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.

 

[sevenbastard]

It is really, really grim right now.

We left LA in 2019, but our friends who are still there in the industry are struggling.

My GF did background, stand in, some PA work, and a few speaking parts here and there but we left at the right time.

 

[Mistwell]

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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House of the Dragon is #2 right now in overall and acquired properties. Silo #7 in originals.

 

[bedir than]

House of the Dragon is #2 right now in overall and acquired properties. Silo #7 in originals.

weeklies, right?

 

[Mistwell]

weeklies, right?

Yes, but I think both will rank for the quarter.

 

[Zardnaar]

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.

Its more like pay us money and take a huge gamble and lose 100 million or so at the box office and hope the back end covers it.

Hasbro put up 75 million and wrote down a 25 million loss. The studio probably ate a similar amount and the marketing budget as well.

Hasbro took another large dunking and exited the movie business selling up at another large loss.

I wouldn't claim you wont get a sequel but I wouldn't hold your breath until it gets released.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I’m happy to see they’re still trying to make a sequel for this, especially with the same writers and directors.

I was super negative about the casting announcements for the first movie and went into the movie expecting to be disappointed. Instead I really enjoyed the movie and felt it was way better than I even hoped it might be.

My wife and kids aren’t RPG players and they all enjoyed it too.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

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

Should we wait for Jarnathan?

But I had the exact same low expectations going in and it blew those away for me. It had tonnes of Easter eggs for D&D and Forgotten Realms fans, but those with zero knowledge could equally enjoy the movie.

 

[bedir than]

Hasbro took another large dunking and exited the movie business selling up at another large loss.

Except they made money on the eOne purchase and latter sale, because they still hold the rights to Peppa Pig, one of their most successful franchises ever.

Also, they never left the entertainment business. They made tens of millions on entertainment last year.

They have "forty to fifty" entertainment projects in development per Cocks, who has said he wants to keep those quieter until they are close because fans are over-reactive to cancellations in the modern era.

 

[Zardnaar]

Except they made money on the eOne purchase and latter sale, because they still hold the rights to Peppa Pig, one of their most successful franchises ever.

Also, they never left the entertainment business. They made tens of millions on entertainment last year.

They have "forty to fifty" entertainment projects in development per Cocks, who has said he wants to keep those quieter until they are close because fans are over-reactive to cancellations in the modern era.

Remains to be seen how many will actually come to fruition.

Corporations make all these announcements essentially to pump the share price.

Very prematurely as it turns out.

 

[Abstruse]

But I had the exact same low expectations going in and it blew those away for me. It had tonnes of Easter eggs for D&D and Forgotten Realms fans, but those with zero knowledge could equally enjoy the movie.

My favorite example of that is the Intellect Devourers. "These creatures are especially fond of feeding on those with high intelligence." skitters past them all without stopping

Non-D&D Audience Member: Ha! It's funny because the monsters think they're too dumb to eat!

D&D Players: Ha! It's funny because a Barbarian, Bard, Druid, Paladin, and Sorcerer would all dump Int!

The one everyone loved as a teaser before release was the "I get five questions, right?" "Yes." "I wasn't talking to you, alright?" "Okay." "That didn't count, did it?" "Yes." scene because it's just a good comedy routine for casual viewers but every D&D player is pulling the Leo Pointing at the Screen meme because we've all had that EXACT situation happen.

Same exact joke hits in two completely different ways and the film is FILLED with them.