The American Vandal Team Is Working on 'The Last Dance' Style Mockumentary About Esports - IGN - IGN

The creators of American Vandal are creating a mockumentary in the style of The Last Dance about a fictional pro League of Legends esports team.

Titled PLAYERS, this documentary series is being produced by CBS Studios for Paramount+ and it will explore the world of esports through a comedic lens. Creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault will examine esports through a fictional pro League of Legends team aiming to achieve their first championship win.

"PLAYERS is a comedic documentary-style series that follows a fictional pro League of Legends esports team as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache," a press release reads. "To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together."

This series will be produced by CBS Studios in association with Funny or Die and it will actually reunite Yacenda and Perrault after their work on two seasons of American Vandal. Both will serve as co-creators and executive producers for PLAYERS, but Yacenda will also direct the series.

Funny or Die's Joe Farrell and Mike Farah will serve as executive producers, too, alongside Tim McAuliffe, 3Arts' Ari Lubet, Brillstein Entertainment Pictures' Todd Sellers, and the studio behind League of Legends, Riot Games.

American Vandal: Season 1 Photos

Anyone that's watched American Vandal, a raunchy and hilarious high-school-based mockumentary, knows that Yacenda and Perrault don't pull any punches when it comes to telling their stories, so it will be interesting to see if PLAYERS leans as hard into the raunch, vulgarity, and critical nature that American Vandal did, especially with Riot Games actually involved.

League of Legends is a great window into esports as it's one of the most-played PC games in the world, generating billions of hours in gameplay each year. It also happens to be the largest esport on the planet, with the 2020 League of Legends World Championship Finals “generating a record-breaking 23.04 million average minute audience,” according to a press release about PLAYERS.

PLAYERS will hit Paramount+ when it premieres, but a release date for the mockumentary series has not yet been revealed.

While waiting for PLAYERS, read about why we gave Season 1 of American Vandal a 9.1 out of 10 in IGN's review and then check out our thoughts on the second season in IGN's American Vandal Season 2 review.

Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

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