New Dungeons & Dragons TV Series Coming to Paramount+
Live-action D&D series ordered for Paramount+ from writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber
A Dungeons & Dragons TV series will soon be coming to a small screen near you, according to a recent report from Deadline. The online streaming platform Paramount+ has greenlit eight episodes, which will be a co-production between eOne and Paramount Pictures. The series will reportedly be helmed by Rawson Marhsall Thurber who also wrote and directed the 2021 film Red Notice, starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot, which became Netflix’s most watched film of all time.
According to the Deadline story, Thurber has already written the pilot and is set to direct the first episode of the series. The project has been developed primary by eOne, the film and television production company which Dungeons & Dragons owner Hasbro purchased in 2019 for over $4 billion and more recently listed for sale in November 2022 (which had lead to rumors that eOne was in fact planning to scrap most of their TV and film projects).
In the Deadline article, they note that eOne had shopped the series around to several potential buyers before going with Paramount+. Notably, Paramount Pictures has also partnered with eOne on the upcoming D&D movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which is hitting theatres on March 31st.
The news follows a recent Hasbro investors call in which Wizards of the Coast CEO Cynthia Williams noted that the D&D license remained “under-monetized,” citing a desire to expand the intellectual property via film and TV.
According to Deadline, adapting Dungeons & Dragons for television has been a major focus for eOne President of Global Television Michael Lombardo following the company’s 2019 acquisition by Hasbro. The live-action D&D series would be eOne’s biggest (and potentially most expensive) TV project ever, with the goal of spinning off additional film and TV properties.
The timing, however, remains unusual in that at the same time Hasbro is looking to sell off eOne, it’s also looking to launch a TV series featuring its biggest game license.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on this story as it develops and we learn more about the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons TV series.
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Cameron Nichols is a Senior Editor who lives in Boston, Massechustes, and has been playing D&D since the early 90s, when he was introduced by his older brother and cut his teeth on AD&D 2nd Edition. Since then he’s played virtually every RPG he could get his nerdy little mitts on (including a weird Goth phase in the early 2000s when he rocked Vampire: The Masquerade pretty hard). His favorite D&D campaign setting is the Forgotten Realms and his favorite character to play was a Half-Orc Barbarian named Grug (who was unfortunately devoured by a gelatinous cube).
