‘Dungeons & Dragons’ TV Series Will Feature “A Tinier Sliver” Of The D&D World, Writer Compares It To ‘First Blood’
By Chris Evangelista/March 24, 2021 4:30 pm EST
John Wick franchise writer Derek Kolstad is tackling some of the scripts for the Dungeons & Dragons show, and speaking with Collider, Kolstad said that the series will only involve “a tinier sliver of that world,” adding:
Kolstad added that he doesn’t “want to go in the middle of the mythos. I want to come near the end where everything is canonical, it’s biblical, it’s happened. Or, it’s about to happen. That way you can revisit certain sequences and storylines that everyone loved in the past through flashback, but where we go is new. The unique yet familiar of it all is why we return to the games we love.”
I’m not a D&D player so I don’t really have much attachment to the material, but I do like the sound of Kolstad’s approach here. Less is more sometimes, and it’s okay to embrace that! Besides, fans who want even more will get that via the new Dungeons & Dragons movie, which is being directed by Game Night filmmakers John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, with Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, and Justice Smith on board to star.
