Wizards of the Coast is “exploring” the possibility of new Dungeons & Dragons movie and TV projects. In the build up to the release of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Hasbro seemed to have an ambitious D&D Cinematic Universe plan in place. Although the movie underperformed, Paramount+ still picked up a Dungeons & Dragons television show with Rawson Marshall Thurber as the pilot script writer and director of the first episode and Drew Crevello as the showrunner.
However, Hasbro’s sale of eOne, its in-house entertainment studio seems to have caused those plans to come crashing to a halt. The Paramount+ TV show was announced as no longer moving forward last year and other loose plans to continue a shared D&D universe seems dead in the water.
Despite the underperformance of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the movie was spoken fondly of and often during an EN World press visit to Wizards of the Coast headquarters last week. When asked if this talk meant we’d be getting an update on a possible sequel, Jess Lanzillo, the VP of the D&D franchise at Wizards, said “Not officially, no.”
However, it appears interest remains high in possible future D&D projects. “After I joined the team at the end of Q1 2024, we kind of reestablished our relationship with a lot of studios and partners,” Lanzillo said. “And we’re doing a lot of exploration. We basically have aligned our philosophy to we want to pair up with the best creators and let them tell the best stories that they already know how to do, because all of these people started telling stories through playing D&D. And through that, there are a series of explorations that we are very, very excited about. When we’re ready to announce them, we will let you know.”
Reading in between the lines, it appears that decoupling from eOne has opened up the possibility of other studios and partners jumping into a D&D live-action or animated project. We’ll have to see if it will be another 12 years in between Dungeons & Dragons movies.
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