D&D Movie/TV Chris Pine To Star In D&D Movie

The long, slow process towards a modern take on D&D movies took a large step forward with the announcement of a huge star signed to the project. Considering that filming is set to start soon a cascade of announcements should be revealed in initiative order imminently. Filming begins in Q1 2021.

Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley will be directing the film which features "an ensemble cast and take a subversive approach to the game."

Chris Pine In Talks To Star In ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ For eOne And Paramount; Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley Direct

Chris Pine To Star In 'Dungeons & Dragons'

deadline.com

Chris Pine has closed a deal to star in Dungeons & Dragons, the live action film based on Hasbro’s massively popular role-playing game from Wizards of the Coast. Hasbro/eOne and Paramount are jointly producing and financing, with eOne distributing in the UK and Canada, and Paramount the rest of the world.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

It may have been poorly made, but it also had no zing to it. Guardians of the Galaxy is definitely good triumphing over evil, but it's also definitely not straight either. And it worked far better than a straight rendition of Star-lord probably would have.

Like hell it had no zing.

As for Guardians, other than changing Star-Lord to fit the actor and being funnier than they could have gone with it, the movie plays all it's premises straight.

I'm not sure how you're using the term "straight", but parodies don't play their premises straight.

 

[darjr]

 

[ccs]

The first dnd movie didn't bomb because it was "straight", it bombed because it was poorly made and half of it didn't make any sense.

I don't know, I think that rather captured the essence of alot of campaigns.....

 

[Aeson]

Ok, we got our Bard. Who wants to run the Fighter?

Joe Manganiello

 

[Umbran]

Joe Manganiello

Only because I expect Vin Diesel needs some tricked out character multi-classed twice over, playing an obscure UA subclass for each.

 

[Sacrosanct]

They could do Andre Norton's Quag Keep ... an old 70s novel and one of the first D&D novels ever written. In the book the PCs all had bracelets with weird oddly (dice) shaped gems that spun when they were in combat and they could never understand.

They were, of course, gamers that had been conjured by a wizard.

Just reread that last year. Also, they were losing their real life idenities and were becoming their characters.

 

[grimslade]

I hope they don't create a Jumanji: Welcome to the Dungeon with geeky players becoming the leading man PCs. It would seem derivative instead of subversive. I do think you need to represent the table in some manner. That would be subversive if done well.
Game Night was a fun movie. So I am tentatively excited.

 

[Aeson]

Only because I expect Vin Diesel needs some tricked out character multi-classed twice over, playing an obscure UA subclass for each.

Besides, he did his D&D movie. It's called Chronicles of Riddick.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Besides, he did his D&D movie. It's called Chronicles of Riddick.

Nope. The Last Witchhunter. Also a better film than the Riddick movies.

 

[pming]

Hiya!

Like others, the whole "subversive approach" has alarm bells ringing. Mostly because of, well, the word...
(DEFINITION)

sub•ver•sive (səb-vûr′sĭv, -zĭv)​

• adj.
  Intending or intended to subvert an established order, especially to undermine or overthrow an established government.
• n.
  One who advocates or is regarded as advocating subversion.
• 
  Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin: with of.

Now, call me crazy, but that does NOT sound like something I want anyone to do to/with a D&D movie. Or is there some completely made-up "new definition" of the word subversive that I'm unaware of? (gods I hope so!...)

^_^

Paul L. Ming