Stuart Fails to Save the Universe Picked Up by HBO, Stars Alternate-Universe Versions of The Big Bang Theory Characters

HBO Max is making a Big Bang Theory spinoff series, truthful get acceptable for much nerds successful a sitcom setting. The streamer ordered a play of Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which volition beryllium enforcement produced by the Big Bang creators.

According to the show’s authoritative synopsis, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe volition halfway connected comic publication store proprietor Stuart Bloom, who “is tasked with restoring world aft helium breaks a instrumentality built by Sheldon and Leonard, accidentally bringing astir a multiverse Armageddon.

"Stuart is aided successful this quest by his woman Denise, geologist person Bert, and quantum physicist/all-around symptom successful the ass Barry Kripke. Along the way, they conscionable alternate-universe versions of characters we’ve travel to cognize and emotion from The Big Bang Theory. As the rubric implies, things don’t spell well.”

Stuart is getting his ain spinoff. Photo by Monty Brinton/CBS via Getty Images.

Creator Chuck Lorre explained successful a connection that helium truly wanted to flex his originative musculus with this project.

“I wanted to bash thing extremist that would instrumentality maine retired of my comfortableness zone. Something the characters connected The Big Bang Theory, would person loved, hated, and argued about,” helium said. Co-creator Zak Penn besides noted successful his ain connection that they wanted to marque “a amusement that the characters from Big Bang Theory would watch.”

HBO itself sounds conscionable arsenic pumped up. “We’re excited to beryllium continuing the bequest of The Big Bang Theory,” HBO Max brag Casey Bloys said successful a statement. “Much similar the archetypal series, this caller section wouldn’t beryllium imaginable without the imaginativeness and storytelling brilliance of Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, arsenic good arsenic Zak Penn, who has brought caller penetration and a distinctive dependable to an already exceptional originative team.”

Lorre besides erstwhile revealed that the amusement would beryllium effects-heavy and diagnostic a batch of CGI, truthful it'll beryllium absorbing to spot what comes of those tactics, particularly considering the sci-fi thin of the series.

No connection conscionable yet connected casting oregon erstwhile to expect the amusement to premiere, but 2026 is astir apt arsenic bully a conjecture arsenic immoderate astatine this point.

Lex Briscuso is movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.