A Dungeons & Dragons TV Show Is Coming From Red Notice Director

Just whenever you thought having TV reveals based mostly on Star Wars, Marvel, DC, The Lord of the Rings, Halo, and about 50 different main franchises wasn’t sufficient, one of many greatest and baddest is lastly rolling its manner into the combination. eOne simply introduced that Rawson Marshall Thurber, the author and director behind Netflix’s smash hit Red Notice, will write and direct a pilot for an hour lengthy drama based mostly on Dungeons & Dragons. The present is being shopped to distributors with the goal of it being the primary of a rising franchise.

“We don’t want it to just be one show,” Michael Lombardo, the President of Global Television for eOne informed Deadline, which broke the story. “So we are building out, developing out a multi-pronged approach for television, a number of scripted shows and unscripted, and we hope to be taking this out to the marketplace early next year.” That was in November and, effectively, right here we’re. Thurber is on board.

Writers have been pitching on the collection for some time, with information of John Wick co-creator Derek Kolstad being amongst them dropping final yr. There’s no phrase on what Thurber is bringing that bought the corporate on him, however his clearly good relationship with Netflix and entry to A-list expertise couldn’t have damage.

The present is more likely to come on the heels of a Dungeons & Dragons film from Paramount that just lately completed taking pictures, starring Chris Pine and from Game Night writer-administrators Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. That’s scheduled for launch March 2023. And if this present is actually the beginning of a bigger franchise with a number of spin-offs, you’d think about it is going to by some means tie into, or not less than be set, in the identical world because the film.

Also, it nearly goes with out saying {that a} Dungeons & Dragons TV present might completely work. The drawback is the world is so wealthy and so full of various mythologies and characters, deciding on only one factor is daunting. But if Thurber is on board, that call has possible be made and now simply have to be executed.

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