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.

 

[R_J_K75]

Netflix is also notorious for cancelling a show after one season - even when it's a hit.

This was my first reaction too. I don't watch many shows on streaming platforms, but from the very few I have watched or read about it seems from I can gather that some shows might be planned from the start for short 1-3 season runs.

 

[Parmandur]

Netflix is also notorious for cancelling a show after one season - even when it's a hit.

Not really, Netflix has said repeatedly that they have never canceled a successful show, and I am inclined to believe them. Unlike networks 30 years ago. At least ahows will get a full Season first.

 

[Zaukrie]

This would be cool. I was actually going for a cartoon, but this works. Here's hoping!

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Not really, Netflix has said repeatedly that they have never canceled a successful show, and I am inclined to believe them. Unlike networks 30 years ago. At least ahows will get a full Season first.

That's probably a technicality based on "We didn't 'cancel' it - we just decided not to renew it!"

Now, to be fair, the series that stands out most to my memory on this score is Sandman, which Netflix announced as top-watched when it dropped and then hemmed and hawed about giving it a Season Two, which at the time seemed insane, but now (even with a S2 still on the way) seems like it might have been sensible, given what's come to light re: Neil Gaiman. Of course, they'd have had to have known that at the time...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Now, to be fair, the series that stands out most to my memory on this score is Sandman, which Netflix announced as top-watched when it dropped and then hemmed and hawed about giving it a Season Two, which at the time seemed insane, but now (even with a S2 still on the way) seems like it might have been sensible, given what's come to light re: Neil Gaiman. Of course, they'd have had to have known that at the time...

I suspect we're going to hear that Gaiman has been problematic on sets in the coming months, as Prime started slow-walking before the New Yorker article came out as well.

 

[Parmandur]

That's probably a technicality based on "We didn't 'cancel' it - we just decided not to renew it!"

Now, to be fair, the series that stands out most to my memory on this score is Sandman, which Netflix announced as top-watched when it dropped and then hemmed and hawed about giving it a Season Two, which at the time seemed insane, but now (even with a S2 still on the way) seems like it might have been sensible, given what's come to light re: Neil Gaiman. Of course, they'd have had to have known that at the time...

People liking a show ≠ a show hitting Netflix viewer targets. A show can find an audience without finding a sufficient audience for Netflix to continue spending money on it.

A lot of people loved Sand.an...but it could have been just on the bubble of justifying the cost.

 

[Parmandur]

Is this new? Netflix live action forgotten realms? Dungeons & Dragons Live-Action Series ‘The Forgotten Realms’ In Works At Netflix From Shawn Levy, Drew Crevello & Hasbro

Shaun Levy is a very promising Producer.

 

[Zaukrie]

The level of negativity on this board absolutely sucks. Jeebus.

 

[Knaves Quill]

Potentially exciting, though unless it does amazing ratings-wise it will get Netflix'ed (cancelled prematurely) almost certainly.

 

[Ghost2020]

"No cast has been announced and neither Hasbro nor Netflix has actually confirmed the project. "

Ok. So it's basically a topic during a meeting?