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.
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