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.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Fingers crossed that we see some or all of the BG3 companion characters show up in this.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Not surprised. Sandman was terrible. Acting and writing were so poor.

That's not at all what is happening here.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

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...

I'm hoping for an Aasimar character.

D&D Dwarves are too tall for Peter, they are 4 to 5 feet tall, medium creatures, it's a quirk of D&D compared to LotR or Snow White.

Gnomes and Halflings on the other hand maybe.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

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.

That’s a fairly ridiculous comparison. The only way I could tell the difference between 6’2 and 6’5 is if they were standing back to back, and then I would have to stand on a box to see. But I can easily tell the difference between 4’ and 5’.

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

You could do a Goliath that way, and it would make more sense than Tolkien-knock-offs. This show needs its own identity, not to be Rings of Power series 4. It’s not like dwarves are that common at the table anyway.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

That’s a fairly ridiculous comparison. The only way I could tell the difference between 6’2 and 6’5 is if they were standing back to back, and then I would have to stand on a box to see. But I can easily tell the difference between 4’ and 5’.

You could do a Goliath that way, and it would make more sense than Tolkien-knock-offs. This show needs its own identity, not to be Rings of Power series 4. It’s not like dwarves are that common at the table anyway.

I personally would not go Dwarf as main cast honestly, or even Gnome or Halfling. I'd go Elf, Human, Aasimar, Tiefling, Goliath &/or Dragonborn.

 

[Parmandur]

That’s a fairly ridiculous comparison. The only way I could tell the difference between 6’2 and 6’5 is if they were standing back to back, and then I would have to stand on a box to see. But I can easily tell the difference between 4’ and 5’.

You could do a Goliath that way, and it would make more sense than Tolkien-knock-offs. This show needs its own identity, not to be Rings of Power series 4. It’s not like dwarves are that common at the table anyway.

Dwarves are like the fourth not common Species in play.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I'm hoping for an Aasimar character.

D&D Dwarves are too tall for Peter, they are 4 to 5 feet tall, medium creatures, it's a quirk of D&D compared to LotR or Snow White.

Gnomes and Halflings on the other hand maybe.

I said not going the Dinklage route.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I personally would not go Dwarf as main cast honestly, or even Gnome or Halfling. I'd go Elf, Human, Aasimar, Tiefling, Goliath &/or Dragonborn.

Dragonborn would obviously require a lot of prosthetics, but if they could get it right it would be worth it for the cool factor.

 

[Oofta]

Dragonborn would obviously require a lot of prosthetics, but if they could get it right it would be worth it for the cool factor.

Should be easy, they can just talk to the people who did Star Trek.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That’s a fairly ridiculous comparison. The only way I could tell the difference between 6’2 and 6’5 is if they were standing back to back, and then I would have to stand on a box to see. But I can easily tell the difference between 4’ and 5’.

Have you actually seen Reacher?

How tall do you think the rest of the Reacher cast is? They're not casting a bunch of 5'1" people to stand around him. They make him look huge compared to average sized people.

Camera angles, tricks with sets and literally having people stand on boxes can do a lot.

Tom Cruise is smaller than most of his co-stars and you rarely have a hint of that in any of his movies.