If we were to see a new and better D&D movie, what setting would you like it to be?
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Well if they would do one generic fantasy setting, they should do Forgotten Realms. It's pretty much the maximalist of kitchen sink fantasy tropes. Greyhawk just seems inferior to FR and Dragonlance looks purely medieval (though the dragon army is what makes it so unique). Just my opinion.
jonesy
A Wicked Kendragon
I always thought what makes it unique was that it's a setting which is struggling towards neutrality. Where extremes of good and evil are held as examples of things to avoid. You know, like the kingpriests and the dragonarmies. But I guess that doesn't translate that well.
Well it includes other settings like Mystara, Birthright, Al' Qa'dim, Blackmoor, etc.
Spelljamer has mostly been done already (Treasure Planet) with poor box office results. Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms are almost too generic to differentiate from the successful Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
My choice: Dark Sun
Would would Hollywood least likely to screw up?
Hollywood has put out some decent noir films. Hollywood struggles with fantasy movies, though. I would have to say Eberron. Emphasize the hard-boiled detective, the plucky sidekick and the tough-and-hot lady in Sharn. You can have magic and monsters, but the mystery should be primary.
Then you might have a half-decent Hollywood blockbuster on your hands. Otherwise anything more complicated get muddled in group think.
My choice: Dark Sun
Would would Hollywood least likely to screw up?
Hollywood has put out some decent noir films. Hollywood struggles with fantasy movies, though. I would have to say Eberron. Emphasize the hard-boiled detective, the plucky sidekick and the tough-and-hot lady in Sharn. You can have magic and monsters, but the mystery should be primary.
Then you might have a half-decent Hollywood blockbuster on your hands. Otherwise anything more complicated get muddled in group think.
hopeless
Adventurer
Well here's a penny for your thoughts...
Well I like the Mystara and Eberron options, but Eberron will cost "way" too much given how much could be put in and their track record isn't that great to begin with (excluding Jeremy Irons who can ham it up as much as he likes as far as I'm concerned!) and Mystara well I just can't see them doing justice to that setting after all Clash of the Titans could easily have been set there with a couple of alterations!
Me?
I'd go for a fresh outlook something like that movie I saw trailered a while ago with James Franco playing the part of a prince whose bride is kidnapped by a wizard with serious bad language and so he goes off to rescue her aided by a brother who could make Eddie Murphy at his worse look polite, a manservant and Natalie Portman!
And Natalie actually looks like she does well in that!
Now I'd have it set up that two kingdoms are seeking an aliiance against the stronger realms and this reuslts in the engagement between a prince and princess of each kingdom.
However the engagement party is interrupted by raiders who kidnap the couple and escape causing the two kings to come to blows resulting in one killing the other and assuming control!
Meanwhile the raiders learn what happened and decide they don't need one of their captives and they're enslaved whilst the other is led off to meet their master.
However the slave caravan intercepts a lone woman gathering herbs in the forest and they decide to add her to their cargo, only she turns out to be a powerful sorceress who easily overwhelms them and releases the prisoners giving them directions towards the nearest settlement before turning to leave.
The prince begs her help initially isn't believed but eventually decides its worth checking out and in the process recruits two of her friends to come along.
The quartet encounter two new members on the way, a cleric and a knight both of whom are survivors of a rescue parties sent after the kidnappers who reveal the kidnappers are led by a powerful sorceror.
They join forces but show open dislike for the party sorceress who doesn't much care for them either but they eventually reach the enemy stronghold and manage to sneak in through a secret entrance.
The prince backed by the cleric and the knight heads straight to rescue his bride whilst the others being more careful check things out discovering the dungeon is full of prisoners but poorly guarded since their master relies on his/her magic to keep things secure.
The prince and their two allies are easily caught revealing the knight to be a traitor sent to secure the missing groom.
Its revealed that the "sorceror" was working with the rival king so he could seize control and to insure the rival king doesn't turn on him he needs to keep the prince alive but not necessarily human as he turns his prisoner into a frog much to the prince's dismay!
The sorceress frees the prisoners and heads to confront the kidnapper whose revealed to be a wizard part of a guild of demon worshippers who depend on the sacrifice of sorcerors to keep their spellcasting abilities, however the wizard has bitten off more than he can cope with when he is easily defeated by the his enraged opponent.
Its now revealed that the sorceress's comrades are her father a paladin and her best friend who is a former fighter turned bard.
They discover what happened to the prince and confront the princess on her duplicity but the knight intervenes allowing her to escape or so the viewers think.
