The box office for ‘Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ has been disappointing, but it hasn’t stopped it from Drew Crevello has been selected as the executive producer and showrunner of ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, Paramount+’s live-action series based on Hasbro’s popular fantasy RPG franchise. Crevello will work closely with series creator Rawson Marshall Thurber, who wrote the script for the pilot and is set to direct the first episode.
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The project, which has an eight-episode order, is a co-production between eOne and Paramount Pictures, with eOne serving as lead studio. It has been pointed out that ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ will be eOne’s most far-reaching TV project, potentially launching a TV universe spanning multiple series. Gabriel Marano, Executive Vice President and Co-Head of Script Development, is overseeing the series. for independent study.
With humans, elves, orcs, and other fantastical creatures engaged in wars, treasure hunts, and campaigns, the D&D game, one of the key brands of the Hasbro franchise, which has earned more than 50 million fans playing D&D since it was first released 49 years ago, including gaming and live entertainment on Twitch and YouTube. His mark appears in series like ‘Stranger Things’.
Crevello, a former 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. executive, developed films like ‘Deadpool’ and ‘X-Men: First Class’, co-created, executive produced and co-hosted the Apple TV+ limited series ‘WeCrashed,’ starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway. Paramount Pictures and eOne recently released the Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley directed film, which opened in theaters on March 31.