Netflix Sets Live-Action “Dungeons & Dragons” Series

Netflix has reportedly begun development of “The Forgotten Realms,” a live-action TV series set within the “Dungeons & Dragons” universe.

Producer Shawn Levy (“Stranger Things”) and writer-showrunner Drew Crevello (“WeCrashed”) are spearheading the project which is being made in co-operation with Hasbro Entertainment.

Crevello wrote the pilot and serves as showrunner; he will executive produce the potential series with Levy and Dan Levine.

The Forgotten Realms is one of the most popular D&D settings, a fantasy world setting of strange lands, dangerous creatures, and mighty deities where magic and supernatural phenomena are quite real. It is also home to some of the brand’s most famous characters and popular adventures.

Rawson Marshall Thurber (“Red Notice”) oversaw an earlier incarnation of the project which was initiallu at Paramount+ in early 2023 with a straight-to-series order and eOne co-producing alongside Paramount Pictures.

That project fell apart due to a strategy shift at Paramount+ and ownership change at eOne which has since been acquired by Lionsgate.

Hasbro Entertainment is now in charge and the series was redeveloped with a brand new concept not related to the either the earlier version at Paramount+ or the recent “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” film which scored good notices but wasn’t a financial success.

The new incarnation drew the interest of Levy where it was pitched and is now in development at Netflix with the hope of it potentially launching a D&D universe.

Source: Deadline

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