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.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yeah, it kept it true to the tenor of their played game...but it doesn't really add much.

It's added humour and more fun, do it adds alot. Maturity doesn't always mean serious, you can deal with maturity subject matter with humour.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

It's added humour and more fun, do it adds alot.

Humour is very subjective. I didn’t find it funny.

Maturity doesn't always mean serious, you can deal with maturity subject matter with humour.

Something doesn’t need to be crude to be funny.

 

[Parmandur]

It's added humour and more fun, do it adds alot. Maturity doesn't always mean serious, you can deal with maturity subject matter with humour.

Honestly, most of it could be cut and nothing would even change. All it does is present a barrier to entry for some.

 

[Parmandur]

Humour is very subjective. I didn’t find it funny.

Something doesn’t need to be crude to be funny.

I did actually find it pretty funny, but that's because of my arrested adolescent sense of humor, certainly "maturity" didn't.enter into the equation.

 

[Zaukrie]

That's what I call "for imMature Audiences". For example, I enjoyed Vox Machina (the cartoon) in spite of its lowbrow "maturity", not because of it. I'd have liked it more without most of that stuff.

We haven't even watched season 2 yet because the humor isn't for us. I'll watch it someday, but it bores me to tears.

 

[Oofta]

To me maturity should center around the content of the story, not graphic depictions of sex or violence. I don't have a problem with either one of those and in the right show it may make sense. That also doesn't mean it needs to be grim dark, I just think that HAT got pretty close as far as tone.

On the other hand, I'd rather see a bunch of adventurers just starting out and not facing city-ending threats because that to me would feel more like a campaign as the seasons progress and they grow in power.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I did actually find it pretty funny, but that's because of my arrested adolescent sense of humor, certainly "maturity" didn't.enter into the equation.

My humour isn’t mature, it’s just silly.

 

[KYRON45]

Does no one think that putting D&D in the title will drive people away?
Obviously people who know D&D will check it out....but is that enough for it to be "successful" by any definition?
Any D&D show/movie/cartoon that doesn't acknowledge the game within the show will just be another "people with swords and British accents" attempt at entertainment.
I wish them luck but in this man's opinion (which isn't worth anything), D&D is not as readily accepted as a mass marketable IP as everyone thinks it is.

 

[Zaukrie]

Does no one think that putting D&D in the title will drive people away?
Obviously people who know D&D will check it out....but is that enough for it to be "successful" by any definition?
Any D&D show/movie/cartoon that doesn't acknowledge the game within the show will just be another "people with swords and British accents" attempt at entertainment.
I wish them luck but in this man's opinion (which isn't worth anything), D&D is not as readily accepted as a mass marketable IP as everyone thinks it is.

I do. 100%. I said the movie would have done better w/o it in the title. We don't need it in the title. Marvel doesn't put it in their titles. DO NOT put it in the title. Just do a good fantasy movie set in the Realms and move on. I agree with others that starting small with new characters is a good idea. It's cheaper, for one thing. Plus, smaller stories (see GoT) are just better to watch than epic stories (at least to start).

 

[Mistwell]

Romanticy was popular but peaked and is now on the downswing, and book publishers have started to shift to somewhat more traditional fantasy in their announcements. This does not mean Netflix is up on their publication trends though, as it's a rather recent shift and Romanticy dominated for many years.