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.

 

[Gradine]

Many of the outdoor scenes in the TV show Psych were filmed in the Vancouver area, but supposed to be my current hometown of Santa Barbara CA, about 160km north of Los Angeles. There was a forsest scene once, which is fine, there is in fact a forest here. But waaaay to many pine trees, clouds, and rain drops.

If there's one thing I learned from Psych, it's that Santa Barbara has tons of murder.

 

[Gradine]

Frozen is a D&D movie. It’s just that Disney are too cheap to pay for the licence.

We've already established that the best D&D movies are the Fast & Furious films

 

[Parmandur]

Let’s dump the kids in front of the TV.

Children looooooooove Grey's Anatomy.

 

[Parmandur]

If there's one thing I learned from Psych, it's that Santa Barbara has tons of murder.

It ain't Cabot Cove, ME, the murder capital of the multiverse.

 

[Parmandur]

“The Super Mario Bros. Movie”

Opening up Honor Among Thieves against thst was so very, very stupid.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Here the trick is to make parents to believe D&D is family friendly and underage D&D is for mature audiences.

The first season should have got a closed end, or two alternate endings according if it will be renewed.

The experience has showed the recipe that works better is fantasy with comedy, nor too focused to comedy neither too serious.

* Would Netflix dare to an animated pilot episode of Gamma World?

 

[bedir than]

Opening up Honor Among Thieves against thst was so very, very stupid.

2023 didn't really have an open multiweek period for any film. The glut of unreleased projects that were supposed to be in 2022 made the calendar essentially impossible to work.
Like the switch with Scream VI that Honor Among Thieves made pretty late. That would have give D&D a week before John Wick.

 

[Oofta]

It ain't Cabot Cove, ME, the murder capital of the multiverse.

Nah, it's just that Angela was a serial killer that was really good at framing other people.

 

[Warren]

Frozen is a D&D movie. It’s just that Disney are too cheap to pay for the licence.

It's no Onward, now that's a D&D movie. Really good, just released at the wrong time (COVID).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Children looooooooove Grey's Anatomy.

Aside from the kids shows, everything else with long viewing times is old. Which means people have seen them before - they are in effect, reruns. People are using them as moving wallpaper whist they are doing something else. Comfortable, familiar, and requiring no concentration.

Now, no one signs up to a streaming service, in order to watch decades old reruns. But it might make them a little more reluctant to cancel when they have watched the thing they did sign up for.