D&D Movie/TV Netflix Planning Forgotten Realms D&D TV Show With Stranger Things Producer

A Dungeons & Dragons TV show set in the Forgotten Realms is in development at Netflix. Deadline reports that the new TV series, titled The Forgotten Realms, is being produced by Shawn Levy, with Drew Crevello serving as writer and showrunner. No timeframe was given for the show's release. No cast has been announced and neither Hasbro nor Netflix has actually confirmed the project. If successful, the series could launch a wider D&D cinematic universe, long a goal for Hasbro.

Hasbro has tried unsuccessfully to get Dungeons & Dragons to television for several years. At one point, Paramount+ had a TV show in development with Rawson Marshall Thurber writing the pilot. While the project was ultimately scrapped, Crevello (who was set to be showrunner on that version of the show) stayed on the project and redeveloped it with a new concept. According to Deadline, this project is not tied to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, although the movie is set to debut on Netflix this month and is also set in the Forgotten Realms.

Dungeons & Dragons was also featured in an episode of Secret Level, an animated series focused on various game franchises that aired on Amazon Prime. Legendary, meanwhile, is adapting Hasbro's other major fantasy franchise Magic: The Gathering into a movie and TV project.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Which to me, that’s totally what the Sword Coast would look like.

Yeah, Neverwinter in particular should be fairly wet.

 

[Queer Venger]

thank you for elevating this story.
Long Live the Realms!!!

(sorry Joe Manginello) ;-)

Casting: I would love LOVE LOVE a cameo by Ed Greenwood. In fact, if he's not a consultant I won't bother watching

 

[Queer Venger]

I think one of the flaws with the streaming model—Netflix in particular—is that when shows drop all at once, they font get time to built a following before getting lost in the shuffle. If they aren’t an instant hit, the odds of getting canceled are high, especially if they are expensive (and I’m betting thus would be).

But then, if they are renewed, they’ll go 2-3 years between seasons and it’s easy to forget the show, which I imagine leads to audience decline. I’d feel better if it were in one of the other services that didn’t have like 10 new shows a week… less likely to get lost.

some of us like to binge, binging is good; don't hate on binge please

 

[Queer Venger]

That's probably a technicality based on "We didn't 'cancel' it - we just decided not to renew it!"

Now, to be fair, the series that stands out most to my memory on this score is Sandman, which Netflix announced as top-watched when it dropped and then hemmed and hawed about giving it a Season Two, which at the time seemed insane, but now (even with a S2 still on the way) seems like it might have been sensible, given what's come to light re: Neil Gaiman. Of course, they'd have had to have known that at the time...

can you separate the art from the monster??
I think this will be the deciding factor if season 2 happens and doesn't tank.

 

[GreyLord]

You know what would be almost a perfect Game of Thrones/Not for Kids/ bring out all the dark aspects of Fantasy in all it's grotesque evil and terrible items type of thing.

Dark Sun.

Pitting the politics of the Dragon Kings and the darkness that they do would be a perfectly adult series that could spawn a ton of branches. It's not been as thoroughly explored as FR, DR, or Eberron and though it has a lot of suspect items (so did Game of Thrones and other series...when done right and portrayed as evil, audiences seem to love it), I think Dark Sun is the best series ripe for adaptation (a lot of that is there hasn't been as much exploration of Dark Sun as other D&D worlds, and it's dark) if one wanted to go that way.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

You know what would be almost a perfect Game of Thrones/Not for Kids/ bring out all the dark aspects of Fantasy in all it's grotesque evil and terrible items type of thing.

Dark Sun.

Pitting the politics of the Dragon Kings and the darkness that they do would be a perfectly adult series that could spawn a ton of branches. It's not been as thoroughly explored as FR, DR, or Eberron and though it has a lot of suspect items (so did Game of Thrones and other series...when done right and portrayed as evil, audiences seem to love it), I think Dark Sun is the best series ripe for adaptation (a lot of that is there hasn't been as much exploration of Dark Sun as other D&D worlds, and it's dark) if one wanted to go that way.

I wouldn't watch it. There is far too much dark and edgy on TV right now, when what I really want is optimistic escapism.

 

[Dire Bare]

Netflix has confirmed that they are not doing a season 3 for Sandman.

If I read the news correctly, they won't be releasing the second season either.

 

[Reynard]

If I read the news correctly, they won't be releasing the second season either.

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/sandman-new-episodes

 

[Zaukrie]

Well it's wotc. Netflix also doesn't gave the best reputation for delivering a final product.

And there's been a heap of D&D media cancelations. So until something finishes production or better yet released it's not worth getting to excited about.

It's also not worth being negative in every thread. At least not for me. Ymmv.

 

[Warren]

I think this update is great news. This is Netflix PR and linking a solid show runner. Not a rumour or a "maybe".