As most of you probably know, an upcoming d&d movie is slated to hit theaters in 2021. It's still in the planning stages (a sure director hasn't even been cast,) but some information has been thrown out. Here's what we know:
1. Paramount Pictures is most likely the studio. This could change, (originally, Warner Bros. was slated to do it) but is, at this point, a paramount film.
2. Chris McKay, who directed the critically acclaimed Lego Movies is slated to direct the film, according to Variety. ( I also heard that Rob Letterman, who directed Goosebumps, could write it.)
3. Michael Gillio will probably write the script.
4. They are apparently looking for a "Vin Diesel type" to play the main role, but aren't casting him. (Despite Vin being a real-life D&D player.)
5. Ansel Engort, who was in the well-reviewed "Baby Driver," will maybe play the lead role.
6. The Movie will most likely take place in the Forgotten Realms Universe.
7. The movie will showcase new characters to the universe, rather then using an existing party such as Drizzt and his party.
8. It's being produced by Allspark pictures, Hasbro's own production company.
Here's my thoughts on this:
1. Meh. Paramount has made some great movies, as well as some terrible ones. It's hard to make generalizations with such a big studio.
2. They're both good directors, but they seem to make mainly movies for the family. I feel like the D&D movie should be a more Action-Packed, PG-13 film rather then a fun fantasy romp that the whole family can enjoy.
3. I don't know much about this guy, but from what IDMB tells me, most of his movies have pretty good reviews. Okay.
4. Okay. Nothing much to say about this one. That's probably code for "human fighter or barbarian."
5. Most of his movies got pretty good reviews, but I don't see him as a Vin-Diesel type. Maybe the guy Vin Diesel shouts something around the lines of "IN ENGLISH, POINDEXTER" at, following his technobabble.
6. Seems good. It was pretty much inevitable anyways.
7. This is alright. I feel that most non-Drizzt forgotten realms books are not well known enough to be in a movie, and Drizzt would be more suited to a TV show anyway, thanks to the massive amount of lore about him.
8. Hmm... There has apparently been some reinventing in the company, which is good, thanks to their abysmal track record. They mainly made 30-minute direct to DVD short films, the terrible G.I. Joe movie in 2009, the terrible Jem and the Holograms movie in 2015, the BATTLESHIP movie, which is real. They made a movie about blindly shooting pegs at a grid. It, obviously, won an Oscar for Best Picture. Kidding. It sucked.
All in all, I'm excited for the movie, and my main worry is about the production studio.
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All I can say is that it can't possibly be worse than the one with Jeremy Irons, as enjoyable as his performance was. That said, a D&D movie would be very similar to a video game movie, and those haven't worked out well.
I hear Joe Manganiello was trying to get a good movie made at one point. We'll hear if he was involved in this one, and if it worked, soon enough.
I think that what separates a D&D movie from a video game movie is that a video game is based a set story, as opposed to D&D (or any tabletop game, for that matter.) On a side note, I heard that the party will have a half-dragon in it, according to the article I got most of this from. Interesting that one of the heroes in the movie is a member of a race we still can't play as. (Although I guess Half-Dragon could be newb-speak for Dragonborn.)
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4 movies already made by different companies... Only one... 4th one book of vile darkness was actually decent... Not great mind you... So yeah they are not gonna make it great... Its gonna suck really...
Its been tryed... Its been done... Let it go !
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I'm trying to excited about this and all I can say is, meh. This sounds entirely franchise driven rather than story driven. I mean sure, it'll have a story, tacked on and squeezed in to fit the franchise. Got to agree with @DnDPaladin on this one. (Sing with me) "Let it go."
Yeah, one big worry I have is that if it's bad, whenever I mention D&D in a conversation, some idiot will say "You mean that sucky movie that came out a little while ago? What did they do, make a video game?"
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Cue another sterile, politically-correct attempt to cash in on the popularity of GoT. (Popular because it was anything but sterile and politically correct?)
Yeah. I'm not pushing for an NC-17 ultraviolent overly-sexual movie, but come on. It should be at least PG-13, like most actual D&D campaigns, books, etc.
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Cue another sterile, politically-correct attempt to cash in on the popularity of GoT. (Popular because it was anything but sterile and politically correct?)
Then again GoT is a poor attempt at fantasy to begin with. So i dont think its gonna be hard to top that. Ill say if its not similar to lord of the ring with better magics and better characterisation. Then it wont be anything.
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IMO rather than making a D&D movie they should make a good Fantasy movie...AFTER it's good call it D&D: [Fantasy Movie Title Here]
I personally don't care if a movie is D&D or not. I just want a great story. If they try to shoehorn stuff into a D&D format so they can have a "D&D movie" it will probably end up crap... as evidenced by past attempts.
