DreamWorks’ ‘The Bad Guys’ Head To Streaming With New Netflix Series ‘Breaking In’

DreamWorks Animation is expanding one of its most successful recent film franchises with a new Netflix series, The Bad Guys: Breaking In, debuting on November 6.

Serving as a prequel to the hit feature films, the six-episode show follows Wolf and his crew in their early days as would-be criminal masterminds, long before they became the world’s favorite reformed felons. Determined to top 6 News Nightly’s “Worst of the Worst” list, Wolf pushes the team into bolder heists, though, as has been shown in the franchise’s previous outings, they’re not exactly great at being bad.

Breaking In continues DreamWorks’ push to expand The Bad Guys beyond the big screen. Like the Netflix holiday specials A Very Bad Holiday (2023) and Haunted Heist (2024), the new show is set before the first feature, following the crew’s early days as aspiring criminals. But unlike those one-off specials, it tells a serialized story across six episodes, deepening the backstory that leads into the hit 2022 film and its 2025 sequel.

The series is being executive produced by Bret Haaland (Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness) and Katherine Nolfi, and features a voice cast led by Michael Godere (Wolf), Ezekiel Ajeigbe (Shark), Raul Ceballos (Piranha), Chris Diamantopoulos (Snake), and Mallory Low (Tarantula), alongside Zehra Fazal, Patton Oswalt, and Kate Mulgrew.

DreamWorks has been steadily building The Bad Guys into a cross-platform brand since the first film’s 2022 release. That feature grossed over $250 million worldwide and spawned the 2025 sequel The Bad Guys 2. Based on Aaron Blabey’s best-selling Scholastic book series, the property has sold more than 30 million copies globally.