https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/01/dungeons-and-dragons-movie-stranger-things-paramount-jonathan-goldstein-john-francis-daley

There’s never been a decent film of the classic game. With Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley on board, let’s hope Paramount gets this one right

Many children of the 70s and 80s witnessed Dungeons & Dragons for the first time not by rifling through Rockholme with curmudgeonly dwarves, or venturing into Old Castle Greyhawk to fend off orcs and hobgoblins with the use of polyhedral dice, but watching the 1982 Steven Spielberg film ET, in which our hero, Elliot, desperately vies to be involved in a game that his older brother Michael is playing with his snarky teenage pals in their front room.