"DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS" UPDATE PART 2

 This is a continuation from the last post but I just thought I should probably break up the posts as there was a lot of info for you to read in that last post so I didn't want to bog anyone down or confuse any readers with yet more info on this or more importantly bore you to death.

I was just reading on Deadline.com's website that as part of Entertainment One's $4 billion acquisition of the toy maker giant Hasbro former HBO President of Programming Michael Lombardo who has now been named President of Global Television for eOne is now looking to build up eOne's slate by making potential multiple series' and movies based on some of Hasbro's own IP like the scripted series based on the board game "Risk" that will be developed as part of a first look deal with eOne by "House Of Cards" creator Beau Willimon, an animated series that's based on "Clue" that's currently in works over at Fox Studios, a scripted series that's in development at Netflix based on the game "Magic: The Gathering" that will star Brandon Routh, a holiday special "Play D-oh Squished" that will be hosted by Sarah Hyland that will be developed over at Amazon's IMDb TV, and the unscripted series that will be based on "Mouse Trap" being developed at Fox Studios and the other unscripted series based on "Guess Who?" that will be developed at NBC.

In this same vein as trying to build up eOne's slate Michael Lombardo has secured "Red Notice" director Rawson Marshall Thurber to spearhead eOne's "Dungeons and Dragons" television series that could bring with it a whole host of A-list names as this first series is set to be an anchor for potential other series' and spin-offs as Michael Lombardo has said that "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".

Collider.com thinks that as Rawson Marshall Thurber made one of Netflix's most popular films "Red Notice" which stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds and has managed to secure the three superstars as well as Thurber for two more films in the franchise that Netflix may be the frontrunner in streaming this and bringing this NEW! series and many more and possible spin-off series' to the masses who might be a little bit wary given the current pandemic to go back to cinemas and are choosing to stream content on various platforms at home such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, IMDb TV, Shudder etc etc.

"DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS" FILM AND TV NEWS!

I just saw this on the internet and I just had to put this up on here...but I know I'm late to the party on this because you may or may not already know that there was going to be a NEW! film adaption of this world famous multiple player fantasy board game.

But today whilst I was on Collider.com's website there was a headline that as I liked the last "Dungeons and Dragons" film despite there being mixed reactions from critics, which starred Jeremy Irons as Profion the leader of the Red Dragons who wants to take control of the throne and wants to overthrow the queen played by Thora Birch who is leader of the Gold Dragons who is locked in a war with the Red Dragons, and there were mages (wizards in training) a quest to help the Queen, a friend of the lead character Ridley Freeborn who was played by Justin Whalin called Snails who was played by Marlon Wayans dies but it looks like at the end of the film with stones piled on top of one another at his memorial shaking that he might get risen from the grave somehow...sorry if your reading this and this seems a bit shaky on details but I haven't seen this movie in a while and it get's me very frustrated when I can't seem to find this film either on Amazon Prime or on DVD format because this film is great to watch like "Eragon" when there's nothing to watch on TV.

Anyhew...according to Collider.com's website this movie that will star Chris Pine who you may or may not recognise from films like "This Means War", "Wonder Woman", "Wonder Women 1984", Michelle Rodriguez who you may or may not recognise from the "Fast and Furious" film franchise who plays the character Letty, Hugh Grant who you may or may not recognise from the film "The Gentleman", Rege-Jean Page who you may or may not recognise from "Bridgerton", and Justice Smith who you may or may recognise from "Detective Pikachu" is pencilled in for a March 3rd 2023 release date with the movie already marked on IMDb.com's website as in post production having filming ending in August 2021...so we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed that this makes it to a screen near you.

Also according to Collider.com this isn't the only adaption of the hugely successful role playing game as the creator behind the "John Wick" franchise Dereck Kolstad is going to helm a series that according to an interview with  Collider.com's website and Dereck Kolstad " I want to do a tinier sliver of that world. And it's been a joy". Dereck Kolstad went on to say in this same interview with Collider.com that:

"...I don't want to suddenly throw on screen and say 'Here's the buffet'. You'd much rather keep the story intimate. When you think of our favourite movies, I'd rather do the First Blood version. It's a guy in the woods being hunted. And it's very small, but you allude to the other things through conversation. You have your USS Indianapolis (in JAWS), you see something in the background. You hear a name that 3% of the audience is like "Ho ho! I think we're going to see him soon".  

