{"id":49900,"date":"2021-11-23T18:52:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T23:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=49900"},"modified":"2021-11-23T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T23:52:19","slug":"hasbro-developing-multiple-dungeons-dragons-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/23\/hasbro-developing-multiple-dungeons-dragons-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasbro Developing Multiple DUNGEONS & DRAGONS TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hasbro is working on developing a number of television series spinning off from its iconic Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> fantasy role-playing game.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview with Deadline<\/a>, Hasbro executive Michael Lombardo, formerly President of Programming at HBO, stated that the toy company has been working at transitioning towards becoming a brand company, which would mean leveraging the numerous games they publish into other media. Chief among those intellectual property’s the iconic fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Our big focus now is Dungeons & Dragons<\/em>… We don\u2019t 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lombardo notes that the company has a Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> film in post-production. (It has a 2023 scheduled release date.) He also hints that the TV series may be in some way related to the film saying “[W]e’re trying to also navigate the brand more holistically so that the movie feels not apart from but connected somehow to a bigger universe.”<\/p>\n

While Lombardo gave no description as to what an unscripted series based on Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> would be like, hopefully they are moving in a direction away from a number of web, YouTube and Twitch streaming series such as Critical Role, which feature players playing a campaign.<\/p>\n

Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> was created by Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax, combining elements from tabletop miniature wargames, individual character role-play and numerous fantasy novels. The initial version of the game was published in 1975, but it wasn’t until a streamlined version of the basic rules, alongside a more complicated version known as Advanced Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> were in 1977 that the game began to grow in popularity. Over the years, it has undergone four extensive overhauls of its rules system.<\/p>\n

Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> was adapted for television before in the 1980s as a children’s Saturday morning animated series that ran from 1983 to 1985. A not very good live action film starring Justin Whalon, Marlon Wayans, Thora Birch and Jeremy Irons was released in 2000 and bombed at the box office. Somehow, two more direct-to-video movies were greenlit, though they fared as poorly.<\/p>\n

The upcoming new Dungeons & Dragons<\/strong> film stars Chris Pine and Michelle Rodrigues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The iconic role playing game is being eyed as the basis for a number of television series.<\/div>\n

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