After having some success as a screenwriter in Hollywood, Ted Peterson was attempting to pitch a TV Show based on The Elder Scrolls. This took place circa 2009. Actress Lucy Lawless was possibly attached to the project. However the pitch never got off the ground, as Todd Howard was preoccupied with working on the games.[1] Specific details about the pitch remain unknown.
When asked about the possibility of more Bethesda adaptions following the release of the Fallout TV show in an April 2025 interview with IGN, Howard stated "I don't know. There's nothing in the works, everybody asks, like, about Elder Scrolls, and I keep saying no also. And I would approach those - I'll probably say no. You never know if someone's gunna click. But I think this really came out of, 'we think things are aligning to do a high-quality job.' It wasn't forced. It was kind of a natural relationship and 'hey, this sounds really cool.' As opposed to, 'we should have a show,' right? It never came from that."[2]
Andrew Young has brought up interest in writing an animated Elder Scrolls series, similar to Castlevania and X-Men 97.[3]
