Just when you think have TV show based onStar Wars , Marvel , DC , The Lord of the Rings , Halo , and about 50 other major franchises was n’t enough , one of the biggest and baddest is finally roll its way into the intermixture . eOne just announced that Rawson Marshall Thurber , the writer and theatre director behind Netflix ’s bang strike Red Notice , will write and direct a pilot for an time of day long drama based on Dungeons & Dragons . The show is being tell on to distributer with the aim of it being the first of a growing franchise .
“ We do n’t desire it to just be one show , ” Michael Lombardo , the President of Global Television for eOne toldDeadline , which broke the write up . “ So we are building out , spring up out a multi - branched advance for television , a phone number of written display and unscripted , and we hope to be taking this out to the marketplace early next year . ” That was in November and , well , here we are . James Grover Thurber is on board .
author have been pitching on the series for some metre , with news show of John Wick co - creator Derek Kolstadbeing among them dropping last year . There ’s no Christian Bible on what Thurber is bringing that sold the company on him , but his evidently good relationship with Netflix and admittance to A - list natural endowment could n’t have hurt .
D&D is coming to TV.Image: Wizards of the Coast
The show is probable to derive on the heels of aDungeons & Dragons movie from Paramountthat lately finished fool away , starring Chris Pine and from Game Night writer - directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley . That ’s schedule for release March 2023 . And if this show is really the starting time of a larger dealership with multiple twirl - offs , you ’d suppose it will somehow tie into , or at least be set , in the same reality as the movie .
Also , it almost go without saying that a Dungeons & Dragons TV show could absolutely work . The problem is the world is so rich and so full of different mythologies and characters , settling on just one matter is frighten away . But if Thurber is on board , that decision has belike be made and now just need to be executed .
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