D&D General Who would you cast as Drizz't? (Tiger Shroff Bollywood martial artist)

[UngainlyTitan]

I would agree that it is not found on TV or in movies, but I know a bunch of south Sudanese folks and many of them are entirely black without a hint of brown in their pigment. It is very striking and a couple of them have skin that just seems to pick up any blue in the surroundings/clothing and often give the illusion of blue-black ink pigment.

People with really dark skin are also very difficult for movie directors, photographers, makeup artists, costume designers and videographers to get use to. It takes some real practice to frame shots in such a way as to keep an entirely black person as the centre of the eyeline and show expressions without having to zoom in to far. You also seldom shoot straight on to the face as camera struggle with definition. It can be done of course, but there is a lot of ignorance around how to do it which complicates things. There are some good discussions around it on youtube with directors talking about their learning curves in this regard. Compound this 10x fold when the setting of the movie is meant to be the underdark.

Well here we are getting in to what does an imaginary race look like but I am aware of the skin colour you refer to and it is not what I regard as the Drow skin colour. Since they are imaginary people, one may legitimately differ as to what they look like, however, I think black with gray/slate highlights not blue or brown. Something quite alien to humans.

 

[Ancalagon]

Jack Black seems the obvious choice

 

[Dungeonosophy]

Tiger Shroff in action: Add some Matrix-style acrobatics and accelerations, obsidian skin and white hair: https://youtu.be/9gTPDDuloXQ
Drizzt.

 

[gyor]

I would agree, that Drow skin is a black not found in natural skin colours and also D&D elves are much more slender then the human norm. There is a lot to be said for going the CGI route.
I really do wonder if a black skinned matriarchal evil race is marketable?

Oh it's marketable, success Drow based novels, video games, and so on show that.

It's not is it marketable, it's, will SJWs allow it to be made or will they fight to have it "cancelled" along with the careers of anyone linked to it.

To hardcore feminists Drizzt and even more so his dad would smell too much like an MRA, and they flipped out when Bones poytrayed MRAs as even slightly sympathetic. Imagine a story of a black skinned elf fight back against an abusive, goddess worshipping matriarchy hitting the big screen, the feminists will pull out their protest machine.

A more likely to get made movie is one about nearly as popular, but less cultural challenging Everis Cale stories or the Brimstone Angels Saga, both of Which are awesome BTW.

 

[jasper]

Me, Myself, and I. Might as well make money on a character I dislike.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I suspect that the bulk of R.A. Savlatore's sales are to people already familiar with the lore of D&d and I also strongly suspect that the people that would bury a movie for portraying a matriarchal black skinned evil race would not be caught dead within 50m. of a fantasy book.

You...may be a bit out of touch on this.

Not trying to be rude, but this is a legitimately silly notion. The people who would challenge a movie that portrays a young man’s escape from an evil black matriarchy, absolutely read fantasy novels. Not all of them, sure, but that also applies to the people that would be indifferent to it, and the people who would happily go the the theater to see it. The idea that there is some sort of strong correlation between challenging offensive narratives in media and...avoiding fantasy fiction, is just bonkers. Maybe such a thing might have been true 30 years ago? Certainly not now.


Anyway, the answer to the OP query is Chiwetel Ejiofor.

 

[Dungeonosophy]

Anyway, the answer to the OP query is Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Yep, having googled the name, I can see Drizzt in Ejiofor.

 

[Morrus]

Oh it's marketable, success Drow based novels, video games, and so on show that.

It's not is it marketable, it's, will SJWs allow it to be made or will they fight to have it "cancelled" along with the careers of anyone linked to it.

To hardcore feminists Drizzt and even more so his dad would smell too much like an MRA, and they flipped out when Bones poytrayed MRAs as even slightly sympathetic. Imagine a story of a black skinned elf fight back against an abusive, goddess worshipping matriarchy hitting the big screen, the feminists will pull out their protest machine.

Don't post again in this thread. You now have four infractions over pretty similar things, so it's clear that isn't working. The mods will discuss this and decide how to proceed now.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Yep, having googled the name, I can see Drizzt in Ejiofor.

The question then becomes, who plays the other big roles?

I’d cast Jason Momoa as Wulfgar, but I’d be willing to hear alternatives.

CB I’ve no idea. Someone young and very very pretty. Like Sophie Turner maybe? Doctor Who era Karen Gillen woulda been good.

Brunor... maybe...idk. I got nothing. Can the dwarves not speak as obnoxiously as they do the books please? There is nothing about any RAS story I dislike more than his dwarves. Hell, any dnd book I’ve ever read. They’re terrible in every way.

Regis gotta be someone special. He’s an odd character. Probably want an unknown?

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Btw I’ve said it before and will say it again, all you need for the Drow to work is to visually show 2 things in the same movie. Warning: this is all adjacent to political discussion, so if it strays too far that way let me know and I’ll delete it.

A) Ethnically African Elves (and non elves played by Black actors) that aren’t drow. Also just imagine Michael B. Jordan as a Wood Elf with like two handaxes. Or Emma Thompson as a rad High Elf Bladesinger. *

2) Women in power in Good societies, being both Good and Strong, without making the movie about that. If it’s the Underdark trilogy (I don’t recommend it), then show the followers of Eelistree or whatever her name is. If it’s the LG trilogy or a later story, show one of the many powerful women of the Realms.

Because here is the thing that a lot of folks don’t understand about criticism of representation. An evil matriarchy isn’t inherently offensive. It’s offensive because we never see good, healthy, matriarchal societies. Same deal, until recently, with depictions of societies of most cultures of color in Western media.

Now, there’s no need to spend significant time on any of that. As long as Drizzt isn’t the only Black character with a real role in the movie, and the only depiction of a Black society isn’t an unsustainably chaotic evil caricature of a society, it will be fine.