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'

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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]

I don’t really buy into that anti-expert rhetoric.

It’s not about anti-expert rhetoric. Novels aren’t chemistry.

You missed the point of pretty much everything you replied to, so I won’t bother trying to further engage. All that really matter is this, anyway.

Critical acclaim means vanishingly little, especially in terms of what audiences enjoy, but into, and spend money on.

And literary awards have an elitist bias against any genre fiction, with the partial exception of “hard” sci-fi.

 

[TheSword]

It’s not about anti-expert rhetoric. Novels aren’t chemistry.

You missed the point of pretty much everything you replied to, so I won’t bother trying to further engage. All that really matter is this, anyway.

Critical acclaim means vanishingly little, especially in terms of what audiences enjoy, but into, and spend money on.

And literary awards have an elitist bias against any genre fiction, with the partial exception of “hard” sci-fi.

Okay, I won’t engage with your parting shot either

 

[Khelon Testudo]

What this tells me it that the people behind the movie recognise that Guardians of the Galaxy was the closest thing to a D&D movie that actually worked.

The worrying thing is that the casting of the same star suggests that's probably about all they have.

They didn't cast the same star. Chris Pratt was in GotG; they're casting Chris Pine, who was in Wonder Woman and the JJ Star Trek movies.

 

[Don Durito]

They didn't cast the same star. Chris Pratt was in GotG; they're casting Chris Pine, who was in Wonder Woman and the JJ Star Trek movies.

Really? Are sure they're not actually the same person? Ever seen them both in the same place at the same time?

 

[TheSword]

Yes, but does that tell you about the books, or about the thought process of the committees awarding prizes?



So, the Pulitzer prize for literature recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. That fantasy isn't represented isn't telling of quality, because the prize has a genre bias.

The Nobel is not generally awarded for a specific work, it is awarded to an author for their body of work. Nobel also left guidelines about the kinds of works that should be considered: that the candidate should have bestowed, "the greatest benefit on mankind", and writing, "in an ideal direction." The interpretation of these gets strange, depending on what era you are in, and there's significant discussion of the... political nature of the awards in many instances.

The Booker Prize has only been around since 1969. And until 2014, it only considered works written my citizens of the British Commonwealth, Ireland, and South Africa. So, the bulk of fantasy as we know it hasn't been eligible to win on national grounds.

As for the last... I am not sure what award you mean. Perhaps the National Book Award for Fiction? That one is presented to authors.. by authors. And if you're allowing those, I'm not sure why we shouldn't also be considering Nebula Award winners.

The Nebula award is presented by fantasy or sci-fi writers. When you’re comparing fantasy and sci-if to other genres then an award created specifically to recognize fantasy and sci-fi probably doesn’t count.

There is the National Award for Fiction, I posted a link earlier.

As for the Booker there are fantasy writers outside of America. Im not sure what the concern is? Is fantasy writing only American?

I don’t see how being measured on your body of work disadvantages fantasy writers (unless some of it isn’t very good). But do you think bestowing benefit on mankind or take us in an ideal direction is a quality of one of the best authors.

I’m genuinely interested now. Any major international book award awarded to a Fantasy novel? Costa Award (Former Whitbread Award?), Women’s Prize for Fiction, any others? Just out of interest?

 

[Azzy]

If your expectations are low, that does open the possibility of being pleasantly surprised, which can be nice.

This. I'm going to assume it's going to suck. If it's actually good, I'll have a nice surprise. I did this with both the LotR movies and Captain America and was happy to be wrong on both counts.

 

[Don Durito]

Literary writing is in many ways a genre of it's own. Or more precisely it's not even about genre so much as it is about diverging traditions of writing. Literary writing is in conversation with other literary works, while fantasy and science fictions are more in conversation with other works in their own tradition.

You could definitely argue (on the basis of genre based elements) that One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Nobel Prize winner) is fantasy - it has magic and miracles. Similarly J.M Coetzee's (another Nobel winner) 'Waiting for the Barbarians' takes place in what very much seems to be a secondary world. But both works belong to very different traditions to what we normally think of as fantasy.

 

[Azzy]

Suffer, heard Crank by KMFDM?

No, I haven't hear much of their more recent (anything post 2005) works.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Most people aren't heroes. But maybe they could be.

I keep coming back to this.

If the movie doesn’t feature heroes, actual heroic characters, it’ll be a waste of money and time.

 

[Azzy]

Most people aren't heroes. But maybe they could be.

That's the impression that I get.