Rob Letterman knows a thing or two about directing literature to film adaptations, seeing as he has helmed both 2010’s Gulliver’s Travels (based on a satire by Jonathan Swift) and last year’s Goosebumps (based on R.L. Stine’s popular book series), but he is now setting his sights on something a bit different: a role-playing game to film adaptation. According to The Tracking Board, Letterman has signed on to helm the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie at Warner Bros.
Letterman will also co-write the film’s script with David Leslie Johnson, a writer best known for his work on Wrath of the Titans and Orphan; Johnson was also supposedly hired to pen the screenplay for DC’s James Wan-directed Aquaman movie back in November as well.
It’s also worth noting that the report mentions that producers are looking for a “Vin Diesel-type” lead character for the movie. It seems fitting that Vin Diesel is being used as an example for ideal casting, since the actor himself has said in the past how he is such a huge fan of the game.
Considering how almost each of Letterman’s feature films (aside from Monsters vs. Aliens) has starred Jack Black, it may not be completely ludicrous to theorize that the actor could have a role in the film. Also, Letterman has only directed comedies, which seems to suggest that the movie will have a lighter tone than other movies and TV shows that takes place in fantastical realms, such as The Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones. However, details about the movie are largely unknown at the time, so all of that is just pure speculation.
Dungeons & Dragons was designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and first published in 1974.
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Originally published March 31, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
