In a manner eerily reminiscent of that time we pissed off our DM, Brian Carter, while he was driving us back from a screening of the Tim Burton movie in 2001—thus dooming Guldo The Dwarf, Davin The Wizard, and Torrid The Death Priest to a sudden, horrifying bout of abrupt non-existence—Paramount+ has announced that it’s bailing on its plans to make a live-action TV show set in the universe of . Details on the split—including who will be providing gas money, and whether Paramount+ will be allowed to keep the already-opened bag of Doritos, even though Janey’s mom actually paid for them—have yet to be revealed as we go to press. , Hasbro, which owns the rights to , is expected to try to shop the series around to other possible buyers.
The series was initially announced back in January of 2023, back around the same time was building up steam on its journey to becoming one of the first actually good adaptations to ever make it to mainstream audiences. Rawson Marshall Thurber, who’s mostly known as one of Dwayne Johnson’s go-to directors (on stuff like , , and ) created this previous draft of the series, although Hasbro will apparently be recruiting a new party of creatives to try to tackle this particular quest for a second time. Actual plot details about the live-action series are basically nil, although, we’re going to go out on a limb and assume that, at some point, a wizard was going to contemplate an orb.
managed to have a pretty huge 2023, all told, despite.