In this same Collider.com interview Dereck Koldstad has been playing around with the idea that the first season will likely have six to ten episodes and that he likes the Disney+ approach to series' like "The Mandalorian" where "...it doesn't have to be a certain number of pages or certain number of format length..." and that the first and second episodes are more planned out within the Season 1 arc with him saying that "Here's the first episode, and I think any episode is the second most important because it's the second episode that get's it's talons in you. Everyone will watch the pilot , but are you going to stick with it?".

Dereck Kolstad also said that he wasn't sure yet what the title of this series would be yet or what characters he'd get to include in the series because of the many legal meetings he's had to have because of the shifting rights issue with the movie version of "Dungeons and Dragons" that will also be produced by Paramount Pictures, but what he did say about one possible detail about where this series would be set is that he said he "...go deeper and deeper into the Underdark..." people who are familiar with the game will know the Underdark is a setting within the mythology of the game, a series of connected, underground, globally spanning tunnels and bridges that is often home to more nefarious, shadier, magically intimidating characters that will be familiar to any Dungeon Master...so sounds like to me this series could see "The Witcher" style dark epic scenery with just as fantastical monsters in it like orcs, trolls, mages etc etc. 

Or this could just be me as there is no further details available at this time but one thing Collider.com did seem to suggest was that as Paramount Pictures was producing this series as well as the film there could be a possible link between this series and film.

"FINAL DESTINATION" IS BEING REBOOTED BY NEW LINE CINEMA!

I was reading this the other day on the internet and I still don't know what to make of this as according to The Hollywood Reporter's website that the director of "Spiderman: No Way Home" has joined the creative team behind this reboot of the "Final Destination" film franchise that will be a HBO original release that is simply called "Final Destination 6" at the moment.

Jon Watt's will also according to IMDB.com's website will be producing as well as writing the story for this reboot, along with Guy Busick, Lori Evans Taylor also writing this "Final Fantasy 6". Also according to IMDB.com's website Richard Brener and Dave Neustadter will be executive producing. Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor will produce this project.

Also according to The Hollywood Reporter's website also joining this creative team is Dianne Mcgunigle and Jon Watt's wife and manager as a producer.

I didn't know what to make of this as the last time I checked there has been 5 "Final Destination" films and by now everybody knows the story/ premise of these movies,-which is if your not sure I'll fill in the blanks for you, someone gets a premonition that during some kind of situation like in one film a girl gets a premonition that there's going to be a massive pile up on a major road that will kill a load of people and she stalls her car on the on ramp of the same road stopping people going on the road but one by one they all die as death doesn't like to be cheated, then there's a guy who get's a premonition before he boards a flight that people are going to die so stops getting on the plane and guess what happens to these people that get off the plane they start dying one by one, and then there's someone getting a premonition before they get on a rollercoaster etc etc,- so how on earth can you reboot this franchise as surely there are only so many times you can make a film using the story where death doesn't like to be cheated before it get's boring and predictable what's going to happen and even though The Hollywood Reporter's website says that the first movie grossed $112 million worldwide and trying to throw new writers into the mix in order to reboot this film franchise still won't work because it just looks like New Line Cinema and HBO Max are just trying to make money off of this already successful film franchise because their maybe wanting to do a horror film but are stuck for ideas for an original horror movie because how can you do a reboot of this storyline that's fresh and original that will bring new audiences as well as already fans of this film to want to watch this film especially now during the pandemic as people really don't want to travel to the cinema or anywhere I imagine if they don't have to, so if it's just going to be a rehash of other "Final Destination" films people will definitely not want to go to go to the see that as they'll feel that they've been cheated out of money to buy tickets and popcorn or whatever people eat at the cinema just to walk out of that screening feeling like they shouldn't have bothered and that it maybe would have been better to watch this at home on a streaming service.

So let's hope this new story for this "Final Destination 6" movie doesn't disappoint as according to IMDb.com's website says that a group of first responders escape death's grasp, they start to be killed by increasingly unlikely and killer mishaps...let's guess these mishaps mean people will die one by one in gruesome ways like in the one of the "Final Destination" films for example two girls got mysteriously trapped whilst in a tanning bed, a star athlete got his head chopped off whilst weightlifting in the gym, another "Final Destination" film had someone that didn't believe that death was slowly killing the group off with his own nail gun whilst stacking shelves at the local hardware store.

There's not a release date for this yet so I'll update this post when I find out more.