D&D Movie/TV Hasbro Getting Out Of The Movie Business

While Hasbro is forging ahead with its own Dungeons & Dragons video game, following the massive success of Baldur's Gate 3, the future of its film involvement is less rosy. In an article with Bloomberg featuring Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks, it was revealed that the company won't be co-financing future movies following the underperformance of Honor Among Thieves and Transformers One.

The focus is moving towards video games. Cocks said to Bloomberg, "We want to reach fans where they want to play, and increasingly that is through digital expressions of their favorite brands".

Sony and Lions Gate will continue to make movies based on Hasbro properties, but Hasbro won't be involved in the financing.

Hasbro Confirms New Unannounced Dungeons & Dragons Video Game in Development

Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks has confirmed that an in-house studio is developing an unannounced Dungeons & Dragons video game. In a feature posted today on Bloomberg News, Cocks stated that Hasbro was actively developing a Dungeons & Dragons video game via one of its in-house studios. No further...

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[ersatzphil]

I still say a good D&D movie needs to have people playing D&D in it. I will die on this hill...likely cold and alone.
But by all means keep leaving the gaming part out of the script.

Hear me out: the muppets sit down to play D&D together. Then, cut to live action of the PCs, but keep the voice actors the same - Miss Piggy voices Jason Momoa as the barbarian.

Edit: “The Muppets Present: Lost Mine of Phandelver”. If only Mr. Henson was alive to portray the DM.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Hear me out: the muppets sit down to play D&D together. Then, cut to live action of the PCs, but keep the voice actors the same - Miss Piggy voices Jason Momoa as the barbarian.

I'd watch

 

[KYRON45]

Hear me out: the muppets sit down to play D&D together. Then, cut to live action of the PCs, but keep the voice actors the same - Miss Piggy voices Jason Momoa as the barbarian.

It would still do better than what we got.

 

[payn]

It would still do better than what we got.

 

[MNblockhead]

Same here. Not to sound like a bitter old man, but I relish the movie theatre experience of my youth. Today, my local chain cinema is expensive, dirty, noisy, stinks of nachos, and appears to want to randomly blow my ear drums out of my skull, depending on the film.

Huh. Opposite for me. The movie theaters now have reserved seating, large reclining chairs, some deliver food to your seats. But I still don't like theaters. Not because of the theaters but the other audience members and the cost.

 

[EthanSental]

I haven’t read every post but talking about hasbro games, I was filing a missing DMG claim today and saw the game Exodus (space game) prominently displayed on the wizard’s page. First I had heard of it.

 

[Parmandur]

I haven’t read every post but talking about hasbro games, I was filing a missing DMG claim today and saw the game Exodus (space game) prominently displayed on the wizard’s page. First I had heard of it.

I'm about 400 pages into the novel, The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton and itnis a major sci-fi headgrip. The game is being made by one of the main guys behind Baldur's Gate (original 2), Dragon Age and Mass Effect amd the studio he has built for WotC in Austin.

 

[EthanSental]

That’s the guy/team that did that Minsc and boo villainy book on the dmguild?

 

[Parmandur]

That’s the guy/team that did that Minsc and boo villainy book on the dmguild?

Yup, here is James Ohlen's RPGbibliography on DriveThru, he started off doing third psrty with Odysseyof the Dragon Lords, rhen WotC hired him to make video games and he started publishing on DMsGuild:

And his ludography:

 

[EthanSental]

Cool, I have all their 5e related stuff. Haven’t bought the Odyssey items yet….thanks for the list!