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.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

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

Yeah, it's what it is.

These are both good options, but it does mean a wetter than usual look to the Forgotten Realms…

Wetter than the Pacific Northwest? It's a rainforest!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Wetter than the Pacific Northwest? It's a rainforest!

Ireland? In my experience, yes.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

can you separate the art from the monster??

It's a really good question long-term. The answer so far seems to be: That depends - is the monster Dead? (Then yes, otherwise no.)

A sickeningly large number of our "heroes" are actually monsters, and the rest are a mixed bag, like the rest of us. The mixed bag part is tricky, because it's always hard to tell what it means, in particular with celebrities. Being rude to a fan is one thing - assaulting them is another. I don't have any answers.

 

[Reynard]

It's a really good question long-term. The answer so far seems to be: That depends - is the monster Dead? (Then yes, otherwise no.)

A sickeningly large number of our "heroes" are actually monsters, and the rest are a mixed bag, like the rest of us. The mixed bag part is tricky, because it's always hard to tell what it means, in particular with celebrities. Being rude to a fan is one thing - assaulting them is another. I don't have any answers.

Yeah -- if the artist is still alive and financially benefiting from the work, then I think it is reasonable to not separate them.

But it is also a personal choice, both for individuals and for corporations. We can't, and shouldn't, try and force people to think like we do. The best thing we can do is model what we believe to be good and put our money where our mouth is.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Ireland? In my experience, yes.

I assume that you have much more experience with Ireland than you do with Seattle or Vancouver. At any rate, it's a silly thing for us to debate - they're both very very wet. And either way, filming just waits until the weather is good to film outdoors and shoots indoors when it's raining.

IDK if you ever watched the X-Files, but it always stood out to me that the TV show was always gloomy, and then the movie was bright and colourful. The difference was the show was filmed in Vancouver, and the movie was filmed in LA. They weren't trying for a different tone at all. It just WAS.

 

[Warren]

IDK if you ever watched the X-Files, but it always stood out to me that the TV show was always gloomy, and then the movie was bright and colourful. The difference was the show was filmed in Vancouver, and the movie was filmed in LA. They weren't trying for a different tone at all. It just WAS.

I think it's fair to say they shot a lot of stuff in specific weather and it added to the show. The sun does shine here in Vancouver, but if you want rain and clouds, it's obviously a better bet than LA.

Similarly, Shogun was filmed in Vancouver and you can tell. We also have "Icewind Dale" style locations close by.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I assume that you have much more experience with Ireland than you do with Seattle or Vancouver. At any rate, it's a silly thing for us to debate - they're both very very wet. And either way, filming just waits until the weather is good to film outdoors and shoots indoors when it's raining.

IDK if you ever watched the X-Files, but it always stood out to me that the TV show was always gloomy, and then the movie was bright and colourful. The difference was the show was filmed in Vancouver, and the movie was filmed in LA. They weren't trying for a different tone at all. It just WAS.

No, and the only American in my D&D group is from California, which probably colours my imagination.

But it’s an interesting point about the X-files, choice of filming location will affect the tone of the show.

 

[Oofta]

I assume that you have much more experience with Ireland than you do with Seattle or Vancouver. At any rate, it's a silly thing for us to debate - they're both very very wet. And either way, filming just waits until the weather is good to film outdoors and shoots indoors when it's raining.

If you ever have the chance to visit the Tillamook rainforest in Oregon, it's pretty amazing. It typically rains every day.

IDK if you ever watched the X-Files, but it always stood out to me that the TV show was always gloomy, and then the movie was bright and colourful. The difference was the show was filmed in Vancouver, and the movie was filmed in LA. They weren't trying for a different tone at all. It just WAS.

It's similar to Supernatural that theoretically travelled around the country to cities large and small and it was always obviously Vancouver. They once had a show set in a small city about 20 miles from where I grew up in the middle of southern Minnesota farm country. They had scenes of them running through the Vancouver evergreen forest and we just groaned. But I get it, TV budgets and all.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

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

I think sometimes it's just the nature of typing and reading rather than speaking directly to people. For example, I'm pretty optimistic about this show.

 

[Parmandur]

Ireland? In my experience, yes.

For context, the Coumbia river basin is technically a rainforest because of how wet it is.