netflix has to date not announced a release date or even a target year for a potential release and, currently, there are no reports of cast or filming timetable, so there’s little basis for even trying to guess when the film will arrive.

First published in 1995 as The Settlers of Catan, Teuber’s game had sold more than 45 million copies worldwide by the time Netflix announced the deal. For many gamers, Catan was their introduction to modern board games, and it certainly helped kick off the modern wave to growth and mass popularity that board gaming has seen in the last few decades.