Dungeons & Dragons TV series headed to Paramount Plus

Dungeons & Dragons will be adapted for television in a collaboration between Paramount Plus and Hasbro studio eOne, led by Red Notice According to Deadline, director Rawson Marshall Thurber is the subject of this report. Hasbro’s eOne studio created film and television adaptations from many of its properties. It confirmed the news last February.

Deadline said eOne shopped the show around in November and received interest from “multiple buyers,” but landed on Paramount Plus after “a competitive situation.” The two companies will partner to create the show; Thurber wrote the pilot and will direct the first episode. As Paramount Pictures and eOne co-produced the show, this partnership is logical. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among ThievesThe feature film titled ‘The Movie,’ will premiere on March 31st. It is directed by Jonathan Goldstein with John Francis Daley.

The live-action Dungeons and Dragons Paramount Plus show could be eOne’s “largest-scope TV project ever,” Deadline said, with the potential to kick off a Dungeons and Dragons universe with “scripted and unscripted shows.”

Indeed, Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast have spoken before about bringing the D&D franchise to TV. A couple years back, the company said a TV show was pitched by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad; that live-action show was said to be centered on Drizzt Do’Urden, a character first explored in R.A. Salvatore’s novel The Crystal Shard. He’s since been featured in more than 30 novels and a few video games, including Dungeon & Dragons: Dark Alliance. That project, however, is separate from Paramount Plus’ project.

The Dungeons & Dragons franchise is a massive, sprawling hit with worlds and characters spanning novels, video games, and beyond. The original tabletop game lends itself to creativity as players form their own characters set in the franchise’s world. Play shows have become hugely popular online and offline, as viewers are captivated by the player-created stories.