Red Notice director Rawson Marshall Thurber has been drafted in to help adapt Hasbro's beloved Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game for television.
According to Deadline, Thurber has been enlisted as the creative overlord of an upcoming Dungeons & Dragons series at eOne, with a deal that sees him writing and directing the pilot, in addition to executive producing the hourlong project. The series is expected to serve as a cornerstone of the D&D TV universe, which will feature both scripted and unscripted shows.
"We don't want it to just be one show, 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," eOne's President of Global Television Michael Lombardo said of the company's plans while speaking to Deadline last November.
The D&D project that Thurber is shepherding is said to have garnered the interest of multiple buyers, which likely includes Netflix, the company that previously took a gamble on Red Notice, only for it to become the streamer's most-watched movie ever. Netflix has since ordered two sequels of the star-studded heist caper, with Thurber reportedly back for both.
eOne previously tapped John Wick creator and writer Derek Kolstad to develop a D&D series, which is just one of several spinoffs said to be accompanying eOne's film franchise. The first feature film set in the fantasy world of Hasbro's hugely popular game from Wizards of the Coast recently wrapped filming and is expected to roll out on the big screen in 2023.
Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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According to Deadline, Thurber has been enlisted as the creative overlord of an upcoming Dungeons & Dragons series at eOne, with a deal that sees him writing and directing the pilot, in addition to executive producing the hourlong project. The series is expected to serve as a cornerstone of the D&D TV universe, which will feature both scripted and unscripted shows.
"We don't want it to just be one show, 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," eOne's President of Global Television Michael Lombardo said of the company's plans while speaking to Deadline last November.
The D&D project that Thurber is shepherding is said to have garnered the interest of multiple buyers, which likely includes Netflix, the company that previously took a gamble on Red Notice, only for it to become the streamer's most-watched movie ever. Netflix has since ordered two sequels of the star-studded heist caper, with Thurber reportedly back for both.
eOne previously tapped John Wick creator and writer Derek Kolstad to develop a D&D series, which is just one of several spinoffs said to be accompanying eOne's film franchise. The first feature film set in the fantasy world of Hasbro's hugely popular game from Wizards of the Coast recently wrapped filming and is expected to roll out on the big screen in 2023.
Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
Thumbnail image credit: Wizards of the Coast.
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