D&D Movie/TV Chris Pine To Star In D&D Movie

The long, slow process towards a modern take on D&D movies took a large step forward with the announcement of a huge star signed to the project. Considering that filming is set to start soon a cascade of announcements should be revealed in initiative order imminently. Filming begins in Q1 2021.

Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley will be directing the film which features "an ensemble cast and take a subversive approach to the game."

Chris Pine In Talks To Star In ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ For eOne And Paramount; Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley Direct

Chris Pine To Star In 'Dungeons & Dragons'

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Chris Pine has closed a deal to star in Dungeons & Dragons, the live action film based on Hasbro’s massively popular role-playing game from Wizards of the Coast. Hasbro/eOne and Paramount are jointly producing and financing, with eOne distributing in the UK and Canada, and Paramount the rest of the world.

 

[Older Beholder]

One thing's for sure, after the recent 'Cats' film I doubt we're going to see any Tabaxi in the movie.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Well sure, people who don’t win the awards ever... have to find an issue with the process/awards/judges. It’s the only way they can justify to themselves why they aren’t being recognized like the others.

You mistake me. My feeing isn’t that I don’t read, like or rate fantasy books. I love them. Then again the whole point of an awards is to move away from individual tastes to a panel that crosses one one individual thinks. Same with Academy Awards, same with Golden Globes.

Incidentally the judges of these works aren’t typically hidebound idiots. Rather they are experts at the top of their game...

The Pulitzer Prizes

www.pulitzer.org

National Book Awards 2020 - National Book Foundation

www.nationalbook.org

The Nobel Committee for Literature - NobelPrize.org

www.nobelprize.org

You can be as scathing as you like about these experts though. It does you a disservice though and sounds more than a little bitter.

Oh goodness, no.

I'm sorry that you've been fooled into believing the elitist garbage that leads to genre fiction not being considered literature by people who should be smart enough to know better, but your acceptance of these "experts" is laughable, not laudable.

If you think that the Academy Awards or Golden Globes have any artistic value...I can't even begin to engage with a point of view so nonsensical. They are a couple of the worst award systems in the world of creative content. Utterly meaningless in every way.

Your first paragraph is almost offensively off base and steeped in deeply, deeply, elitist thinking. I...jfc I'm not gonna lie, if you really believe that we should stop this discussion, because I'd think less of someone as a person if they really buy that line of thinking. Forget almost, it is offensively elitist, but it's worse than that, too.

It's...akin to arguing that the women's US soccer team has to find a problem with the people who decide their pay because otherwise they couldn't justify to themselves how they get paid so much less than the men's team. Dismissing the possibility, much less the reality, that they are genuinely being treated unfairly.

I find the attitude, frankly, disgusting.

 

[Zardnaar]

Oh goodness, no.

I'm sorry that you've been fooled into believing the elitist garbage that leads to genre fiction not being considered literature by people who should be smart enough to know better, but your acceptance of these "experts" is laughable, not laudable.

If you think that the Academy Awards or Golden Globes have any artistic value...I can't even begin to engage with a point of view so nonsensical. They are a couple of the worst award systems in the world of creative content. Utterly meaningless in every way.

Your first paragraph is almost offensively off base and steeped in deeply, deeply, elitist thinking. I...jfc I'm not gonna lie, if you really believe that we should stop this discussion, because I'd think less of someone as a person if they really buy that line of thinking. Forget almost, it is offensively elitist, but it's worse than that, too.

It's...akin to arguing that the women's US soccer team has to find a problem with the people who decide their pay because otherwise they couldn't justify to themselves how they get paid so much less than the men's team. Dismissing the possibility, much less the reality, that they are genuinely being treated unfairly.

I find the attitude, frankly, disgusting.

I think critical acclaim is worth sod all myself. They're very out of touch imho.

Women's football is kind of fair, if they want to get paid equal they need to draw the same level of money. They don't ergo they get paid less.

Same arguements get made here with rugby. All Blacks draw money, women's rugby not so much.

