Drew Crevello has been hired to serve as showrunner and executive producer on the live-action TV series adaptation of the “Dungeons and Dragons” fantasy role-playing property on the Paramount+ service.
Announced in January, the eight-episode project scored a straight-to-series order with “Red Notice” filmmaker Rawson Marshall Thurber penning the pilot script and set to direct the first episode.
Crevello helped to develop films like “X-Men: First Class” and “Deadpool” whilst an exec at 20th Century Fox, and recently co-created Apple’s limited series “WeCrashed”.
eOne and Paramount Pictures are behind the project, which will join “Halo” as another game title (albeit a video game in that case) making the jump to live-action form on the Paramount+ service.
It is also tipped to be eOne’s largest-scope TV project, potentially launching a “Dungeons & Dragons” small-screen universe spanning multiple scripted and unscripted shows.
‘Dungeons’ involve elves, orcs and other fantastical beings who engage in battles and treasure hunts, with multisided dice as a signature element. More than 50 million fans have played D&D since it was first launched nearly fifty years ago.
Paramount Pictures recently released Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley’s film “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” to very good reviews and has grossed over $127 million worldwide.
Source: Variety
