Honor Among Thieves Directors Say Film Flopped Due to ‘Not-So-Great’ Timing

“It was very much a product of not-so-great timing when the first movie came out,” Daley said in an episode of The Discourse Podcast. “It came out four days before the Super Mario movie, which broke records. It came out a month after Wizards of the Coast changed the official gaming license, prompting many D&D fans to boycott the game, and I don’t think the marketing did enough to tell people who weren’t already fans that this movie might be for them. Yeah, so it was a perfect storm of all of those elements, and we’ll see.”

Honor Among Thieves struggled at the box office, and Paramount has since passed up on making a sequel due to “financial” reasons. But Daley and Goldstein are hopeful that another studio will pick them up to continue telling stories in the Dungeons & Dragons universe.

“Yeah, absolutely,” Goldstein confirmed after being asked if anyone is actively crunching the numbers for a possible sequel. “I think Hasbro is a big believer in it, and if they can figure out a studio partner to make it work, they’ll want to proceed. As are our producers.”

“I mean, look, it’s something that is near and dear to our hearts in that we loved making the first one,” Daley added. “We fell in love with the characters, and there’s so much potential in a sequel because the first act isn’t filled with exposition or introduction to this family that we’ve already become accustomed to. So you can kind of launch right into the story, which is really nice.”

Fans shouldn’t despair; while an Honor Among Thieves sequel is still up in the air, a live-action TV series is officially in the works at Netflix, based on the TTRPG’s gothic-horror world “Ravenloft.” Described as a “prestige fantasy series where adventure collides with gothic horror and tragic romance,” it follows “the making of the vampire Darklord Strahd von Zarovic.”

Even better, a new third-person action-adventure game titled Dungeons & Dragons: Warlock is also in development, set to release sometime in 2027.