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Its actually what i was hoping for in a great d&d movie.
Imagine a game where players actually play their characters. There would be them at the table and then them inside the game. Imagine larps meets sucker punch !!! Now that would be a great movie for me.
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IMO rather than making a D&D movie they should make a good Fantasy movie...AFTER it's good call it D&D: [Fantasy Movie Title Here]
I personally don't care if a movie is D&D or not. I just want a great story. If they try to shoehorn stuff into a D&D format so they can have a "D&D movie" it will probably end up crap... as evidenced by past attempts.
If the writer doesn't have a firm grasp of D&D, and know which edition of it he is writing about, then Comic Book Guy and most people here (citation needed) will spend the next ten years explaining to everybody all the myriad ways the film got it wrong, all the while ignoring the first rule of D&D.
The "Warcraft" movie was fairly poor, and missed a great number of opportunities, but again it was a film more worried about avoiding offending anybody and having heroes with modern morals and ethics*, than it was about the violent world of Azeroth.
It needs to be directed by Tarantino and written by Steve McHugh.
*Fairly sure of this, but only watched it once.
Edit: I'd be happier if they just left the "D&D" part out of the title.
IMO rather than making a D&D movie they should make a good Fantasy movie...AFTER it's good call it D&D: [Fantasy Movie Title Here]
I personally don't care if a movie is D&D or not. I just want a great story. If they try to shoehorn stuff into a D&D format so they can have a "D&D movie" it will probably end up crap... as evidenced by past attempts.
If the writer doesn't have a firm grasp of D&D, and know which edition of it he is writing about, then Comic Book Guy and most people here (citation needed) will spend the next ten years explaining to everybody all the myriad ways the film got it wrong, all the while ignoring the first rule of D&D.
The "Warcraft" movie was fairly poor, and missed a great number of opportunities, but again it was a film more worried about avoiding offending anybody and having heroes with modern morals and ethics*, than it was about the violent world of Azeroth.
It needs to be directed by Tarantino and written by Steve McHugh.
*Fairly sure of this, but only watched it once.
Warcraft was literally the first and second games literally leading into the third game. I liked it a lot. Seems to me what you wanted was world of warcraft. Warcraft was an awesome movie well made great effects. Magic well portrayed and best of all seen by both sides. The only thing they missed on was the love between human and orc.
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I always think movies like these are great but I agree with all of you saying they ruin it just because they're never entirely sure the way they need to include or exclude information.
I'm curious as to how they'll do character developement. Are they planning on the characters being lvl 20? Are the characters going on a journey gaining experience going from level 1-3/5? I could definitely see some cool things happening here.
As for characters I hope they develope a polearm master variant human with sentinel and battle master, that would be an excellent leader/defender type character and you'd be able to see some good combat shenanigans with them.
Adding a bard would be great for comedic purposes.
You're going to need a wizard to have some cool magic abilities shown whether it's helping allies, messing with NPCs, or defeating enemies.
You'll also need a cleric (as an obvious magical caster that will heal their comapanions, they'll probably pick a girl for this role)
You'll want a rouge for a sneaky, ninja like character that I'm sure many would appreciate and enjoy.
As for races the majority of the party will need to be human but you'll want 2 or 3 non human species. One being a small character such as a dwarf or halfling and the others bigger, maybe a turned half or a dragonborn. The other could be a tieflin/elf (anything really).
Story for the party would be that they're all cast-outs from their respected society and come together and form a companionship. Eventually they get caught up in some trouble that threatens the world. They'll take it upon themselves to save the world while questioning what the world has ever done for them. At the end after they save the world everyone is happening and now look upon the party as honors heroes.
IMO rather than making a D&D movie they should make a good Fantasy movie...AFTER it's good call it D&D: [Fantasy Movie Title Here]
I personally don't care if a movie is D&D or not. I just want a great story. If they try to shoehorn stuff into a D&D format so they can have a "D&D movie" it will probably end up crap... as evidenced by past attempts.
If the writer doesn't have a firm grasp of D&D, and know which edition of it he is writing about, then Comic Book Guy and most people here (citation needed) will spend the next ten years explaining to everybody all the myriad ways the film got it wrong, all the while ignoring the first rule of D&D.
The "Warcraft" movie was fairly poor, and missed a great number of opportunities, but again it was a film more worried about avoiding offending anybody and having heroes with modern morals and ethics*, than it was about the violent world of Azeroth.
