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.

 

[bedir than]

I do. 100%. I said the movie would have done better w/o it in the title. We don't need it in the title. Marvel doesn't put it in their titles. DO NOT put it in the title. Just do a good fantasy movie set in the Realms and move on. I agree with others that starting small with new characters is a good idea. It's cheaper, for one thing. Plus, smaller stories (see GoT) are just better to watch than epic stories (at least to start).

Honor Among Thieves
a D&D Story

 

[Chaltab]

Does no one think that putting D&D in the title will drive people away?

I've seen this sentiment about the movie as well and honestly I'm curious as to where it comes from. I don't think it would be likely to attract people who don't play D&D, but I can't see it being a net negative compared to giving it a generic name.

 

[KYRON45]

I've seen this sentiment about the movie as well and honestly I'm curious as to where it comes from. I don't think it would be likely to attract people who don't play D&D, but I can't see it being a net negative compared to giving it a generic name.

To put it frankly...there are still people who see D&D as a thing that nerds/geeks/dorks play. I'm on an RPG forum in the middle of the day so i'm one of those nerds/geeks/dorks and I had little to no interest in Game of Hats or whatever the D&D movie was called.
Sure i watched it, but if i didn't already know what all the references were it would have just been another fantasy movie and I wouldn't have know it had anything to do with the game aside from the name of the game being in the title.

 

[Oofta]

I do. 100%. I said the movie would have done better w/o it in the title. We don't need it in the title. Marvel doesn't put it in their titles. DO NOT put it in the title. Just do a good fantasy movie set in the Realms and move on. I agree with others that starting small with new characters is a good idea. It's cheaper, for one thing. Plus, smaller stories (see GoT) are just better to watch than epic stories (at least to start).

I think it was okay to have it in the title of the movie, but it should have been reversed with Honor Among Thieves the primary title. Of course what really would have made a difference if it hadn't been released a week before Mario, but timing will always be open for debate.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I've seen this sentiment about the movie as well and honestly I'm curious as to where it comes from. I don't think it would be likely to attract people who don't play D&D, but I can't see it being a net negative compared to giving it a generic name.

I'm now seeing a lot of people outside of geek spaces talking about how much they like DADHAT and how it's a comfort watch for some of them. If the D&D name hurt the movie, it didn't hurt it that badly.

 

[DarkCrisis]

They need to call it Baldur's Gate or Forgotten Realms etc. I wouldn't put D&D in the title.

Actually "Forgotten Realms" sounds best. Though still 90s cheesy by way of Hercules and Xena.

 

[Chaltab]

'Heroes of Baldurs Gate' or 'Neverwinter Knights' or something would probably be best. But if it's set in a more remote part of the Realms then maybe D&D would be better.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

'Heroes of Baldurs Gate' or 'Neverwinter Knights' or something would probably be best. But if it's set in a more remote part of the Realms then maybe D&D would be better.

Heroes of the Island of Winged Monkeys!

 

[TiQuinn]

Does no one think that putting D&D in the title will drive people away?
Obviously people who know D&D will check it out....but is that enough for it to be "successful" by any definition?
Any D&D show/movie/cartoon that doesn't acknowledge the game within the show will just be another "people with swords and British accents" attempt at entertainment.
I wish them luck but in this man's opinion (which isn't worth anything), D&D is not as readily accepted as a mass marketable IP as everyone thinks it is.

“It’s just a funny book movie, it’s not serious.”

 

[KYRON45]

“It’s just a funny book movie, it’s not serious.”

Does its level of seriousness have anything to do with how well it performs financially?
Who are you quoting?