Warner Bros. has spent a number of years developing a Dungeons & Dragons reboot, with Rob Letterman (Goosebumps) attached to direct from a script by David Leslie Johnson (The Conjuring 2). However, it seems that Joe Manganiello is also keen to take a stab as the role-playing fantasy, revealing to MTV’s Happy Sad Confused podcast that he’s written a draft for a movie adaptation and has been speaking to Wizards of the Coast about developing a potential franchise.
“Last year with a playwright I went to Carnegie Mellon with, I actually made a draft of a film, and now we’re talking to all the right parties,” said Manganiello. “I had a two-day creative summit with the Wizards of the Coast… we had like a two-day summit about where the movie could go or TV series, products, synergy, the whole deal.”
“Obviously there’s a spectacle,” he continued. “There’s dragons, breathing fire and lightning. That’s the biggest draw in Game of Thrones… [but] what makes a great fantasy or superhero movie is the human aspect. It’s gotta be about something. We root for those characters in Game of Thrones. Fellowship of the Ring was about friendship and this undying love for your friends and doing anything for your friends, and I think that’s something people can identify with…So I think when a movie is about something human and real emotionally, people are wanna go see it. And then if you get some dragons and breathing fire, I mean, hey, I’m in.”
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Of course, unless Warner Bros. decides to scrap its current plans, it would seem unlikely that Manganiello’s vision will make it to the screen any time soon…
Originally published April 10, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