They help the prisoners escape the fortress and evade pursuit as the rival king's army moves in to secure the fortress.
This movie ends with the trio in bar discussing what to do as you leanr the rival king is slowly assuming control over the kingdom and then the sorceress grabs the prince/frog off the floor where he was gazing up a barmaid's skirt revealing she hasn't yet reversed the spell on him and isn't inclined to do so as the rival king has his men looking for the prince since he has yet to find the princess who we see in a brief flashback confronted by the sorceress who used a dimension door to slip ahead of her and then turned the princess into a mouse.
Said mouse is currently held in a small wicker cage that can be openly seen in the sorceress's possessions and her pet cat is enjoying tormenting the occupant.
Yes a bit too much care to suggest an alternative?
Well I like the Mystara and Eberron options, but Eberron will cost "way" too much given how much could be put in and their track record isn't that great to begin with (excluding Jeremy Irons who can ham it up as much as he likes as far as I'm concerned!) and Mystara well I just can't see them doing justice to that setting after all Clash of the Titans could easily have been set there with a couple of alterations!
Me?
I'd go for a fresh outlook something like that movie I saw trailered a while ago with James Franco playing the part of a prince whose bride is kidnapped by a wizard with serious bad language and so he goes off to rescue her aided by a brother who could make Eddie Murphy at his worse look polite, a manservant and Natalie Portman!
And Natalie actually looks like she does well in that!
Now I'd have it set up that two kingdoms are seeking an aliiance against the stronger realms and this reuslts in the engagement between a prince and princess of each kingdom.
However the engagement party is interrupted by raiders who kidnap the couple and escape causing the two kings to come to blows resulting in one killing the other and assuming control!
Meanwhile the raiders learn what happened and decide they don't need one of their captives and they're enslaved whilst the other is led off to meet their master.
However the slave caravan intercepts a lone woman gathering herbs in the forest and they decide to add her to their cargo, only she turns out to be a powerful sorceress who easily overwhelms them and releases the prisoners giving them directions towards the nearest settlement before turning to leave.
The prince begs her help initially isn't believed but eventually decides its worth checking out and in the process recruits two of her friends to come along.
The quartet encounter two new members on the way, a cleric and a knight both of whom are survivors of a rescue parties sent after the kidnappers who reveal the kidnappers are led by a powerful sorceror.
They join forces but show open dislike for the party sorceress who doesn't much care for them either but they eventually reach the enemy stronghold and manage to sneak in through a secret entrance.
The prince backed by the cleric and the knight heads straight to rescue his bride whilst the others being more careful check things out discovering the dungeon is full of prisoners but poorly guarded since their master relies on his/her magic to keep things secure.
The prince and their two allies are easily caught revealing the knight to be a traitor sent to secure the missing groom.
Its revealed that the "sorceror" was working with the rival king so he could seize control and to insure the rival king doesn't turn on him he needs to keep the prince alive but not necessarily human as he turns his prisoner into a frog much to the prince's dismay!
The sorceress frees the prisoners and heads to confront the kidnapper whose revealed to be a wizard part of a guild of demon worshippers who depend on the sacrifice of sorcerors to keep their spellcasting abilities, however the wizard has bitten off more than he can cope with when he is easily defeated by the his enraged opponent.
Its now revealed that the sorceress's comrades are her father a paladin and her best friend who is a former fighter turned bard.
They discover what happened to the prince and confront the princess on her duplicity but the knight intervenes allowing her to escape or so the viewers think.
They help the prisoners escape the fortress and evade pursuit as the rival king's army moves in to secure the fortress.
This movie ends with the trio in bar discussing what to do as you leanr the rival king is slowly assuming control over the kingdom and then the sorceress grabs the prince/frog off the floor where he was gazing up a barmaid's skirt revealing she hasn't yet reversed the spell on him and isn't inclined to do so as the rival king has his men looking for the prince since he has yet to find the princess who we see in a brief flashback confronted by the sorceress who used a dimension door to slip ahead of her and then turned the princess into a mouse.
Said mouse is currently held in a small wicker cage that can be openly seen in the sorceress's possessions and her pet cat is enjoying tormenting the occupant.
Yes a bit too much care to suggest an alternative?
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Olgar Shiverstone
Legend
While I'd personally like to see a Greyhawk-based movie (Elemental Evil, anyone?), what I want is for an actual successful D&D movie. For that to happen I think it needs to be a popular, recognized setting with popular, recognized characters, and I think that means Forgotten Realms.
Klaus
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Recognized by whom? There are not enough people who know what a Forgotten Realm is to make that factor into the movie's success.
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