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]

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.

Sure, it wasn't necessary, just enough of a thing in the way the game has been marketed to be a total turnoff for me. D&D us a great game, a solid implementation will be fun. But I don't need Larien's Edgelord BS, I can just play D&D myself.

Makes me think of the scene in Team America World Police, when they have the two marionettes unclothed and just smsh them together repeatedly.

Though it is worth noting that Shawn Levy's latest movie is the best artisric use of the hard R rating in probably a couple decades.

 

[Zardnaar]

BG3 isn't a D&D game it's a soft porn dating Sim

Started a new game last night. Just gotta find withers for all warlock party.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

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

One of the same writers, not the same showrunner, he was replaced by Shawn Levy and his Lap 21 company.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

BG3 isn't a D&D game it's a soft porn dating Sim

Started a new game last night. Just gotta find withers for all warlock party.

IT CAN BE BOTH! It has D&D combat and the FR setting.

 

[Demetrios1453]

The real question is - are they going to feature short/tall species, or will they be confined to only being side characters like in the movie? Otherwise, it's just going to be main characters being humans/elves/tieflings again, maybe orc depending on how hard the makeup would be. I know it would cost too much to do it via special effects for a main character, but maybe we can have someone who's somewhat short (not necessarily going the full Peter Dinklage situation) and just say they're a slightly taller than normal dwarf or something...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The real question is - are they going to feature short/tall species, or will they be confined to only being side characters like in the movie

It seems likely that they will realise major characters as humans in makeup. Characters involving scaling or other VFX are expensive in both time and money, and this will have a lower budget than HAT. Also, there is the a decent chance they will look rubbish, as we also saw occasionally in HAT.

Besides, sexy tieflings are in.

 

[Demetrios1453]

It seems likely that they will realise major characters as humans in makeup. Characters involving scaling or other VFX are expensive in both time and money, and this will have a lower budget than HAT. Also, there is the a decent chance they will look rubbish, as we also saw occasionally in HAT.

Besides, sexy tieflings are in.

Well, I was asking about doing it without special effects. Maybe someone who's 5 feet tall, and say they're just a particularly tall dwarf. Unfortunately, dwarves might be the only one to get away with that, as halflings or gnomes might be too short to pull that off.

 

[TiQuinn]

The stuff targeted at kids hasn't done that well. Not everything needs to be for kids.

Not saying a later show say set in Eberron can't be for kids.

The stuff targeted at kids has done fine, IMO. And what does Eberron have to do with kids anyways?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Either way I would probably watch it, unless it's campy, I can't stand that anymore.

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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Well, I was asking about doing it without special effects. Maybe someone who's 5 feet tall, and say they're just a particularly tall dwarf. Unfortunately, dwarves might be the only one to get away with that, as halflings or gnomes might be too short to pull that off.

Camera angles can do a lot, as anyone who's seen Reacher (starring a 6'2" actor who convincingly plays 6'5") can tell you.

Dwarves and goliaths can be done pretty easily on TV with pretty basic make-up and costuming.