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.

 

[ngenius]

Looking for a studio? After millions of sales by the previous movie "Dungeons and Dragons Honor among thieves," any sequel is obviously a license for easy money being offered to any studio taking up the mantle.

 

[Parmandur]

Apple would be the best streamer to pick it up.

Tend to doubt they would given they are going big into the Cosmere with Brandon Sanderson, probably not in the market for another giant fantasy project that can expand into a "Cinematic Universe"

 

[sevenbastard]

Hopefully the new franchise format means that there is merch and actual game stuff for whatever D&D media happens in the future.

DADHAT had some tie in novels and action figures. I picked up a large black dragon on sale and hung it in my daughter's room.

But WOTC has failed at synergy with table top products linked to its other media. BG3 and DADHAT should have been better supported.

 

[wicked cool]

I feel bad for pine and other actors trying to revive jobs that Hollywood has just lost interest in or the actors themselves

 

[Mistwell]

I want more Xenk.

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He really stole every scene he was in. Yes, I want more Xenk too! Regé-Jean Page was really great in that role.

 

[Mistwell]

I feel bad for pine and other actors trying to revive jobs that Hollywood has just lost interest in or the actors themselves

It is really, really grim right now.

As a gauge of how much Hollywood has taken a dip, my block used to have about 15-30 shoots per year, up until about 2 years ago. Our entire voluntary HOA is funded by these shoots and all block-wide general beautification projects are based on receiving a small amount of funds from them. This year we've had a total of 2 shoots.

Nobody should feel sorry about that. But as a measure of how many projects have dropped off, it's sobering.

Things do seem to be turning around now though. My wife's number of auditions has gone way up in just the past month. So something seems to be happening in the right direction.

 

[Mistwell]

Apple would be the best streamer to pick it up.

Then nobody would see it but it would win tons of critical acclaim!

Seriously. I do not understand how Apple has so many great shows, and such poor marketing. Particularly given Apple made it's name on marketing. At least they seem to have gotten word out about Silo finally.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Then nobody would see it but it would win tons of critical acclaim!

Seriously. I do not understand how Apple has so many great shows, and such poor marketing. Particularly given Apple made it's name on marketing. At least they seem to have gotten word out about Silo finally.

They seem to be great believers in Word of Mouth. And to some degree it seems to work. Apple shows seem to be discussed more than other streamers (apart from Netflix’s latest cancellation).

 

[Scribe]

plus there is an expectation that D&D can perform closer to M:tG which it just can't.

Thats just never going to happen, not without some kind of pivot to a full on lifestyle brand with merch and licensing but I dont think D&D is even close to that level of broad appeal.

Magic still makes silly money.

 

[bedir than]

Then nobody would see it but it would win tons of critical acclaim!

It would also be a case of competing with themselves. They have the Sanderson project as their first big-budget fantasy series. For the most part big-budget fantasy seems to only succeed when it is a solo release on a streamer, or at least significantly offset from other projects on the same platform.

Oddly, for all the craze around sci-fi quality lately, only one genre program made Nielsen's top 20 in H1 2026 -- Stranger Things came in at number 1. This is also part of why I think Hasbro will continue its push to get some D&D media out soon. Stranger Things seasons 4 & 5, and Honor Among Thieves both drove more interest in D&D the game than Baldur's Gate did.

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