It needs to be directed by Tarantino and written by Steve McHugh.
*Fairly sure of this, but only watched it once.
Warcraft was literally the first and second games literally leading into the third game. I liked it a lot. Seems to me what you wanted was world of warcraft. Warcraft was an awesome movie well made great effects. Magic well portrayed and best of all seen by both sides. The only thing they missed on was the love between human and orc.
I didn't see Warcraft, but from what critics say, a big part of the problem was that they tried to make a fantasy epic based on a franchise that was always more about having fun rather than being epic. Seeing as D&D can be almost any tone, from humor (CR, The Adventure Zone) to fantasy epic (Most home campaigns), that shouldn't be a huge issue. However, the one tone it absolutely should not be, as The_Plundered_Tombs said, is an overly "nice" PG-Rated Family Fun Adventure.
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Warcraft was literally the first and second games literally leading into the third game. I liked it a lot. Seems to me what you wanted was world of warcraft. Warcraft was an awesome movie well made great effects. Magic well portrayed and best of all seen by both sides. The only thing they missed on was the love between human and orc.
You got that right! My knowledge of the Warcraft games is sketchy (OK- almost non-existant!). I watched the film expecting it to be based heavily on the MMO, as that surely is the Blizzard Flagship unless you live in Korea. To me it was dumbed down. I do keep meaning to watch it again, but my attention span for films is not what it once was.
Fantasy films do seem to be getting better (overall). Ironically technology is a main reason for this.
Anyone interested in kick-starting a project for Legend (with Mickey Rourke or Samuel L Jackson as Druss)? I reckon $150 Million should cover it. (To keep costs down, I will be co-directing with some newly graduated film-student.)
IMO rather than making a D&D movie they should make a good Fantasy movie...AFTER it's good call it D&D: [Fantasy Movie Title Here]
I personally don't care if a movie is D&D or not. I just want a great story. If they try to shoehorn stuff into a D&D format so they can have a "D&D movie" it will probably end up crap... as evidenced by past attempts.
I think a big problem with that is that it could sorta alienate existing players. You know how actual nerds tend to dislike the show "Big Bang Theory" because of all the stuff it gets wrong? The same thing applies here. This is definitely the most "safe" option, in terms of success with general audiences and critics, but the existing community is important as well. I'm hoping for a sweet spot: Enough normal fantasy stuff to appeal to general audiences, but a good amount of references to d&d to show we aren't forgotten. At the very least, it should be in an existing d&d setting, like Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, or Eberron.
As most of you probably know, an upcoming d&d movie is slated to hit theaters in 2021. It's still in the planning stages (a sure director hasn't even been cast,) but some information has been thrown out. Here's what we know:
1. Paramount Pictures is most likely the studio. This could change, (originally, Warner Bros. was slated to do it) but is, at this point, a paramount film.
2. Chris McKay, who directed the critically acclaimed Lego Movies is slated to direct the film, according to Variety. ( I also heard that Rob Letterman, who directed Goosebumps, could write it.)
3. Michael Gillio will probably write the script.
4. They are apparently looking for a "Vin Diesel type" to play the main role, but aren't casting him. (Despite Vin being a real-life D&D player.)
5. Ansel Engort, who was in the well-reviewed "Baby Driver," will maybe play the lead role.
6. The Movie will most likely take place in the Forgotten Realms Universe.
7. The movie will showcase new characters to the universe, rather then using an existing party such as Drizzt and his party.
8. It's being produced by Allspark pictures, Hasbro's own production company.
Here's my thoughts on this:
1. Meh. Paramount has made some great movies, as well as some terrible ones. It's hard to make generalizations with such a big studio.
2. They're both good directors, but they seem to make mainly movies for the family. I feel like the D&D movie should be a more Action-Packed, PG-13 film rather then a fun fantasy romp that the whole family can enjoy.
3. I don't know much about this guy, but from what IDMB tells me, most of his movies have pretty good reviews. Okay.
4. Okay. Nothing much to say about this one. That's probably code for "human fighter or barbarian."
5. Most of his movies got pretty good reviews, but I don't see him as a Vin-Diesel type. Maybe the guy Vin Diesel shouts something around the lines of "IN ENGLISH, POINDEXTER" at, following his technobabble.
6. Seems good. It was pretty much inevitable anyways.
7. This is alright. I feel that most non-Drizzt forgotten realms books are not well known enough to be in a movie, and Drizzt would be more suited to a TV show anyway, thanks to the massive amount of lore about him.
