'Dungeons & Dragons' Movie Close to Attaching 'Game Night' Directors
"Dungeons and Dragons" is one step closer to the big screen.
A movie adaptation of the enormously popular fantasy tabletop RPG game has been in development for years. Now, there's some movement forward — John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are in talks to direct, according to Deadline.
The duo was also behind "Game Night" and wrote "Spider-Man: Homecoming."
The "Dungeons and Dragons" project comes from Paramount and Hasbro’s AllSpark Pictures banner.
The game was first published in 1974 and is now under the banner of Wizards of the Coast (a subsidiary of Hasbro). Players create their own characters who embark on adventures in a fantasy setting. A Dungeon Master serves as the game's storyteller and narrates the setting, interactions with the world's creatures and inhabitants, and battles.
In 2000, "Dungeons and Dragons" was turned into a movie, which was a critical and commercial failure. Since then, first Warner Bros., now Paramount has been trying to get a reboot off the ground.
But it seems like things may finally move forward. Goldstein and Daley were recently attached to direct "The Flash" standalone movie, but left that project.