DUNGEONS & DRAGONS movie gets title

The new Dungeons and Dragons live-action film has finally gotten a title. The film will be called Honor Among Thieves and will be released on 3 March, 2023.

The film stars Chris Pine, Justice Smith, Rege-Jean Page, Sophia Lillis, Michelle Rodriguez and Hugh Grant. The film is written and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Relatively little is known about the movie, except it is set in the Forgotten Realms fantasy world and the city of Neverwinter will feature.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS movie wraps

Co-director John Francis Daley has confirmed that shooting has wrapped on the new Dungeons & Dragons feature film.

Shooting began on or around 29 April, with shooting based at the Titanic Studios in Belfast, Northern Ireland (previously home to Game of Thrones). Location shooting has taken place in Northern Ireland, Iceland and at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland.

Daley co-directed the film with his long-term collaborator Jonathan Goldstein. Their previous projects include the comedy films Horrible Bosses and Game Night, and writing the MCU movie Spider-Man: Homecoming.

This is, technically, the fifth Dungeons & Dragons feature, following on from three increasingly low-budget movies in the 2000s (only one of which was theatrically released) and an animated Dragonlance movie. However, this project has a vastly greater budget.

The film is set in the Forgotten Realms world and the city of Neverwinter will feature. Beyond that, little is known of the plot. The cast includes Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith and Regé-Jean Page, who are believed to be members of an adventuring band who run afoul of a villainous plot orchestrated by Forge Fletcher, played by Hugh Grant.

The film is currently set for release by Paramount Pictures on 3 March 2023. A D&D TV series is also in development with John Wick writer Derek Kolstad developing a concept. Wizards of the Coast have teased this project may involve Forgotten Realms signature character Drizzt Do'Urden in some capacity.

DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS movie starts production

After many, many years of delays, legal action and a lot of writer and director turnover, filming is finally underway on the new Dungeons and Dragons film.

Shooting appears to be underway at the main production base in the Titanic Studios in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the production is using the studio facilities previously employed by Game of Thrones. Second unit location shooting has also already taken place in the south of Iceland.

Production is set to run through the summer, with next year devoted to post-production and effects. The film is directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley and starts Chris Pine, Hugh Grant, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page and Justice Smith. The film is currently set for release on 3 March 2023.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS movie to start shooting in old GAME OF THRONES studios in the new year

The long, long-gestating new Dungeons & Dragons film is to start shooting in the Titanic Studios (aka Paint Hall Studios) in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the new year.

Paramount have leased the facility as the primary production base for the film, which will presumably also avail itself of the local impressive scenery. Obviously it's not the first fantasy project to be filmed at the studios. In July-November 2009 it played host to the best-forgotten fantasy comedy Your Highness, and from October 2009 all the way to July 2018 the studio served as the primary production base for HBO's Game of Thrones. A pilot for a proposed spin-off show was also shot there in 2019, but HBO elected to drop that project in favour of another idea, House of the Dragon, which is instead using the Warner Brothers Studio at Leavesden, outside London.

Plans to make a new D&D movie have been underway at Hasbro for a decade, with multiple studios, writers and directors involved at different times, as well as a punishing legal battle. With all the obstacles removed, the film now looks set to genuinely start shooting early next year, presumably to debut in 2022 or 2023.

The film is written and will be directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (Game Night). Chris Pine is in talks to star.

Chris Pine in talks to join DUNGEONS & DRAGONS movie

Chris Pine is in negotiations to star in Paramount's upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie.

The film, which has been through multiple writers, directors, legal battles and potential stars in the last seven years, now appears close to getting the full green light. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who wrote and directed Game Night and wrote Spider-Man: Homecoming, are tapped to write and direct the film for Paramount, Hasbro and eOne.

David Leslie Johnson, Rob Letterman and Chris McKay were previously involved in development, whilst Ansel Elgort was tapped to star back in 2016. At that time the film was set in the Forgotten Realms world with the story revolving around the Yawning Portal Inn in the city of Waterdeep. Reportedly, Goldstein and Daley threw out those ideas and started from scratch with a new idea developed by writer Michael Gilio when the project moved from Warner Brothers to Paramount.

Pine is best-known for his role as Captain Kirk in three Star Trek movies (Star Trek, Into Darkness and Beyond), which he may yet reprise, and for starring in the two Wonder Woman films from Patty Jenkins.

Hasbro are also developing a Dungeons and Dragons TV series as an additional project.