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.

 

[Zanshin]

Mantis is clearly Boo. See the Christmas special.

Surely Mantis is Dynaheir?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Mantis is clearly Boo. See the Christmas special.

Go for the eyes Mantis, arrrrhhhh!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Surely Mantis is Dynaheir?

Nah, she was killed offscreen by Ronan the Irenicus.

 

[Parmandur]

A D&D TV show is never going to hit the top 20 no matter what you rate it.

And again it depends on the IP, some make more money as PG-13, some make more money R-Rated, it depends on the market for the IP.

There is alot more competition fir the PG-13 market.

No, it really doesn't depend, PG-13 stuff makes more across the board, with exceedingly rare exceptions that don't rise as high as the PG-13 or tamer exceptions. Most movies don't make a Billion dollars, but R rated films basically never do except for literally two cases (Joker and Deadpool & Wolverine).

If you wanted to make a "some franchises do better one way or the other" case...D&D is a game marketed for children and families. So, given the choice between more lucrative AND aimed at their audience, versus less lucrative and aimed at a smaller portion of the audience...what do you think Hasbro will do?

And remember, again, PG-13 isn't aimed at children, it's envelope pushing to exclude children, without turning off a lot of people.

 

[Parmandur]

PG-13 horror either sucks or is really just Gothic/Dark fantasy, it makes as much sense as PG-13 porn, so yes Ravenloft should be fore more mature audiences.

Some of the best Horror movies of all time were made under the Hayes code, so weren't even PG-13, let alone R.

 

[Oofta]

Some of the best Horror movies of all time were made under the Hayes code, so weren't even PG-13, let alone R.

Many times things that are implied and left to the imagination are far more terrifying than what we see.

 

[Queer Venger]

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...

Greyhawk I'm less of an expert on, but they want to go gritty.

PG-13 horror either sucks or is really just Gothic/Dark fantasy, it makes as much sense as PG-13 porn, so yes Ravenloft should be fore more mature audiences.

Planescape has alot of really dark planes fill with torture. Arborea has a very sexy times feel to me.

wait, naked goddesses is mature contents?!?!?

 

[Parmandur]

wait, naked goddesses is mature contents?!?!?

"Mature content" is, perhaps, a bit of a misnomer.

 

[OB1]

The biggest successes in media are PG-13. Why should they pursue less success over more success...?

While that's generally true for movies, streaming tends to favor MA rated content. GoT, Sopranos, Squid Games, Sex in the City, The Witcher, Interview with the Vampire, Last of Us... I could go on and on. They should tell the story they want to tell the way they want to tell it and let the rating fall where it may.

Given Levy's work on Deadpool, I imagine the tone will be closer to that than to DaDHAT. It won't severly limit the audience on Netflix.

 

[Reynard]

wait, naked goddesses is mature contents?!?!?

Hasbro is an American company. Naked anything is mature content. Violence is only mature content if you linger on it.