expired. In 2015, Warner Brothers announced they had reached a settlement with Hasbro's Allspark Pictures and Sweetpea Entertainment over rights and a new movie was in the works. As a result of the settlement, Hasbro transferred rights to Paramount Pictures by 2017. Chris McKay was originally brought on in February 2018 to direct the film, but was replaced by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley in July 2019. In December 2020, Chris Pine was cast to star in the film; then in March 2021, Hugh Grant was cast as the antagonist. Daley announced in August 2021 that filming had been completed; the movie, titled Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, is currently scheduled to be released in March 2023. In January 2022, Deadline reported that Hasbro's eOne was developing a live action D&D series with Rawson Marshall Thurber writing and directing the pilot. In January 2023, Deadline reported that Paramount+ gave this series an eight-episode, straight-to-series order. It will be co-produced by eOne and Paramount Pictures with Thurber directing the first episode. Documentary In October 2022, Hasbro's eOne announced that it was creating a documentary on Dungeons & Dragons which will be timed to release with the 50th anniversary of the game in 2024. Joe Manganiello and Kyle Newman will co-direct; Manganiello will also produce along with Nick Manganiello, Anthony Savini and Cecily Tyler. Variety reported that "the film will incorporate more than 400 hours of archived, never-before-seen Dungeons & Dragons footage from the game's creation in the early 1970s. It will also include interviews with celebrity fans of the game". Computer and video games Many unique digital games had been released and sold under the D&D license. A significant number of these games were published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI). Most, but not all, are role-playing video games that use rules derived from some version of the D&D rules. Many of the games were released on multiple platforms, including personal computers, consoles, and handheld devices (including mobile phones). Novels Several hundred novels have been published based upon Dungeons & Dragons. Fantasy Grand Master Andre Norton's novel Quag Keep, published in 1979, was set in Greyhawk, making it the first novel to use a D&D campaign setting. Throughout the early 1980s, TSR printed several series of gamebooks of varying complexity under series titles such as Endless Quest, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Gamebooks, HeartQuest, and 1 on 1 Adventure Gamebooks.