Shawn Levy Is Bringing Dungeons & Dragons to Netflix

After failing a saving throw at Paramount+, Hasbro is making an attempt to make a live-action Dungeons & Dragons TV collection work once more–and one of many more and more busiest males in Hollywood helps them to take action.

Deadline experiences that Shawn Levy–nonetheless sizzling off the blockbuster success of Deadpool & Wolverine final yr, and up to date rumors that his long-in-limbo Star Wars film could lightspeed-jump its option to the highest of Lucasfilm’s priorities if it snags Ryan Gosling to star–will government produce The Forgotten Realms for Hasbro at Netflix. WeCrashed‘s Drew Crevello will function co-executive producer with Levy in addition to author and showrunner on the collection, and has already written a pilot for the collection. Because the title suggests, the present will likely be set on the earth of D&D‘s most well-known setting, the fantasy world house to Faerûn and iconic places just like the Sword Coast and the Underdark, and cities like Neverwinter, Baldur’s Gate, Candlekeep, Icewind Dale, and lots of extra.

After the nice and cozy reception to 2023’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves (even when it didn’t precisely gentle the field workplace on hearth), Hasbro made strikes to arrange a live-action D&D collection at Paramount+–introduced simply as D&D writer Wizards of the Coast was on the top of a public relations catastrophe surrounding makes an attempt to interchange the sport’s long-running Open Recreation License. Pink Discover‘s Rawson Marshall Thurber was set to supervise the collection, and was in the end joined by Crevello there too, however the present fell aside when each a shifiting of priorities at Paramount and the sale of Hasbro’s former leisure studio, eOne, to Lionsgate caught it in a number of mortal assaults of alternative.

Unsurprisingly, the shift away from Paramount’s involvement implies that The Forgotten Realms will likely be a very new iteration on the thought, slightly than a improvement of something Crevello had already tried on the studio–together with the lack of any potential hyperlinks to Honor Amongst Thieves, leaving us all nonetheless pining that sooner or later that celebration of stars can collect and enterprise forth once more. For now, this newest roll of the cube may result in Netflix going all-in on a D&D universe of content material, which might match properly with its different Wizards of the Coast challenge, the animated Magic: The Gathering collection from Star Trek: Picard‘s Terry Matalas.

We’ll carry you extra on Netflix’s plans for Dungeons & Dragons as and once we study them.

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