Deadline is reporting that Paramount+ has ordered a live-action adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons. The streamer gave the show an eight-episode, straight-to-series order, according to the report.
The pilot was reportedly written by Rawson Marshall Thurber (Red Notice) and he will also direct the first episode, which will also be a co-production between the lead studio eOne and Paramount Pictures.
Deadline reported that Paramount scooped up the adaptation “in a competitive situation,” after eOne began showing the project around in November. It won’t be the first D&D project between eOne and Paramount, with the pair o-producing and co-financing the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie directed by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley The film premieres March 31. Gabriel Marano, eOne’s of EVP Scripted Television, is reportedly overseeing the series.
The D&D live-action show will become second game-to-show adaptation to hit Paramount+ after Halo, which despite poor reviews from the gaming community the show has become the streamer’s “most popular originals.”
According to Deadline, a D&D adaptation for TV “is a major focus for eOne under President of Global Television Michael Lombardo following the company’s 2019 acquisition by Hasbro,” and the project has been described as the studio’s “largest-scope TV project ever, potentially launching a ‘Dungeons & Dragons‘ universe spanning multiple scripted and unscripted shows.”
Wizards of the Coast, which created Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, was acquired by Hasbro in 1999.
