D&D General Eureka Co-Creator Working on Live-Action Dungeons & Dragons TV Series

[darjr]

Eureka Co-Creator Working on Live-Action Dungeons & Dragons TV Series​

Eureka Co-Creator Working on Live-Action Dungeons & Dragons TV Series

Andrew Cosby, the co-founder of Boom! Studios and the co-creator of the Eureka television series, is now working on a live-action Dungeons & Dragon TV show. Cosby made the announcement during a San Diego Comic-Con digital panel that took place earlier today. “I’ve designed the series to...

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[Dausuul]

Not much detail, but I love the showrunner's attitude, and I'm just generally psyched about a D&D-based TV show. TV--particularly modern TV, with its long-running story arcs connecting semi-independent episodes--is a much more natural fit for D&D than movies ever were.

That doesn't mean it's guaranteed to be good, of course. But I'm eager to see where it goes.

 

[slobster]

So many ways this could go wrong, so many people with completely opposed expectations...

I am not jealous at all of the showrunners here, it's like all the expectations placed on a DM of a new campaign times a million, except your party consists of hundreds of thousands of angry nerds instead of just 5, and you have millions of dollars and your professional future on the line.

But I mean yeah! Could be good! Excited to see what happens!

 

[Hussar]

Very cool. I loved the old Eureka show - and that would be exactly the tone I'd want from a D&D TV show. A bit goofy with lots of "Golly Gosh" mixed with some pretty serious themes and storylines. I look forward to this.

 

[Reynard]

I hope it is a live action reboot of the 80s cartoon but with a cast of diverse millenials and Dungeon Master played by Ed O'Neil.

 

[jdrakeh]

Frank Reynolds as Dungeon Master! (I mostly jest, but I would love to see DeVito in this role.)

 

[doctorbadwolf]

disregard

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Is this just more about the one already announced that is something like 8-10 episodes and set in the Underdark?

 

[Sacrosanct]

Very cool. I loved the old Eureka show - and that would be exactly the tone I'd want from a D&D TV show. A bit goofy with lots of "Golly Gosh" mixed with some pretty serious themes and storylines. I look forward to this.

Same here.

 

[Marc Radle]

wingsandsword said:
So, in other words, WotC is telling longtime D&D fans they aren't welcome in 5e and that decades of learning lore isn't appreciated, in fact it's scorned?

Retroactively rebooting all of D&D lore, in all settings and core lore effective 7 years ago?

Telling Realms fans that the Sword Coast Adventurers Guide is the only canonical Realms book?

Is WotC actively trying to alienate dedicated longtime fans? The last time I felt WotC was doing this was when 4e came out.

Not at all any of that, no.

Huh???
Did this somehow get posted in the wrong thread?