According to its own co-director, the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie has started filming."The campaign begins," writer/director Jonathan Goldstein wrote on Twitter alongside a picture of the movie's clapperboard confirming the film kicked off principal photography on April 29.RELATED: Paramount Shifts Top Gun: Maverick, Snake Eyes, Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 Release Dates

While a critically-reviled live-action film adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons was released in 2000, a new cinematic take on the property has been in development for years. At various points, the reboot had individuals like Chris Morgan, Rob Letterman and Chris McKay attached as directors.

The film is being directed by Spider-Man: Homecoming screenwriters Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. Previously, the duo expressed ambitions to imbue Dungeons & Dragons with a tone that balances comedy with engaging adventure. "We want it to be fun," Goldstein explained. "It's not an out and out comedy, but it is an action-fantasy movie with a lot of comedic elements and characters we hope people will really get into and enjoy watching their adventures."

"D&D is such a unique look at the fantasy genre where it is contemporary in terms of the people playing it and the way they speak to each other," Daley continued. "So we never wanted to spoof the genre of fantasy or take the piss out of it. But we did want to find another way into it that we hadn't necessarily seen before."

Written and directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, Dungeons & Dragons stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith, Regé-Jean Page, Hugh Grant, Sophia Lillis and Chloe Coleman. The film arrives in theaters March 3, 2023.

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