Tuesday, May 7, 2013

IGN All: Warner Bros. Acquires D&D Screen Rights

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Warner Bros. Acquires D&D Screen Rights
May 8th 2013, 02:55

Ready that 20-sided die, lads! Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to make a movie based on the insanely popular Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

According to Deadline, the studio is already far along in the project's development and is using a script by Wrath of the Titans and Frank Darabont protege David Leslie Johnson. Called Chainmail, the current screenplay -- loosely based on an obscure game similar to D&D -- will soon be reworked to fit the new Dungeons & Dragons feature.

The LEGO Movie's Roy Lee and Courtney Solomon will produce the film. (Solomon, as it happens, also directed the not-so-successful 2000 D&D movie starring Jeremy Irons.)

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