D&D Sequel Script Written, Blocked by Budget
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- Jonathan Goldstein revealed at Comic-Con that he and co-director John Francis Daley were hired to write a sequel to 2023's Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, telling ScreenRant he doesn't know if it "will see the light of day for a number of financial reasons."
- Goldstein called the films "expensive movies to make" but said the creative team loves the cast and believes they "wrote something that fans would like," leaving the project in limbo rather than dead.
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves earned strong reviews — 91% from critics and 92% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes — but grossed $205M worldwide against a $150M production budget.
- Paramount+ ordered a live-action D&D series in 2023 from Rawson Marshall Thurber but opted not to move forward the following year.
- Hasbro has since shopped the live-action series elsewhere, landing it at Netflix under a new title, The Forgotten Realms, with Shawn Levy directing and Drew Crevello as writer-showrunner.
Why it matters: The D&D sequel's fate shows how a film with strong critical scores (91% on Rotten Tomatoes) and a $205M worldwide gross can still be too expensive for a studio to justify continuing — the franchise isn't dead, it's just priced out of its original home.
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