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Netflix Developing Live-Action Dungeons & Dragons Series “The Forgotten Realms”

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Pictured: 'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves'

A new live-action Dungeons & Dragons series, “The Forgotten Realms“, is now in development at Netflix. Deadline reports that the upcoming series has some heavy hitters behind it.

Producer Shawn Levy (Stranger Things, Deadpool & Wolverine) is teaming with writer/showrunner Drew Crevello (The Grudge 2) and Hasbro Entertainment for “The Forgotten Realms”.

Plot details are scarce at this time, but the series “will take place in the iconic campaign setting and centerpiece of the Dungeons & Dragons universe, a fantasy world that is home to some of the brand’s most famous characters and launchpad for some of D&D’s most popular adventures.”

What’s more is that “The Forgotten Realms was initially announced two years ago under a different streamer. “The Forgotten Realms received a straight-to-series order in early 2023 with eOne co-producing alongside Paramount Pictures, the studio behind the charming Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The series ultimately didn’t move forward due to ownership changes at eOne. Once Levy came aboard, the producer took the project to Netflix.

Neither Hasbro nor Netflix has commented on the revived series at this time, though.

Designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, Dungeons & Dragons was first published in 1974. Between 2000 and 2012, three Dungeons & Dragons films were released.

While we wait for additional details, Shawn Levy is also currently attached as director of Starman, a remake of John Carpenter’s sci-fi romance, and the final season of “Stranger Things”.

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‘Carrie’ Seeks Friends in First Teaser For Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King Series for Prime Video

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A lonely Carrie White seeks friendship and answers in the first teaser for Carrie, a brand new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic story from horror master Mike Flanagan.

Along with the new teaser comes the announcement that the eight-episode limited series premieres on Prime Video on October 7.

The series follows misfit high‑schooler Carrie White (Summer H. Howell), who has spent her life hidden away inside the walls of her home with her fiercely protective mother, Margaret (Samantha Sloyan). After her father’s sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social‑media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.

Carrie is written and executive produced by showrunner Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill House) with Flanagan also directing four episodes. Stephen King also serves as executive producer. 

Also starring in the series are Siena Agudong as Sue Snell, Alison Thornton as Chris Hargensen, Joel Oulette as Tommy Ross, Josie Tota as Tina, Arthur Conti as Billy, Thalia Dudek as Emaline, Amber Midthunder as Miss Desjardin, and Matthew Lillard as Principal Grayle.

Each of the show’s episodes will apparently open with the introduction ofa different, unique story of a different woman, somewhere else in the world and in time, coming to terms with their own abilities.Flanagan teased,Carrie’s specific place among that group of women is part of the real joy that we get to discover over the course of the season.

Expect Flanagan to expand King’s story in unexpected ways, using a modern lens. 

Also check out the new poster below, giving a peek at Carrie in her prom queen tiara.

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