Warner Bros. Acquires Rights to D&D Movie

Given we cover so many D&D-based titles and have found the time to laugh at bad movie tie-ins in the past, I thought we might as well post about Warner Bros. acquiring the rights for a D&D movie. Given that the script is written by the man responsible for Wrath of the Titans and Red Riding Hood and that each D&D movie was worse than its predecessor, I’m not expecting anything good. But hey, at least it’ll probably have a big budget!

This ought to reverberate through the geek realm. Warner Bros has acquired rights to make a movie based on Dungeons & Dragons, the perennially popular role-playing game fantasy game. The studio is actually quite far along in the development of the project, as it will use a script by Wrath Of The Titans and Red Riding Hood scribe and Frank Darabont protege David Leslie Johnson. That script, Chainmail, was acquired last year as a free-standing project, based on an obscure game that was also hatched by D&D designer Gary Gygax before he and Dave Arneson launched D&D. It is being retro-fitted to fit the much bigger game creation. The film will be produced by The Lego Movie producer Roy Lee and Courtney Solomon. The latter actually directed a 2000 Dungeons & Dragons feature, a film that starred Jeremy Irons and did not do well.