Aaron and Adam Nee to Write and Direct Netflix's Catan Movie

Aaron and Adam Nee will write and direct a live-action movie based on Catan, the board game, for Netflix. Deadline reported the news on 9 November 2026.

The brothers are best known for The Lost City, the action comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum. According to Deadline, they directed that film, and now they are taking on a project built around a game rather than a book, comic or earlier movie.

Catan is a game for several players. Players collect resources such as wood, brick and wheat, then trade them to build roads, settlements and cities on a shared island. Klaus Teuber created it. It first came out in 1995 as The Settlers of Catan, and Deadline says it has sold more than 45 million copies and been translated into more than 40 languages.

The movie is part of a wider deal. Netflix closed a pact in October 2025 for exclusive global rights to Catan, which means the streamer alone can develop screen and game projects based on the property around the world. Under that agreement, Netflix will develop live-action and animated films, scripted and unscripted television series, and video games, Deadline reports.

Several people will produce the projects. Deadline names Darren Kyman from Asmodee, Pete Fenlon from Catan Studio, Guido Teuber and Benjamin Teuber, and Roy Lee from Vertigo Entertainment as producers across the whole deal.

The announcement does not give a release date, a cast or a start of filming. Those decisions usually come later in a film's life, after a script is finished and a studio commits money to production. For now, the news is about who will shape the story, and the brothers' name on a Netflix project is the first public step.

Anyone who has played Catan will know how much of the fun comes from trading and bargaining with friends. Whether a film can capture that feeling is a question for later, once there is something to watch.