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.

 

[Chaltab]

I just hope they go live action. I won't watch animated stuff these days with very rare exception. Particularly not mature adult animated.

Please say Arcane is one of those exceptions it's sooo good.

 

[Zardnaar]

I'm fine with both but what I don't like is dumb edgelord 'maturity' like the 3E Book of Vile Darkness or a lot of the expanded 4E lore about evil deities.

No one's forcing you to buy it. The D&D cycle if you want to call it that. Casuals come and go but if you hang around mid to long term you get older.

5E player base heavily in their 20s. If you're not a casual you're probably 5 to 10 years older. More of the sane PG13 or less is eventually going to get boring.

To the 5E fan base has graduated college or entering their 30s. BG3 comes along and rather than offending anyone it blows up despite/or because of its sexu party time. And slavery, murder, and mind control, torture.

All that badwrongfun stuff people think will offend people.

Sex and violence always popular.

 

[Chaltab]

No one's forcing you to buy it. The D&D cycle if you want to call it that. Casuals come and go but if you hang around mid to long term you get older.

5E player base heavily in their 20s. If you're not a casual you're probably 5 to 10 years older. More of the sane PG13 or less is eventually going to get boring.

To the 5E fan base has graduated college or entering their 30s. BG3 comes along and rather than offending anyone it blows up despite/or because of its sexu party time. And slavery, murder, and mind control, torture.

All that badwrongfun stuff people think will offend people.

Sex and violence always popular.

Man, I'm 37 and I don't care if the Netflix D&D show is MA or not. Was this meant to be directed at someone else?

 

[Mistwell]

Please say Arcane is one of those exceptions it's sooo good.

Nope. Not interested.

 

[Zardnaar]

Man, I'm 37 and I don't care if the Netflix D&D show is MA or not. Was this meant to be directed at someone else?

Pointing out that if they made a BoVD 2.0 no one's forcing you to buy it.

It's a meh book anyway. I have been rereading a lot of 3.5 books. Very different vibe.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I just hope they go live action. I won't watch animated stuff these days with very rare exception. Particularly not mature adult animated.

It's said to be live action.

 

[Parmandur]

Yes, but
1. The industry has changed a lot since then and M-rated games tend to be some of the biggest sellers. GTA5 is like the best selling anything in the entertainment industry ever.

Minecraft is better selling than GTA, by a lot, and is E10. The biggest franchise is Pokemon.

2. The story of BG3 couldn't really be told at modern graphical fidelity at a T-rating. Ceremorphosis alone is a bit much fPokémon.

Arguable. I've seen some gnarly stuff in T.

Even so you have the choice to tone down the mature content in the options.

That is good to know, makes it more likely I may pick it up eventually on sale.

 

[Parmandur]

I just hope they go live action. I won't watch animated stuff these days with very rare exception. Particularly not mature adult animated.

OK, even if animated stuff is not your usual jam...I would recommend Delicious in Dungeon on Netflix. One of the best pieces of D&Dinspired media (by way of Wizardry).

 

[Parmandur]

Please say Arcane is one of those exceptions it's sooo good.

My wife and I watched a few episodes, it was well done but too grimdark for our personal tastes.

 

[Parmandur]

The first season which was the most true to the books as I understand it was successful, and Netflix is trying to get back to that.

Had they listened to Henry Caville and Beau DeMayo it'd be doing massively better. Witchers loss is Warhammers gain.

Yeah, I know there is adaptation controversy, but I haven't herd that viewership really suffered.