D&D Movie/TV Is the D&D TV Show Based On Drizzt?

We don't know much about the D&D TV show yet. Here's what we do know.

• The writer is Derek Kolstad (John Wick).
• It will be 6-10 serialized episodes.
• It's a work in process and as yet untitled.
• WotC has just launched a "Summer of Drizzt" PR campaign, which includes an animated short with Benedict Cumberbatch narrating.
• The accompanying press release said "A live action tv show is in development with eOne entertainment and, although not focused on Drizzt, a movie set in the Forgotten Realms starring Chris Pine, Hugh Grant, Rege-Jean Page, Michelle Rodriguez, Sophia Lillis, and Justice Smith is in production." That reads like the former is Drizzt, the latter isn't.
• ComicBook.com asked WotC directly, who said "the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie was "not focused on Drizzt, but there is a TV show in development that might be."
• The TV show was confirmed to be set in the Underdark. The approach is a "tinier sliver" of the world, compared to epic stories like Lord of the Rings. He compares it to Star Wars and Jaws. He mentioned that he's like to go "deeper and deeper into the Underdark".
• See this interview with the writer on Collider.

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D&D Movie/TV - D&D Movie Synopsis Namechecks Harpers, Red Wizards, and Neverwinter [UPDATED - MAYBE NOT?]

A précis of the Dungeons & Dragons movie has appeared as part of its copyright registration, confirming it's set in the Forgotten Realms. The film stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith, Hugh Grant, and Rege-Jean Page. An ex-Harper turned thief escapes from prison with his...

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[MarkB]

If it is Drizzt, I wonder what approach they'll take with the Drow. There's been a lot of distancing from the older portrayals of them recently, so a series that went with anything close to a straight adaptation of Drizzt's origin novels would certainly be a bold move.

 

[Sacrosanct]

If the TV show is set in the Underdark, it seems pretty obvious they would leverage one of the most popular characters from the Underdark to appear at some point.

 

[Count_Zero]

If the TV show is set in the Underdark, it seems pretty obvious they would leverage one of the most popular characters from the Underdark to appear at some point.

They've been getting into some stuff with alternate Drow Cities that aren't evil (artic Drow and jungle Drow), with keeping the Lloth Worshippers evil - so I could see them doing something with tweaking the story to introduce those other Drow populations, maybe.

 

[THEMNGMNT]

Drizzt is basically the John Wick of the Forgotten Realms.

 

[Sithlord]

Drizzt is basically the John Wick of the Forgotten Realms.

Now that would be a great tv series.

 

[MarkB]

Drizzt is basically the John Wick of the Forgotten Realms.

Especially if you kill his panther.

 

[Morrus]

Especially if you kill his panther.

Oh man. If THAT'S the show....

 

[Sithlord]

Especially if you kill his panther.

Okay. We need to pool money together and send you to hasbro Hollywood to be a d&d screenwriter

 

[Morrus]

Okay. We need to pool money together and send you to hasbro Hollywood to be a d&d screenwriter

He just said what everybody has been thinking for the last few months since the writer was revealed!