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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[Parmandur]

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

It's a whole sort of classical Greek style campaign...legend tells it works well with the Theros stuff.

 

[Theory of Games]

If they had only combined "Dorkness Rising" with D&D and the right cast, it would have been a hit

 

[teitan]

Uhh, its 2025 essentially, they are what, decades behind?

They've failed at this so many times.

 

[Parmandur]

They've failed at this so many times.

Not really, WotC only started building their internal video game studios in the past 5 years, and the way they have gone about it has been smart, giving adequate time and resources to people with track records.

In terms of software, internally developed software from WotC has been printing money for years now, wirh Magic Arena.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Not really, WotC only started building their internal video game studios in the past 5 years, and the way they have gone about it has been smart, giving adequate time and resources to people with track records.

In terms of software, internally developed software from WotC has been printing money for years now, wirh Magic Arena.

These 5 studios were not I believe WotCs first attempt at entering the video game market, but WotC may still have learned from their Larian experience and be taking a different approach this time and making a much bigger investment.

I read the surprisingly long sample from Exodus: Archimedes Engine and the setting and depth and writing is amazing in just like 3 chapters, if the game isn't buggy and mechanics are well designed Exodus is going to be the next Mass Effect success story.

 

[Aldarc]

I liked Transformers One but I don’t get how people didn’t find Bumblebee very annoying.

Also, Prime taking point blank shots to the chest with not even a scratch, from a a weapon that blew up a building was kind of stupid IMO

Dude! Have a little perspective and self-awareness! You grew up watching transformers get shot and repaired week after week in the 1980s before finally getting brutally killed in the 1986 movie by the same laser blasts as before.

 

[Zardnaar]

Dude! Have a little perspective and self-awareness! You grew up watching transformers get shot and repaired week after week in the 1980s before finally getting brutally killed in the 1986 movie by the same laser blasts as before.

You're aware that movie is not particularly well regarded right?

 

[Aldarc]

You're aware that movie is not particularly well regarded right?

You're aware that you're wrong, right?

 

[Zardnaar]

You're aware that you're wrong, right?

Made less than it's budget st the box office.

The Transformers: The Movie - Wikipedia

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These days online its reception is mixed.

 

[Aldarc]

Made less than it's budget st the box office.

The Transformers: The Movie - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

These days online its reception is mixed.

So I guess you aren't aware that you're wrong about it not being well-regarded. That's fine.