The first film of a growing fantasy franchise Dungeons & Dragons, will be written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber
Just when you thought there weren't enough TV programs based on Star Wars, Marvel, DC, The Lord of the Rings, Halo, and around 50 other huge brands, one of the biggest and baddest is finally making its way into the mix. Rawson Marshall Thurber, the writer and filmmaker of Netflix's breakout hit Red Notice, has now revealed that he would write and direct a pilot for an hour-long Dungeons & Dragons drama. The show is currently being pitched to distributors in the hopes of being the first of a growing series.
"We don't want it to be just one program," eOne's President of Global Television Michael Lombardo told Deadline, which broke the story. "So we are building out, constructing out a multi-pronged approach for television, a number of scripted series and unscripted, and we want to take this out to the marketplace early next year," he said in November. Thurber has agreed to participate.
For some time, writers have been pitching on the project, with news of John Wick co-creator Derek Kolstad being among them breaking last year. There's no indication on what Thurber brings to the table that swayed the company's decision, but his clear solid connection with Netflix and access to A-list talent couldn't hurt.
The program is expected to follow a Dungeons & Dragons film from Paramount that recently wrapped production and stars Chris Pine and Game Night writers-directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. This is set to be released in March 2023. And, if this is the beginning of a wider series with several spin-offs, you'd think it would somehow connect into, or at least be situated in, the same world as the film.
It almost goes without saying that a Dungeons & Dragons TV program could be a success. The difficulty is that the world is so diverse and full of many myths and people that deciding on just one is difficult. However, if Thurber is on board, that decision has most certainly already been taken and must now be carried out.
Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD)[2] is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.[3][4][5] It was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR).[5] It has been published by Wizards of the Coast (now a subsidiary of Hasbro) since 1997. The game was derived from miniature wargames, with a variation of the 1971 game Chainmail serving as the initial rule system.[4][6] D&D's publication is commonly recognized as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry.[5][7]
D&D departs from traditional wargaming by allowing each player to create their own character to play instead of a military formation. These characters embark upon imaginary adventures within a fantasy setting. A Dungeon Master (DM) serves as the game's referee and storyteller, while maintaining the setting in which the adventures occur, and playing the role of the inhabitants of the game world. The characters form a party and they interact with the setting's inhabitants and each other. Together they solve dilemmas, engage in battles, explore, and gather treasure and knowledge. In the process, the characters earn experience points (XP) in order to rise in levels, and become increasingly powerful over a series of separate gaming sessions.
The early success of D&D led to a proliferation of similar game systems. Despite the competition, D&D has remained the market leader in the role-playing game industry. In 1977, the game was split into two branches: the relatively rules-light game system of basic Dungeons & Dragons, and the more structured, rules-heavy game system of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as AD&D). AD&D 2nd Edition was published in 1989. In 2000, a new system was released as D&D 3rd edition, continuing the edition numbering from AD&D; a revised version 3.5 was released in June 2003. These 3rd edition rules formed the basis of the d20 System, which is available under the Open Game License (OGL) for use by other publishers. D&D 4th edition was released in June 2008. The 5th edition of D&D, the most recent, was released during the second half of 2014.
In 2004, D&D remained the best-known, and best-selling, role-playing game in the US, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game, and more than US$1 billion in book and equipment sales worldwide. The year 2017 had "the most number of players in its history—12 million to 15 million in North America alone". D&D 5th edition sales "were up 41 percent in 2017 from the year before, and soared another 52 percent in 2018, the game's biggest sales year yet". The game has been supplemented by many pre-made adventures, as well as commercial campaign settings suitable for use by regular gaming groups. D&D is known beyond the game itself for other D&D-branded products, references in popular culture, and some of the controversies that have surrounded it, particularly a moral panic in the 1980s falsely linking it to Satanism and suicide. The game has won multiple awards and has been translated into many languages.
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