Your ideal D&D movie/TV show?

[Aberzanzorax]

I'm not sure...but.....

I nominate:

Joss Whedon

The writer and/or director of Supernatural

The writer and/or director of Psyche

Peter Jackson

The writer and/or director of the spiderman and xmen I and II movies

The staff of American Horror Story.



READY! SET! GO!

Scare me! Make real characters! They gotta be hardcore D&D, though.

 

[coyote6]

I'm not sure...but.....

I nominate:

Joss Whedon

[...]

The staff of American Horror Story.

The creators of American Horror Story are also the creators of Glee. Add in Whedon, and you may end up with Dungeons & Dragons: the Musical.

I would nominate John Rogers to be showrunner -- he's made TV shows before & now and he's writing the D&D comic now.

But only on two conditions: 1) he wants to, and 2) it happens after Leverage ends.

 

[Ringlerun]

I would like to see the old modules put into a tv show. How cool would it be to see Keep on the Borderlands or Horror on the Hill. It would probably take a up to 6 episodes per module. But then it gives them about 10 seasons worth of material.

I think if the current people who are doing Game of thrones did this it would be a huge success.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

As much as I'd love to see a Vin Diesel-type kick orc ass on the big screen*, there's one big problem with this: black-out is illegal in the US, and even a really black actor would have to wear black-out to be as black as a drow. Come to think of it, this is a problem for any live action production involving drow.

I imagine a production studio could somehow gain consent since drow are clearly not an example of blackface, regardless of their black skin. (But I have zero knowledge of law so I have no frame of reference. I'm like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie.)

 

[TarionzCousin]

I'm like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie.

The grandma-unfriendly joke possibilities here are many.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

The grandma-unfriendly joke possibilities here are many.

Oops! I was just quoting The Big Lebowski.

 

[Roland55]

Has anybody suggested "I Love Lucy" ... with swords and magic? And maybe a dragon or three?

Just checking.

 

[havard]

I'd be happy as long as:

1) Rules references are not inserted into the dialogue ("Fighter, use your cleave on that goblin skirmisher!)
2) Its not about people transported from our world (aka the D&D Cartoon)
3) Its not about people transported from a D&D world into our world (aka Masters of the Universe)

If Live action, I think it is a good idea to keep SFX down and in the background, focusing on characters and not spectacular monsters and spells. A cartoon might work better since you can accomplish so many D&D-ish things without going overboard with the budget.

-Havard