Same theory applies to fantasy. Generally fantasy movies don't draw big money with the odd exception such as LotR.

Fantasy needs a similar budget to sci fi eg it's not cheap but it's harder to monetize.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Women's football is kind of fair, if they want to get paid equal they need to draw the same level of money. They don't ergo they get paid less.

The US Women's Soccer team brings in more money, wins more, and actually gets attention due to winning like crazy, while the mens' team struggles to compete at all.

 

[Don Durito]

What this tells me it that the people behind the movie recognise that Guardians of the Galaxy was the closest thing to a D&D movie that actually worked.

The worrying thing is that the casting of the same star suggests that's probably about all they have.

 

[Zardnaar]

The US Women's Soccer team brings in more money, wins more, and actually gets attention due to winning like crazy, while the mens' team struggles to compete at all.

If they are bringing in more money as well yeah that needs looked at.

Is that at the gate or with advertising though?

 

[doctorbadwolf]

If they are bringing in more money as well yeah that needs looked at.

Is that at the gate or with advertising though?

Total. Which is what matters. Everything else is just ways to find excuses to support the status quo.

 

[Zardnaar]

Total. Which is what matters. Everything else is just ways to find excuses to support the status quo.

Yeah that's not fair.

 

[TheSword]

Oh goodness, no.

I'm sorry that you've been fooled into believing the elitist garbage that leads to genre fiction not being considered literature by people who should be smart enough to know better, but your acceptance of these "experts" is laughable, not laudable.

I didn’t post links to the judges of the Oscars or Globes, but f the literary awards. I looked at the National Book Award panel, they were all writers, pretty good ones by all accounts. Pulitzers mainly writers and top newspaper editors. Didn’t recognize the Nobel prize dudes, they’re all Swedish. But apparently a Nobel Prize is pretty good. I don’t here the chemists sayin the prize is elitist.

I think you have some kind of old fashioned views if you think these panels aren’t representative. It reminds of the quotes from some individuals who ‘people aren’t interested in what experts think’. I don’t really buy into that anti-expert rhetoric. You may disagree with them but objecting on principle to what an expert says is just a bit weird.

If you think that the Academy Awards or Golden Globes have any artistic value...I can't even begin to engage with a point of view so nonsensical. They are a couple of the worst award systems in the world of creative content. Utterly meaningless in every way.

And yet the directors, producers and actors all attend.

Your first paragraph is almost offensively off base and steeped in deeply, deeply, elitist thinking. I...jfc I'm not gonna lie, if you really believe that we should stop this discussion, because I'd think less of someone as a person if they really buy that line of thinking. Forget almost, it is offensively elitist, but it's worse than that, too.

I’m happy to stop discussing this. However
kinda off asking to stop then making a parting shot.

It's...akin to arguing that the women's US soccer team has to find a problem with the people who decide their pay because otherwise they couldn't justify to themselves how they get paid so much less than the men's team. Dismissing the possibility, much less the reality, that they are genuinely being treated unfairly.

I find the attitude, frankly, disgusting.

How odd to compare literary prize awards to women’s pay? Half the panel are women. Anyone can be nominated, there’s no apparent bias against any particular nationality or ethnicity (just fantasy authors apparently). It sounds like you’re kind of exaggerating quite heavily there.

Ive already said bias against fantasy isn’t my personal feeling. Not that pay is any way the same as an award.

Though I’m ready to drop it when you are.

 

[Richards]

What this tells me it that the people behind the movie recognise that Guardians of the Galaxy was the closest thing to a D&D movie that actually worked.

The worrying thing is that the casting of the same star suggests that's probably about all they have.

Chris Pine played James T. Kirk in the remade Star Trek movies.

Chris Pratt played Star Lord in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.

Are you conflating the two into the same person? Because while I'd be willing to believe a transporter malfunction could scramble them into one being (see "Tuvix"), you'd first have to get them into the same universe to begin with.

Johnathan