The Dangan Expansion

The Dangan Expansion (released as America: The Dangan Expansion for season 1, Europe: The Dangan Expansion for season 2, Africa: The Dangan Expansion for season 3 and Australia: The Dangan Expansion for season 4) is an upcoming anthology television series that will stream on HBO Max. It is a live-action "expansion" of Spike Chunsoft's visual novel franchise, Danganronpa, taking place within its universe. Each season is set in a different continent in the same week and involves people who live in their respective continents investigating mysterious murders around their countries before finding themselves in the source, a killing game set by each Mono unit relating to their country. The animated finale film, The Dangan Graduation, connects more with the games by setting it in the rebuilt Hope's Peak Academy.

The Dangan Expansion
Four people, a young American man who seeks to get back to his family, a European woman trying to find her place in life, an African-American soldier who returns from war, and a redeemed Australian criminal released from his prison, are each informed of mysterious deaths throughout their respective countries before finding themselves in the source of the murders, a killing game set by a Mono unit in each country. Now they have one goal, to protect themselves from other unwilling participants and be the last man standing.

The Dangan Graduation
The survivors of each country, some with fallen allies, each board an airplane that teleports them to Hope's Peak Academy, where a new Monokuma tasks them with one last goal to graduate and become the true winner of the Dangan Expansion, to kill each other and become the last contestant standing.

America

 * Damien Tran as an American man who tries to get home to his family
 * Tran also provides the voice of MONO, a Mono unit in form of a public address system that announces the killing game
 * TBA as a teenage girl that the man tries to protect from being killed by the other unwilling participants
 * TBA as other participants

Europe

 * TBA as a European woman who seeks to find her own place in life
 * TBA as the voice of Eurokuma, a bear-based Mono unit who bears a resemblance on Monokuma but with the colors of the European flag
 * TBA as other participants

Africa

 * Aldis Hodge as a African-American soldier who returned from war
 * Isaiah Crews as the soldier's son. Tran cast Crews after seeing him playing Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc with his father, Terry Crews
 * TBA as the voice of Ku'ma, an elephant-based Mono unit
 * TBA as other participants

Australia

 * TBA as a redeemed Australian criminal who was released from prison
 * TBA as the voice of Monoka, a kangaroo-based Mono unit
 * TBA as other participants

The Dangan Graduation

 * Brian Beacock as Monokuma 2.0, a stuffed robotic bear built from the remains of the original.

Trivia

 * Tran once planned a live-action television series adaptation of the games but changed to an original story set within the rest of the world and the game's universe because he wanted the series to answer the question, "What if the killing game has expanded to the rest of the world?"
 * Tran cites The Purge franchise as an major influence on the series. Other influences include the Hunger Games franchise, The Belko Experiment, Battle Royale and many others.
 * The fate of each survivor in The Dangan Graduation depend on the country the viewer is in, e.g. in American versions of the film, the American man kills the three contestants and becomes the true winner.