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.

 

[Parmandur]

Not having gratuitous violence, nudity and swearing does not mean it’s aimed at kids. Plenty of adults don’t like that stuff (and plenty of 13 year olds who do).

Yeah, R does not mean "for adults" anymore than PG13 means "for kids". All it means it has material that will restrict the audience, hence R.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

Not having gratuitous violence, nudity and swearing does not mean it’s aimed at kids. Plenty of adults don’t like that stuff (and plenty of 13 year olds who do).

BG3's success suggests that the adults who don't like that stuff are in the minority.

 

[bedir than]

Same show runner though, so are we sure about that...?

Deadline could be incorrect.

But the article says

With Hasbro’s in-house division Hasbro Entertainment now in charge, the Dungeons & Dragons adaptation underwent redevelopment with Crevello at the helm and a brand new concept not related to the past D&D development with Thurber and Paramount or the Honor Among Thieves movie.

 

[bedir than]

BG3's success suggests that the adults who don't like that stuff are in the minority.

Every top 10 streaming show on every platform right now is a demonstration that R limits the audience.
One success doesn't override 1000s of other data points.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

BG3's success suggests that the adults who don't like that stuff are in the minority.

So, you don't think BG3 was bought by droves of 13 years olds? Because as a secondary school teacher, I sure have news for you...

 

[Parmandur]

Every top 10 streaming show on every platform right now is a demonstration that R limits the audience.
One success doesn't override 1000s of other data points.

Exactly, Has ro is not interested in restricting their audience for D&D.

 

[Parmandur]

So, you don't think BG3 was bought by droves of 13 years olds? Because as a secondary school teacher, I sure have news for you...

But of course! As I said, R doesn't mean "for adults".

However, I did not buy nor play BG3, nor do I plan to, and the hard R borderline NC-17 material is why. And the entire history of rated material shows that goijg hard R is not a great bet.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

So, you don't think BG3 was bought by droves of 13 years olds? Because as a secondary school teacher, I sure have news for you...

Ok, let me expand my statement so that there's no room for confusion:

BG3's success suggests that the adults and children who don't like that stuff are in the minority.

 

[Oofta]

BG3's success suggests that the adults who don't like that stuff are in the minority.

Just as likely adults who don't like that stuff simply didn't pursue romances.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

But of course! As I said, R doesn't mean "for adults".

However, I did not buy nor play BG3, nor do I plan to, and the hard R borderline NC-17 material is why. And the entire history of rated material shows that goijg hard R is not a great bet.

One of the things about BG3 is it's all vaguely cartoonish, it doesn't look like real blood and nudity (not that there is that much of that unless you play a monk PC and run around naked all the time). I think the bear sex caught people's attention (nothing like being censored to make people want to see what the fuss is about) but they stayed because the gameplay was excellent.