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.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Levy's last 3 movies have been with Ryan Reynolds. Just saying. And yeah it should be filmed here in Vancouver where Ryan is from.

Ryan Reynolds is opening up Canada's largest TV studio in Markham Ontario.

1.2 million square feet. I think this is VERY likely we're the TV series will end up being shot and I do think Ryan Reynolds will be involved in some capcity.

That being said some scenes could still ge shot in Vancouver, I mean BC is just absolutely gorgeous!

Ryan Reynolds Is Building Canada’s Largest Film And TV Studio In Markham - IMDb

 

[Azzy]

I think the important question is this: Will every member of the cast, for reasons passing understanding and regardless of various ancestries and backgrounds all have a fake British accent?!?!

I mean really people...ask the right questions!!!

Only the villains.

 

[TiQuinn]

Only the villains.

 

[Queer Venger]

It's a really good question long-term. The answer so far seems to be: That depends - is the monster Dead? (Then yes, otherwise no.)

A sickeningly large number of our "heroes" are actually monsters, and the rest are a mixed bag, like the rest of us. The mixed bag part is tricky, because it's always hard to tell what it means, in particular with celebrities. Being rude to a fan is one thing - assaulting them is another. I don't have any answers.

Im with you; seems a good rule is not to put human beings on pedestals, even if they are brilliant creators. But maybe it's human to do so.

 

[Queer Venger]

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

I hope so!! The dream must never die, even if you have to take a gig doing a reality tv show to pay the bills.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hahaha. Such a great show!

For certain definitions of "great."

 

[jerryrice4949]

Netflix has confirmed that they are not doing a season 3 for Sandman.

Not surprised. Sandman was terrible. Acting and writing were so poor.

 

[Parmandur]

Ryan Reynolds is opening up Canada's largest TV studio in Markham Ontario.

1.2 million square feet. I think this is VERY likely we're the TV series will end up being shot and I do think Ryan Reynolds will be involved in some capcity.

That being said some scenes could still ge shot in Vancouver, I mean BC is just absolutely gorgeous!

Ryan Reynolds Is Building Canada’s Largest Film And TV Studio In Markham - IMDb

OK, if Shaun Levy and Ryan Reynolds.make.a.gonzo Canadian Forgotten Realms show in Omtruo, that would be very full circle, and make an Ed Greenwood cameo easy enough...

 

[Zardnaar]

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

Average rainfall is 1200m approx. Double tgay up high.

We have rain forest here It's 3000mm of rain 300 days a year and can be double that on places.

Outside tropics it's rare. Here, PNW, narrow strip in south America. Generally you need mountains which creates a rainshadow effect.

 

[Audiomancer]

They won't do this, of course, but it occurs to me that one way to keep the budget down may be to old "old school" and make this show about a town and a dungeon and the collection of idiots that risk their life delving in search of loot (and revenge or love or whatever).

For the proper old-school experience, they would need to have at least one main character die every episode, and be replaced by a new character.

Bonus points any time the replacement is the same actor, in the same costume (with a different hat) saying “I’m here to avenge my brother!”