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]

Have you actually seen Reacher?

How tall do you think the rest of the Reacher cast is? They're not casting a bunch of 5'1" people to stand around him. They make him look huge compared to average sized people.

Camera angles, tricks with sets and literally having people stand on boxes can do a lot.

Tom Cruise is smaller than most of his co-stars and you rarely have a hint of that in any of his movies.

Yes, I’ve seen it. 6’2” is huge. 6’5” is slightly huger. It’s a difference of 4% - far too small to guage by eye.

 

[KentHusker]

Greyhawk? Is Tomb of Horrors particularly R-rated? White Plume Mountain? Most of its elements are fairly kid-friendly. Lord of the Rings is probably its closest analog with Iuz filling in the Sauron role - obviously that series was PG-13.

Try the GDQ modules, easily headed to R rated in the DQ modules. . Or really any of the older original prints of others. The reprints for later editions sanitized a lot.

 

[Zanshin]

Just to say I would be very happy with a series based around the original Baldurs Gate games. David Batista would be perfect as Minsc, add Jaheira, Minscs witch, Protagonist as a Rogue Bhaalspwn and you have a balanced party

 

[Paul Farquhar]

David Batista would be perfect as Minsc

I get a feeling he is getting a bet fed up of being typecast as big dumb oafs. MCU Drax was always Minsc... in Space.

 

[Zanshin]

I get a feeling he is getting a bet fed up of being typecast as big dumb oafs. MCU Drax was always Minsc... in Space.

Probably true, but this is my ideal DND show not his . I like the look of his latest film with Milla Jovovich. Looks very deadlands.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I get a feeling he is getting a bet fed up of being typecast as big dumb oafs. MCU Drax was always Minsc... in Space.

Does that make Rocket or Groot Boo?

 

[TiQuinn]

The reprints for later editions sanitized a lot.

So they made an active choice to make the modules more accessible to kids, you say?

 

[TiQuinn]

If you read more FR novels you realize that BG3 is FAR from an exception. Incest, Rape, Genocide, Abortion, Infantcide, Genital Mutilation, Sex, Drugs, Naked Goddess, Elminister getting more action then Leonardo Dicaprio, torture, horror, brothels, coin lasses & lads, mind control sex, etc...

You can find most of that in a PG-13 movie. Genocide? That’s LotR stuff now. Sex, Drugs, Naked Goddesses, Elminster getting more action than Leo? Sounds like a fantasy version of a James Bond movie. Also, most of this was intimated in the books with lots of fades to black rather than explicitly detailed.

Still see no reason why a company with a product aimed towards kids would want to create a TV show that is not accessible to those same kids. Just does not compute.

 

[Zanshin]

Does that make Rocket or Groot Boo?

I would go for Groot for the space hamster

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I would go for Groot for the space hamster

Mantis is clearly Boo. See the Christmas special.