Hasbro’s eOne U-Turn: Behind Toymaker’s Decision To Sell Indie Film & TV Studio & What’s Next
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deadline.comAfter more than a year and a half of development, eOne recently started shopping its Dungeons & Dragons live-action TV series.
Shepherded by Red Notice filmmaker Rawson Marshall Thurber, it is based on Hasbro’s wildly popular fantasy role-playing game franchise.
The series was conceived as eOne’s priciest, largest-scope projects ever, a drama that would demonstrate the full potential of Hasbro’s 2019 acquisition of the indie film and TV studio.
It started garnering bids and all seemed to be going according to plan — until the process was interrupted yesterday by the toymaker’s announcement that it plans to sell eOne’s film and TV businesses.
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