Polygon stories {that a} potential Dungeons & Dragons TV sequence is within the early levels of manufacturing. It’s headed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, author and director of Purple Discover, a staggeringly popular Netflix movie, allegedly.
D&D has had a rich and successful history in video video games. The identical, sadly, can’t be mentioned for the transferring picture. A 2000 movie that includes the good Jeremy Irons is notorious for its schlock, and I solely simply discovered about D&D: Wrath of the Dragon God and D&D: The Book of Vile Darkness, which each look much less like diamonds within the tough and quite like extra tough within the tough.
That hasn’t stopped Wizards of the Coast from urgent ahead to have one other chunk on the apple, this time in an surroundings the place style reveals are a booming success. Earlier statements from Wizards, also reported on by Polygon, indicated that the present could adapt the story of Drizzt Do’Urden, erstwhile Darkish Elf ranger and protagonist of 34 years value of Forgotten Realms tie-in novels.
Now, I cherished Drizzt after I was a child, however within the 12 months of our lord 2022, there’s one other moody, conflicted, two swords-wielding, cool leather-based armor-wearing, bizarre eyes-having World’s Finest Swordsman™ ruling the roost and he is a Polish monster hunter who loves taking baths. It is exhausting to think about a Drizzt adaptation evaluating favorably to Netflix’s fantasy hit, and the Drizzt rumors additionally date again to when completely different expertise was connected to the mission.
Apart from the Darkish Elf, it is probably not clear to me who a D&D adaptation may revolve round. Maybe it may give attention to Elminster, Ed Greenwood’s alarmingly sexually energetic Gandalf-esque alter ego, or maybe Gord the Rogue, Gary Gygax’s very personal grasp thief of Greyhawk. No matter route Wizards and Thurber take, one other adaptation of a beloved sci-fi/fantasy property is coming and there may be nothing you are able to do to cease it.
