Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

[Bowser]

[Bowser]

They've never really ever been able to get a D&D movie /show quite right, but I'm curious about this one. Decent looking cast, and I've been in lustlove with Michelle Rodriguez for a couple of decades now.

[staylor26]

Looks like it could actually be pretty good/fun.

[mnchiefsguy]

While this looks far from a fantasy masterpiece...it looks like it could be a lotta fun.

[Indian Chief]

Cautiously optimistic. Either it's going to be pretty good, or they made a great trailer that has the best parts of the movie.

[ModSocks]

Pfff. Dungeons and Dragons is for nerds. Imma go play some Warcraft.

[Why Not?]

Looks fun. I'm in!

[DrunkBassGuitar]

I made my friends go see the D&D movie that came out in like 2002 maybe.

They were pissed that I made them go see it lol

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by DrunkBassGuitar

I made my friends go see the D&D movie that came out in like 2002 maybe.

They were pissed that I made them go see it lol

Wasn't one of the Wayans brothers in that? That flick was an absolute turd, haha.

[DrunkBassGuitar]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Wasn't one of the Wayans brothers in that? That flick was an absolute turd, haha.

yeah it was real bad. The Wayans brother played it like it was a comedy though.

I kept leaning over to my friend and telling him how good the movie was about 15 minutes in lol

[Bowser]

I don't think I'm going out on a limb when I say the best D&D material put out there to date is the 80's cartoon series.

[Sure-Oz]

Looks entertaining

[Just Passin' By]

The problem with trying to make a D&D movie is LOTR. LOTR is the fully developed world from which basically any D&D movie would spring, but LOTR is an established world with patient fans. They know that LOTR isn't coming together in 90 minutes, so there's built in forgiveness.

But a D&D movie needs to create a world, have its quest and resolution, and show a good time with magic and monsters, do it well enough to stand on its own and pull in an audience, and do that in 90-120 minutes. After all, very few people are going to want to watch a 90 minute movie that's just a dungeon, or just a D&D city, scenario.

[DrunkBassGuitar]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

The problem with trying to make a D&D movie is LOTR. LOTR is the fully developed world from which basically any D&D movie would spring, but LOTR is an established world with patient fans. They know that LOTR isn't coming together in 90 minutes, so there's built in forgiveness.

But a D&D movie needs to create a world, have its quest and resolution, and show a good time with magic and monsters, do it well enough to stand on its own and pull in an audience, and do that in 90-120 minutes. After all, very few people are going to want to watch a 90 minute movie that's just a dungeon, or just a D&D city, scenario.

yeah that's basically right.

I saw someone on twitter suggest they should like lean into the fact that's it a game and wink at the audience. like have an actor play one character, then die and then the next scene have the same actor play a different character. or have a character go missing for a scene because he's off "doing an adventure somewhere else" and then show up in the next scene.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by DrunkBassGuitar

yeah that's basically right.

I saw someone on twitter suggest they should like lean into the fact that's it a game and wink at the audience. like have an actor play one character, then die and then the next scene have the same actor play a different character. or have a character go missing for a scene because he's off "doing an adventure somewhere else" and then show up in the next scene.

Sure.


Or, assuming they could get the financial backing, they could come forward with a multi-film set up already in hand. As you've likely seen here, the target audience might well accept a choppier first installment knowing that threads could be tied together in the second/third/whatever movie. But that would run the risk of huge losses if the movies didn't succeed.