Red Notice director to oversee live-action Dungeons & Dragons TV show

When it rains, it pours. We’ve been hearing for a while about a Dungeons & Dragons movie starring Chris Pine, Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page, and Hugh Grant as the villain. We’ve also heard about John Wick writer Derek Kolstad developing a pitch for a D&D series. Now, Deadline reports that Red Notice director Rawson Marshall Thurber will oversee a new live-action TV show based on the popular fantasy role-playing game.

Of course, all of this is by design. Hasbro, which owns D&D makers Wizards of the Coast, has been trying to get a Dungeons & Dragons cinematic universe going ever since it acquired entertainment company eOne. The new Thurber show, which will complement the D&D film franchise, is to be the cornerstone of that universe, although they want to build out from there.

There’s no home for the new series yet, although given that Thurber already has connections with Netflix through Red Notice (he’s directing two more sequels after that movie became the biggest hit in the streamer’s history), it seems like a strong possibility.

Dungeons & Dragons media is exploding

Dungeons & Dragons is more popular now than it’s ever been, with a lot of people finding the game in quarantine. There’s more D&D media out there, too, even if it doesn’t bear that name. The new Amazon Prime Video show Vox Machina, for example, is based on a D&D campaign, even if they’ve filed the serial numbers off so as to avoid legal trouble.

There have been Dungeons & Dragons movies before, but they were usually pretty dire. But in our current post-Game of Thrones moment, fantasy is hotter than it’s ever been, so Hasbro might as well strike while the iron’s hot.

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