Warner Bros. to Make ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Movie
Fantasy adventure is big business nowadays, particularly at Warner Bros., who currently have Peter Jackson‘s Hobbit trilogy firing on all cylinders. Now, the studio has acquired the rights to make a movie based on the popular Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
It seems like a no-brainer; Dungeons & Dragons has generated more than $1 billion in revenue from books and merchandise since its launch in 1974, and with the advancements in filmmaking technology that have come along since Jackson adapted the “unfilmable” Lord of the Rings novels, it looks as though the WB is putting this one on the fast track. They already have a script from Wrath of the Titans and Red Riding Hood scribe David Leslie Johnson.
The film will be produced by Roy Lee and Courtney Solomon, who are behind the currently-developing The Lego Movie. Solomon actually directed a Dungeons & Dragons film starring Jeremy Irons that died a painful death at the box office in 2000. (That movie barely registers on Flickchart, with a global rank of #9805 and a nasty 13% win percentage.)
One can hope Warner Bros. will do the popular property a better favor with this new version.
via Deadline