John Wick writer set to pitch a new Dungeon & Dragons live-action adaptation • WBHnews

Derek Kolstad – author for the John Wick franchise in addition to Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – is reportedly growing a brand new sequence pitch primarily based upon Dungeons & Dragons.

Based on Variety, it is simply certainly one of a number of D&D initiatives at the moment underway – apparently Hasboro movie studio eOne can also be in talks a couple of Dungeon & Dragons mission – though Kolstad’s therapy “is anticipated to craft a narrative that can seize essential points of the franchise by a live-action lens”.

As you would possibly nicely count on, not a lot else is but recognized concerning the mission – Selection says “particulars on the place Kolstad plans to take the storyline or how he intends to develop the franchise haven’t but been revealed” – nevertheless it’s thought it hopes to capitalise on the increase in new D&D followers that began taking part in throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

As for different video games getting a TV adaptation? Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov will reportedly be directing the upcoming HBO adaptation of The Final of Us. Though it was initially speculated that the manufacturing would reunite Chernobyl’s Craig Mazin with director Johan Renck, it is now thought Renck needed to drop out due to a scheduling battle.

HBO greenlit the brand new tv adaptation of The Final of Us on the finish of final yr. The mission is progressing below the watch of Mazin and the sport’s author Neil Druckmann, alongside PlayStation Productions, Phrase Video games, and, after all, Naughty Canine.
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