{"id":96815,"date":"2026-11-01T03:21:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T19:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96815"},"modified":"2026-11-01T03:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T19:21:59","slug":"joe-manganiello-will-never-give-up-hope-on-his-dd-dragonlance-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96815","title":{"rendered":"Joe Manganiello Will Never Give Up Hope on His D&D Dragonlance TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Joe Manganiello, one of the most famous Dungeons & Dragons players in Hollywood, said he still wants his Dragonlance TV series to come to fruition despite its cancellation several years ago.<\/p>\n

The Justice League and One Piece actor was hired as showrunner and screenwriter on the show years ago, promising a live-action adaptation of one of the stories that helped introduce him to tabletop role-playing. After a series of snags, though, Manganiello eventually went on to confirm that his live-action Dragonlance would no longer come to be.<\/p>\n

IGN asked Manganiello about his ill-fated D&D project during a conversation at Lucca Comics and Games 2026. He walked us through how, after five years of work, things fell apart, while also teasing that the door for a Dragonlance TV show \u2013 and even his documentary<\/u> \u2013 will never close.<\/p>\n

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“When both of those got put on the shelf due to a change of leadership \u2013 due to shuffling going on within [Entertainment One] \u2013 those projects became nobody’s child,” he explained. “I mean, I was hired by Michael Lombardo, who was my old boss at HBO. He hired me to create a television show, to create the next Game of Thrones for him, but then he was gone.<\/p>\n

“He’s my guy. He’s the guy who understood my pitch. He’s the one who believed in me. He’s the one who saw what it could be, and he’s gone. And then, my other producing partner, he was gone, too. So, the two people that I was there with are gone, and the people there had different ideas. All of a sudden, those things become the priority as I’m turning in my script. Now, my people aren’t there. Same with the documentary.”<\/p>\n

Manganiello went on to say that, as his hands-on time in the D&D universe began to fall apart, he had “nobody helping to fight with” him to bring then-in-development projects to life. With Dragonlance officially confirmed to be canned<\/u> in 2024, it was around this time the actor thought “OK, I’m out,” but as he told us, “there is new hope.”<\/p>\n

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Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen – Concept Art and Alternate Covers<\/h3>\n