‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Live-Action Series Ordered By Paramount+ From Rawson Marshall Thurber, eOne & Paramount Pictures - Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has fixed an eight-episode, straight-to-series bid to an adaptation of Hasbro’s wildly fashionable Dungeons & Dragons phantasy role-playing crippled franchise. Red Notice filmmaker Rawson Marshall Thurber wrote the aviator publication and is acceptable to nonstop the archetypal occurrence of the bid which volition beryllium a co-production betwixt eOne and Paramount Pictures.

eOne, the pb studio, took the task retired successful November, garnering involvement from aggregate buyers, with Paramount+ yet landing the amusement successful a competitory situation. eOne and Paramount Pictures are partnering connected the Dungeons & Dragons series aft besides co-producing and co-financing the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie directed by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley, which premieres March 31.

At Paramount+, the Dungeons & Dragons bid volition articulation Halo, the video crippled adaptation, which is 1 of the streamer’s astir fashionable originals. Over the past mates of years, determination has been a resurgence successful bringing gaming titles to television, and this is the latest example.

Adapting Dungeons & Dragons for tv has been a large absorption for eOne nether President of Global Television Michael Lombardo following the company’s 2019 acquisition by Hasbro. The live-action bid has been tipped to beryllium the studio’s largest-scope TV task ever, perchance launching a “Dungeons & Dragons” beingness spanning aggregate scripted and unscripted shows.

Overseeing the bid for eOne is Gabriel Marano, the company’s EVP Scripted Television.

Hasbro, which is handling each series-based user products, is presently looking to merchantability eOne’s movie and TV businesses, including the Lombardo-run TV operation, which developed and sold the Dungeons & Dragons TV series.

Featuring humans, elves, orcs and different fantastical creatures engaging successful wars, treasure hunts and campaigns, the D&D game, 1 of Hasbro’s cardinal franchise brands hailing from Wizards of the Coast, is overseen by a host, known arsenic the Dungeon Master, and employs a signature multisided dice. More than 50 cardinal fans person played D&D since it was archetypal launched 49 years ago, including videogames and livestream amusement connected Twitch and YouTube.

Thurber is the writer, shaper and manager of Red Notice, starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot, which became Netflix’s astir watched movie of each time. He is presently penning 2 sequels for Netflix and precocious sold a transportation for a diagnostic adaptation of the classical animated bid Voltron to Amazon, which helium is co-writing with Ellen Shanman and volition nonstop and nutrient alongside Todd Lieberman. Thurber is repped by WME and Hansen Jacobson Teller.