D&D 5E D&D movie, take note...

Bardbarian said:

The idea is that it should be a story not something that looks like an adaptation of a game. Using comic movies as an example. When they add thought bubbles and frames like Ang Lee's Hulk or Suicide squad, you are reminded that what you are watching has low stakes because it it framed outside a reality inherent to its own existence. If the D&D film goes out of its way to call characters by class names like "lets us seek the druid to cast spirit guardians" its not how people talk and it draws us out of the narrative. Do you ever say let's go see Dave the mechanic when you go to Dave's house? no you say "lets go to Dave's place" This practice of callin out game elements makes storytellin awkward. Instead they need to treat the material as if the categories and names in the rule books don't exist and rather the people in those stories have their own definitions. Think of it as they are not selling the property of D&D but the world of Greyhawk, and guess what? That world exists in the D&D fold. So the D&D product is a delivery device for the story elements they actually cared about form the movie.

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ad_hoc said:

I think the Guardians of the Galaxy template is perfect for a D&D movie.

The GotG were a completely unknown C-list comic book property before their movie. The plot is mediocre at best; they're out to get a MacGuffin and stop Mr. Evil Twirling Moustache.

It's the dynamics between the characters and fun tone of it that made it good.

That's all a D&D movie needs. A party of likeable characters.

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Henry said:

The first Guardians movie had several things going for it:

-Strength of vision. Gunn and crew had a very strong idea for what came out, from the music, to the characterizations, to the humor. A movie with too many competing visions becomes a muddled mess or too formulaic, as in the case of half the movies that get made.

-Likeable Characters (and decent actors who like them, too) - No argument there.

-A hell of a good editor who knows what the strengths of a certain movie are, what to cut and what makes a story keep moving.

I think Guardians either lucked out, or had the resources to have these things, or (more likely) both.

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GMforPowergamers said:

I was thinking to keep the cost down, special effects for dragons, magic, and everything else can get pricey...but animated is way cheaper.

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Enevhar Aldarion said:

This whole movie thing has moved way to the back burner for me for now because Amazon has activated the Twitter account for their LotR series and started posting teasers on it.

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