D&D Movie/TV Netflix Planning Forgotten Realms D&D TV Show With Stranger Things Producer

A Dungeons & Dragons TV show set in the Forgotten Realms is in development at Netflix. Deadline reports that the new TV series, titled The Forgotten Realms, is being produced by Shawn Levy, with Drew Crevello serving as writer and showrunner. No timeframe was given for the show's release. No cast has been announced and neither Hasbro nor Netflix has actually confirmed the project. If successful, the series could launch a wider D&D cinematic universe, long a goal for Hasbro.

Hasbro has tried unsuccessfully to get Dungeons & Dragons to television for several years. At one point, Paramount+ had a TV show in development with Rawson Marshall Thurber writing the pilot. While the project was ultimately scrapped, Crevello (who was set to be showrunner on that version of the show) stayed on the project and redeveloped it with a new concept. According to Deadline, this project is not tied to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, although the movie is set to debut on Netflix this month and is also set in the Forgotten Realms.

Dungeons & Dragons was also featured in an episode of Secret Level, an animated series focused on various game franchises that aired on Amazon Prime. Legendary, meanwhile, is adapting Hasbro's other major fantasy franchise Magic: The Gathering into a movie and TV project.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Ireland would be rainforest if left to nature, at least where it would not be a bog.

Good point!

EDIT: Alright, I looked it up. Average Rainfall in Vancouver is 1189mm and in Ireland (I find it weird to compare a city to a whole large island, but I don't know where is wetter or not-so wet in Ireland, so close enough) it is 1230mm. So Ireland "wins"! (Though not by much!)

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Good point!

EDIT: Alright, I looked it up. Average Rainfall in Vancouver is 1189mm and in Ireland (I find it weird to compare a city to a whole large island, but I don't know where is wetter or not-so wet in Ireland, so close enough) it is 1230mm. So Ireland "wins"! (Though not by much!)

Dingle, Oporto and Bergen were, I was informed in geography class 50 odd year ago among the 3 wettest towns in Europe. I am not sure that, it is still true as rainfall may have shifted in the meantime. But annual rainfall in Dingle is 1489mm. The west is wetter in general than the east with the southeast being the driest area and the north west being wetter but Dingle is among the first place with rising ground to meet the warm water laden winds from the more southerly portions of the Atlantic.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I’ve been to Bergen. It was sunny.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Dingle, Oporto and Bergen were, I was informed in geography class 50 odd year ago among the 3 wettest towns in Europe. I am not sure that, it is still true as rainfall may have shifted in the meantime. But annual rainfall in Dingle is 1489mm. The west is wetter in general than the east with the southeast being the driest area and the north west being wetter but Dingle is among the first place with rising ground to meet the warm water laden winds from the more southerly portions of the Atlantic.

Your Dingle is WET. (That sounds needlessly crude!)

 

[Warren]

Even in Vancouver the amount can vary significantly. North Vancouver cited below is a close suburb.

"The estimated annual rainfall of Vancouver is 146 cm. Closer to the mountains, North Vancouver gets an estimated average rainfall of 252 cm. Farther west, the estimated annual rainfall of Tofino, B.C. is 327 cm."

 

[Kobold Avenger]

One time I tried to compare how much it rains in the UK compared to Vancouver, it apparently rains less in London than in Vancouver, but in many parts of Scotland it rains more than Vancouver.

 

[Warren]

It all depends on the type of rain too. Vancouver gets the reputation because it is often overcast, cloudy, or lightly raining. Places that get more actual water hitting the ground might also get more sunny days because they are mixes of powerful rain storms and clear days.

Ironically Vancouver can get very dry in the summer, with no rain for several weeks or longer.

 

[Reynard]

The weather discussion really underscores how little information we have to go on.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

One time I tried to compare how much it rains in the UK compared to Vancouver, it apparently rains less in London than in Vancouver, but in many parts of Scotland it rains more than Vancouver.

That’s because of the same reason that (the west of) Ireland is so wet. The North Atlantic Drift (extension of the Gulf Stream) carries warm wet air past the west coast of Ireland and Scotland. There are a couple of mini-tropical rainforests in on the west coast of Scotland at a latitude of 47 degrees north.

 

[TiQuinn]

If The Forgotten Realms succeeds, proof of concept if you will, it makes more likely someone will take Joe up on his offer.

As much as I get where he was coming from, TSR and WotC really did Dragonlance dirty to the point that they almost have to build that setting up “from scratch.” It could’ve been, no, it WAS their most recognizable setting at one point and certainly their most cinematic one, but it came about in a time where anything fantasy related was automatically considered C-level material. This is where I feel WotC/Hasbro truly sucks. They are terrible at nurturing what they’ve got.