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.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

They tried PG-13 with DADHAT, BG3s maturity went much better for them.

Also look at the success of Vex Machina cartoon, which akin to an R-Rating, BG3 would probably closer to NC-17.

HAT has done really well streaming, and guess what? This is a streaming show. It was only at the cinema it go squeezed out.

 

[Parmandur]

They tried PG-13 with DADHAT, BG3s maturity went much better for them.

Also look at the success of Vex Machina cartoon, which akin to an R-Rating, BG3 would probably closer to NC-17.

Yeah, still seriously doubt thst is the way they will go with the brand overall.

Frankly, I think a PG-13 BG3 with similar production values could have been even more successful.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yeah, still seriously doubt thst is the way they will go with the brand overall.

Frankly, I think a PG-13 BG3 with similar production values could have been even more successful.

No, no it wouldn't have been at all, I can't think of any other BG3 fan who believes that at all.

 

[Parmandur]

No, no it wouldn't have been at all, I can't think of any other BG3 fan who believes that at all.

Historically and across mediums, PG-13 material does better than R rated. I haven't bothered with BG3 myself, and I would have if it had a different tone.

 

[TiQuinn]

I’d much rather something in the vein of Honor Amongst Thieves rather than an R-rated show. At the end of the day, the brand is targeting kids as well, and cutting them off from the show would be a huge mistake.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I’d much rather something in the vein of Honor Amongst Thieves rather than an R-rated show. At the end of the day, the brand is targeting kids as well, and cutting them off from the show would be a huge mistake.

The stuff targeted at kids hasn't done that well. Not everything needs to be for kids.

Not saying a later show say set in Eberron can't be for kids.

 

[Parmandur]

The stuff targeted at kids hasn't done that well. Not everything needs to be for kids.

Not saying a later show say set in Eberron can't be for kids.

PG-13 isn't "for kids".

 

[bedir than]

Well, that does make some sense as this is being turned around from a rather long development at Paramount+ before they passed?

Supposedly this treatment started over fresh and left all the Paramount-tied IP on the cutting room floor

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Not everything needs to be for kids.

Not having gratuitous violence, nudity and swearing does not mean it’s aimed at kids. Plenty of adults don’t like that stuff (and plenty of 13 year olds who do).

 

[Parmandur]

Supposedly this treatment started over fresh and left all the Paramount-tied IP on the cutting room floor

Same show runner though, so are we sure about that...?