D&D Movie/TV Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves sequel script finished, looking for studio

On an appearance on the Discourse Podcast from Playlist, writer/directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein stated they have finished he script to a sequel to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

“I think Hasbro is a big believer in it, and if they can figure out a studio partner to make it work, they’ll want to proceed,” Goldstein said.

The pair also addressed the underperformance of the film, which made $208 million global box office against a $150 million budget.

“It was very much a product of not-so-great timing when the first movie came out. It came out four days before the Super Mario movie, which broke records,” Daley said. “It came out a month after Wizards of the Coast changed the official gaming license, prompting many D&D fans to boycott the game, and I don’t think the marketing did enough to tell people who weren’t already fans that this movie might be for them. Yeah, so it was a perfect storm of all of those elements, and we’ll see.

“I mean, look, it’s something that is near and dear to our hearts in that we loved making the first one. We fell in love with the characters, and there’s so much potential in a sequel because the first act isn’t filled with exposition or introduction to this family that we’ve already become accustomed to. So you can kind of launch right into the story, which is really nice.”

As we all know, there always seems to be some mitigating situation making it difficult to get together for a second session.

This comes following news of a Ravenloft television series from Netflix earlier this week.

 

[Hurin70]

I hope this is one of those movies that got enough of a cult following after a disappointing release that someone decides to take a second chance on it, like for example Blade Runner.

It was a ton of fun.

 

[CF07]

I didn't enter into it with good expectations but it was surprisingly well-done. Quite fun. Poor Jarnathan....

 

[Lazybones]

I don't like how these revenue estimates always seem to assume that the movie made nothing in DVD/streaming sales. I've seen the movie on multiple streaming platforms, and I believe it's on Netflix now. It seems like it did quite well after the theatrical release.

Anyway, loved the movie, hope the sequel finds a home.

 

[Mistwell]

I don't like how these revenue estimates always seem to assume that the movie made nothing in DVD/streaming sales. I've seen the movie on multiple streaming platforms, and I believe it's on Netflix now. It seems like it did quite well after the theatrical release.

Anyway, loved the movie, hope the sequel finds a home.

It did make a fair bit on streaming, but we won't see those numbers. It's unclear how much for Video On Demand other than we know it ranked #1 for both digital rental and purchase, but they don't announced those numbers to the public. I have seen an estimate that it was about $18.5M. In addition it made about $8.5M in physical media sales.

For filming tax incentives, credits, grants, reimbursements and off-sets we know it received £1.6 million from Northern Ireland, and a tax credit of 25% of eligible UK production expenditure, subject to an effective ceiling of about 20% of the film’s total qualifying core expenditure. They had a £43million expenditure so×25%≈£10.75million (about $14.5M USD). They also got around £10.75 million for filming at Alnwick Castle and elsewhere in England. It then had a 25% to 35% Icelandic reimbursement, and a Canadian reimbursement.

All told, their credits, grants, reimbursements, etc. probably total around $20M.

 

[KYRON45]

Isn't this like saying....I found a job now they just have to hire me?

 

[Parmandur]

It did make a fair bit on streaming, but we won't see those numbers. It's unclear how much for Video On Demand other than we know it ranked #1 for both digital rental and purchase, but they don't announced those numbers to the public. I have seen an estimate that it was about $18.5M. In addition it made about $8.5M in physical media sales.

For filming tax incentives, credits, grants, reimbursements and off-sets we know it received £1.6 million from Northern Ireland, and a tax credit of 25% of eligible UK production expenditure, subject to an effective ceiling of about 20% of the film’s total qualifying core expenditure. They had a £43million expenditure so×25%≈£10.75million (about $14.5M USD). They also got around £10.75 million for filming at Alnwick Castle and elsewhere in England. It then had a 25% to 35% Icelandic reimbursement, and a Canadian reimbursement.

All told, their credits, grants, reimbursements, etc. probably total around $20M.

Yeah, no heads rolled over this, but clearly it was a disappointment for Paramount.

I'm fairly happy with fondly rememberes cult classic, but I hope they can get a proper sequel and find the audience.

 

[bedir than]

Yeah, no heads rolled over this, but clearly it was a disappointment for Paramount.

I'm fairly happy with fondly rememberes cult classic, but I hope they can get a proper sequel and find the audience.

It should be remembered that Paramount intentionally downsized all production across the board while positioning themselves for a takeover. They had a year with less than ten released films because they didn't want to turn a profit -- Redstone wanted the brand damaged enough it was purchased.

The people who turned down the sequel aren't there any more. The new ownership is working with everyone who "failed" when making Honor Among Thieves.

 

[Zardnaar]

I don't like how these revenue estimates always seem to assume that the movie made nothing in DVD/streaming sales. I've seen the movie on multiple streaming platforms, and I believe it's on Netflix now. It seems like it did quite well after the theatrical release.

Anyway, loved the movie, hope the sequel finds a home.

Its because no one has access to those figures.

We have Hollywood types saying its not much as a general rule. Matt Damon fir example said its killed off mid race movies tgat was his bread and butter.

You have blockbuster with 150 million budgets (100 million is cheap) and low budget horror movies.

VoD provides a trickle buy its no where close to the old DVD/VHS.

Streaming also seems to be undermining movies. Apparently a theatrical release is almost always good for a movies streaming reception however.

Masters of the Universe did well on streaming and it flopped at box office.

If studio and streamer (eg Disney).are the same thry can make the numbers look better via subscription money.

 

[bedir than]

Masters of the Universe did well on streaming

To compare it to D&D: Honor Among Thieves, one was number 1 on Prime for months and the other is 5th.

D&D was the one that did better while Prime had it. Honor Among Thieves also but up big numbers on Netflix and of course on Paramount it was in the top 10 for 18 months.

 

[VashVet]

I want more Xenk.