Netflix is rolling the dice on a live-action series based on the ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ gothic horror campaign, ‘Ravenloft’.
Netflix is rolling the dice on a new live-action TV series based on the Dungeons & Dragons gothic-horror campaign Ravenloft, reports Variety.
The collaboration with the Hasbro-owned D&D maker Wizards of the Coast takes the place of another project inspired by the tabletop role-playing game, The Forgotten Realms.
Via the outlet, the Ravenloft series is described as a “prestige fantasy series where adventure collides with gothic horror and tragic romance, Ravenloft and its Domains of Dread redefine adventure through character-driven stories of dark magic and supernatural intrigue. At the heart of the series, Ravenloft follows the making of the vampire Darklord Strahd von Zarovich, whose story of power, love, obsession, and undead transformation charts his origins from tragic antihero to one of Dungeons & Dragons’ most notorious villains.”
For the unfamiliar, Ravenloft launched in 1983 from creators Tracy and Laura Hickman and has since become one of the most-played settings in D&D.
I’m not a D&D player, but if I were, it sounds like Ravenloft would be my setting of choice, as well.
The project hails from creators John August and executive producer Alfonso Cuarón.
Additional executive producers include Gabriel Marano for Hasbro, Richard Schwartz, and Gaby Rodriguez for Esperanto Filmoj.
The news comes just as Wizards of the Coast recently unleashed Ravenloft: The Horrors Within, an expanded and updated reimagining of the original storyline.
