Following the commercial (if not critical) success of its Halo TV series, Paramount+ is delving into video-game-adjacent realms anew, this time with a live-action adaptation of the seminal Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing series.
As reported by Deadline, Paramount+ secured the TV rights to the series following interest from multiple buyers, with the streaming service having now placed an eight-episode order.
Paramount Pictures and eOne are partnering to produce the series (the pair are also co-producing the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie Honor Among Thieves), which is being described as the studio’s “largest-scope TV project ever”.
Deadline says the live-action series’ pilot episode will be written and directed by Red Notice filmmaker Rawson Marshall Thurber, with there already being talk of a Dungeons & Dragons “universe” spanning multiple shows.
Alongside the upcoming show and Honor Among Thieves movie (which stars the likes of Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, and Hugh Grant, and is set to release in the US this March), Dungeons & Dragons owner Wizards of the Coast also has a number of video games in the works.