8. Hmm... There has apparently been some reinventing in the company, which is good, thanks to their abysmal track record. They mainly made 30-minute direct to DVD short films, the terrible G.I. Joe movie in 2009, the terrible Jem and the Holograms movie in 2015, the BATTLESHIP movie, which is real. They made a movie about blindly shooting pegs at a grid. It, obviously, won an Oscar for Best Picture. Kidding. It sucked.
All in all, I'm excited for the movie, and my main worry is about the production studio.
All I can say is that it can't possibly be worse than the one with Jeremy Irons, as enjoyable as his performance was. That said, a D&D movie would be very similar to a video game movie, and those haven't worked out well.
I hear Joe Manganiello was trying to get a good movie made at one point. We'll hear if he was involved in this one, and if it worked, soon enough.
I think that what separates a D&D movie from a video game movie is that a video game is based a set story, as opposed to D&D (or any tabletop game, for that matter.) On a side note, I heard that the party will have a half-dragon in it, according to the article I got most of this from. Interesting that one of the heroes in the movie is a member of a race we still can't play as. (Although I guess Half-Dragon could be newb-speak for Dragonborn.)
All i can say...
4 movies already made by different companies... Only one... 4th one book of vile darkness was actually decent... Not great mind you... So yeah they are not gonna make it great... Its gonna suck really...
Its been tryed... Its been done... Let it go !
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I'm trying to excited about this and all I can say is, meh. This sounds entirely franchise driven rather than story driven. I mean sure, it'll have a story, tacked on and squeezed in to fit the franchise. Got to agree with @DnDPaladin on this one. (Sing with me) "Let it go."
Yeah, one big worry I have is that if it's bad, whenever I mention D&D in a conversation, some idiot will say "You mean that sucky movie that came out a little while ago? What did they do, make a video game?"
Vote for Sam Riegel as the Vin Diesel type character! Perfect fit!
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Good god yes. Also, Profion should make a return.
Cue another sterile, politically-correct attempt to cash in on the popularity of GoT. (Popular because it was anything but sterile and politically correct?)
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Yeah. I'm not pushing for an NC-17 ultraviolent overly-sexual movie, but come on. It should be at least PG-13, like most actual D&D campaigns, books, etc.
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IMO rather than making a D&D movie they should make a good Fantasy movie...AFTER it's good call it D&D: [Fantasy Movie Title Here]
I personally don't care if a movie is D&D or not. I just want a great story. If they try to shoehorn stuff into a D&D format so they can have a "D&D movie" it will probably end up crap... as evidenced by past attempts.
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Dungeons and Dragons the movie, featuring: THE CAST FROM CRITICAL ROLE!
Just kidding, but imagine if D&D ended up making a movie based on the cast, characters, and story from the first critical role season.
Its actually what i was hoping for in a great d&d movie.
Imagine a game where players actually play their characters. There would be them at the table and then them inside the game. Imagine larps meets sucker punch !!! Now that would be a great movie for me.
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I always think movies like these are great but I agree with all of you saying they ruin it just because they're never entirely sure the way they need to include or exclude information.
I'm curious as to how they'll do character developement. Are they planning on the characters being lvl 20? Are the characters going on a journey gaining experience going from level 1-3/5? I could definitely see some cool things happening here.
As for characters I hope they develope a polearm master variant human with sentinel and battle master, that would be an excellent leader/defender type character and you'd be able to see some good combat shenanigans with them.
Adding a bard would be great for comedic purposes.
You're going to need a wizard to have some cool magic abilities shown whether it's helping allies, messing with NPCs, or defeating enemies.
You'll also need a cleric (as an obvious magical caster that will heal their comapanions, they'll probably pick a girl for this role)
You'll want a rouge for a sneaky, ninja like character that I'm sure many would appreciate and enjoy.
As for races the majority of the party will need to be human but you'll want 2 or 3 non human species. One being a small character such as a dwarf or halfling and the others bigger, maybe a turned half or a dragonborn. The other could be a tieflin/elf (anything really).
Story for the party would be that they're all cast-outs from their respected society and come together and form a companionship. Eventually they get caught up in some trouble that threatens the world. They'll take it upon themselves to save the world while questioning what the world has ever done for them. At the end after they save the world everyone is happening and now look upon the party as honors heroes.
My knowledge of the Warcraft games is sketchy (OK- almost non-existant!). I watched the film expecting it to be based heavily on the MMO, as that surely is the Blizzard Flagship unless you live in Korea.
To me it was dumbed down.
I do keep meaning to watch it again, but my attention span for films is not what it once was.
I reckon $150 Million should cover it. (To keep costs down, I will be co-directing with some newly graduated film-student.)
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