Shawn Levy says making Netflix's Dungeons and Dragons TV show has been a "challenging process" because "you're adapting a world and a lexicon and a spirit"

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Netflix is still bringing us The Forgotten Realms, it's just going to take a while

Mike, Lucas, and Will playing Dungeons and Dragons in Stranger Things season 1
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Stranger Things director Shawn Levy says the previously announced live-action Netflix Dungeons & Dragons TV series is still in the works, it's just taking a while.

"I think that the reason it's taken so long and the reason why it is a challenging process is you're not adapting story IP," Levy told Collider. "You're adapting a world and a lexicon and a spirit, but story needs to be invented largely from scratch. And it needs to be invented in a way that feels organic to everything that's great about DnD. So that one is in very active every day chipping-away-at-it development at Netflix."

Lauren Milici
Lauren Milici
Senior Entertainment Writer

Lauren Milici is a Senior Entertainment Writer for GamesRadar+ based in New York City. She previously reported on breaking news for The Independent's Indy100 and created TV and film listicles for Ranker. Her work has been published in Fandom, Nerdist, Paste Magazine, Vulture, PopSugar, Fangoria, and more.

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