Dragon's Lair finally gets a director alongside Deadpool and Wolverine star Ryan Reynolds – five years after it was first announced

Dirk in Dragon's Lair
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The Ryan Reynolds-starring adaptation of🍷 1980s arcade classic Dragon's Lair has finally found its director – some five years after the movie was first announced.

As revealed by the , Muppets Most Wanted director James Bobin is taking a step inside the castle for the upcoming Netflix film, with his eye for kinetic, cartoonish action surely a perfect fit for Dragon's🍸 Lair.

First released in 1983, the titl🥂e received a reputation as an ultra-difficult arcade game that gobbled quarters. During gameplay, players were tasked with controlling Dirk the Daring's actions on his quest to rescue Princess Daphne.

Players, though, were often met with humorous and exceptionally animꦺated death sequences, including being squished by rolling traps or electrocuted.

Reynolds is set to play chivalrous knight Dirk in the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming video game movie, but little else is known about the project, save for comments last yea🅺r from one producer suggesting that the film had undergone some reconfiguration. Sadly, it seems to ♑be moving away from its grander ambitions, ones that would've mirrored Dragon Lair's heyday.

"The status has changed a lot," Roy Lee said during a SDCC panel last year (via ). "Originally, it was gonna be one of the movies that was gonna be like a choose-your-own-adventure. Like that Black Mirror episode where you could decide the fate of the characters, and that's the way we had originally developed it. We had a 400-page script because you could go different directions and go different ways, and Ryan Reynolds was gonna play✅ Dirk the Daring, but they pulled the plug on that format. Now we're reconfiguring it as a straight, linear movie."

For more, check out the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming movies headed your way very soon.

I'm the Senior Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, focusing on news, features, and interviews with some of the biggest names in film and TV. On-site, you'll find me marveling at Marvel and providing analysis and room temperature takes on the newest films, Star Wars and, of course, anime. Outside of GR, I love getting lost in a good 10🐬0-hour JRPG, Warzone, and kicking back on the (virtual) field with Football Manager. My work has also been featured in OPM, FourFourTwo, and Game▨ Revolution.

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