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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[GMMichael]

. . . From I love DnD perspective, I wasn’t expecting a second DnD movie. . .

Had the stars aligned, it wouldn't have been the second.

Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness (TV Movie 2012) ⭐ 4.4 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

1h 30m | R

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(I actually dread the over-loud sound nowadays)

Bring earplugs. I do. If movies were any less loud, you'd hear whining kids, cellphone conversations, chomping of dine-in meals, and probably flatulence (hopefully not too close).

I'm glad they're out of the movie game (no pun, I swear!). But since video games are the new movies, we're still not safe!

 

[CellarHeroes]

I suspect that it also means that such a sequel would have significantly less focus on box checking scenes and plot threads too.

You wouldn't have time wanted on

• Tabaxi are popular so include a creepy scene rescuing one from a fish
• Show that wild magic sorc can fit well with the party so devote a bizarrely significant chunk of the movie to shoehorn in a main character of the story level focus on one overcoming that
• AL were then still trying to force these bizarre bolt on factions into every adventure so devote a bunch to those too
• Oh there needs to be a whole scene for attunement... Also insert this character Im guessing showed up in some fr novel or something into it.
• Oh we want to make a big deal about the cartoon character so there needs to be a scene where it's painfully obvious that it's those kids interacting with the movie characters
• Etc

A movie so forgettable that it took me a while to realize that these bullets were in the movie.

I am happy to see they are getting out of movies. D&D doesn't need to be that restaurant that serves 40 mediocre entrees, instead give me 5 that are really good.

 

[CellarHeroes]

Had the stars aligned, it wouldn't have been the second.

Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness (TV Movie 2012) ⭐ 4.4 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

1h 30m | R

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Book of Vile Darkness is my favorite of all of the D&D movies.

 

[DarkCrisis]

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

 

[payn]

Book of Vile Darkness is my favorite of all of the D&D movies.

It does feel the most true to the table experience of the D&D movies to date.

 

[TiQuinn]

I'm not sure it's quite as negative for a sequel or other D&D movies as you suggest. WotC not financing it also means WotC not getting a share of the revenue, and likely means significantly less WotC interference in the movie being made. I genuinely think it might be easier to make a D&D movie without WotC, who are penny pinchers, capricious and have a lot of weird ideas.

Was absolutely ready to post this. Yes, it means a company like Paramount needs to front the cost, but it also means a company that actually knows how to make movies can do so without interference from a third party that pretends to know how to make movies. This equally applies to video games.

 

[payn]

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

I thought Bumblebee was a fun movie.

 

[CellarHeroes]

It does feel the most true to the table experience of the D&D movies to date.

Thank you...that's what I was looking for in trying to explain why I like it.
Coffee isn't working this morning.

 

[jayoungr]

Turns out the brand didn’t unleash a blockbuster mega hit. It was a good movie, they put enough money into it, but it didn’t connect and and go huge like people here might have hoped.

The fact that it dropped just a few weeks after the OGL fiasco certainly didn't help. It meant that a lot of people who might otherwise have given it positive word-of-mouth publicity either boycotted it or were too ticked off at WotC to want to help them.

 

[MarkB]

I mean, that absolutely sounds like many* cinemas in the 1980s and 1990s, so I don't know when your youth was that that wasn't the case (the 2000s maybe?). In London, which is admittedly a pretty huge city, I basically can pick two of "cheap, comfortable, and clean" (deafening or not remains a roll of the dice - though if it's an arthouse-oriented cinema you almost always escape that).

* = Not nachos in the UK until more recently, but something equally insalubrious.

Yeah, it's certainly dependent upon when you're talking about - my main memory from cinemas in my youth is coming home with the smell of cigarette smoke clinging to me so strongly that I'd have to change my clothes and wash my hair to get rid of it. I can still smell it just recalling that.