Are we on the cusp of a Tabletop Hollywood moment?

[RivetGeekWil]

Oh! Good to hear. Wonder if it will ever actually be released...

Warp Films is supposed to be developing it, though I haven't seen any news since the announcement.

 

[payn]

Someone missed the 90s metaplot craze...

Yes, the 99% of movie goers that dont play TTRPGs.

 

[RivetGeekWil]

No. The big problem is that Tabletop games don't have a "story".

Comics, like novels, are easy pickings for making a movie. You have tons of story to pick from. The first third of the Iron Man movie is the basic first Iron Man comic story, The other 2/3 of the movie is a re-imagining of another Iron Man story or two. And a lot of the 'work' of the story is done by Iron Mans huge back story.

Take Shadowrun....ok, there is no story, it's just a game. You can write something where some characters run through the shadows as part of some plot and tell a story. But is that a "Shadowrun" story then?

Even if you just name drop people and places from the game lore, is it a "game" movie then?

We have had several Board Game and Video Game movies over the years......most are not all that "true" to the game.

I'd love to see the explanation for how RPG novelizations work...

 

[Ryujin]

That's silly and short-sighted. "Hollywood moment" is an idiom. An aside from TV, the fact that Cyberpunk was adapted - faithfully - into a AAA video game is just as big of an accomplishment if not bigger. And then, on top of that, had a Netflix series based on it? That's not something to brush off.

As I said, it's explicitly the discussion at hand. If you see that as "short sighted", then so be it.

 

[overgeeked]

Finally dug up an article.

Cool. Thanks. Though to be fair, their reasoning wasn't as you suggested. It was because kids wanted to play with toys of Iron Man more than any other character, as per the article. So really nothing to do with "protecting" other more-popular characters.

 

[RivetGeekWil]

As I said, it's explicitly the discussion at hand. If you see that as "short sighted", then so be it.

The discussion at hand, as I see it, is if there will be an increase in television shows and movies based on TTRPGs. "Hollywood," in this case, is an abstraction - locality has little to do with entertainment production, especially now, and many successful shows and movies come out of studios worldwide. Saying, "It's from Japan" or "It's anime" doesn't mean crap when Miyazaki's next film is financed through Studio Ghibli's deal with HBO.

 

[Reynard]

Yes, the 99% of movie goers that dont play TTRPGs.

I was just referencing how RPGs can have stories built into them.
Frankly, it is pretty funny how so many people are just completely ignoring the possibility of the idea even though Hasbro is itself betting big on the success of the D&D movie -- which according to you all couldn't even have a story, let alone be successful.

For the cheap seats: I am not making a 1:1 comparison between comic book movies and movies based on tabletop games. i am saying that there's an interesting possibility that a lot of real cool properties that have a lot of potential for success might actually finally get some love because of a few successes.

 

[Reynard]

Cool. Thanks. Though to be fair, their reasoning wasn't as you suggested. It was because kids wanted to play with toys of Iron Man more than any other character, as per the article. So really nothing to do with "protecting" other more-popular characters.

I was just pointing out that Marvel considered him a second or third tier character at the time.

 

[payn]

I was just referencing how RPGs can have stories built into them.
Frankly, it is pretty funny how so many people are just completely ignoring the possibility of the idea even though Hasbro is itself betting big on the success of the D&D movie -- which according to you all couldn't even have a story, let alone be successful.

For the cheap seats: I am not making a 1:1 comparison between comic book movies and movies based on tabletop games. i am saying that there's an interesting possibility that a lot of real cool properties that have a lot of potential for success might actually finally get some love because of a few successes.

Nobody is saying these things cant make good stories and be successful. Though, becoming the new comic book culture is an impossible bar for TTRPGs. Not even comic books can do it more than once (DC continually fails).

 

[overgeeked]

I was just pointing out that Marvel considered him a second or third tier character at the time.

Huh. The article doesn't support that. The article writer states that Iron Man was second- or third-tier. The quoted film historian notes that Marvel was surprised by the kids' choice of wanting to play with Iron Man toys more than any other character, but there's no support in the article for the notion that Marvel execs, etc, thought of the character as second tier.