There's been talk of a Dungeons & Dragons TV show in the works at some streamer or another for many years. According to Deadline, one finally might go forward at Netflix: The Forgotten Realms.

Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game where players sit around a table, roll dice, and pretend to be elves and wizards and warriors and so on. You probably already knew that, but we've gotta be thorough. Forgotten Realms is the name of a hugely popular campaign setting first introduced in 1987. It's the setting for a lot of D&d books, games comics and the 2023 movie Honor Among Thieves, although this show seemingly has no direct connection to the film.

Drew Crevello wrote the pilot for The Forgotton Realms and will serve as showrunner. But the biggest name attached to it is Shawn Levy. In addition to co-writing and directing the billion-dollar Marvel movie Deadpool & Wolverine,...