D&D Movie/TV Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith Join D&D Movie

From Comic Book Movies -- "Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar) and Justice Smith (Detective Pikachu) have joined Wonder Woman 1984's Chris Pine in Paramount and eOne's upcoming big-budget board game adaptation, Dungeons & Dragons..."

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Michelle Rodriguez And Justice Smith Join Chris Pine In Fantasy Adaptation

Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar) and Justice Smith (Detective Pikachu) have joined Wonder Woman 1984's Chris Pine in Paramount and eOne's upcoming big-budget board game adaptation, Dungeons & Dragons...

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We learned in December about Chris Pine's involvement, along with directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.

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...

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[Ruin Explorer]

C'mon people. When I hear "magic trains", my first thought is the Final Fantasy video games, not D&D.

I think for most people it's Harry Potter.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I think for most people it's Harry Potter.

There may be magic involved around that train, but there does not seems to be anything magical about the train itself.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I think for most people it's Harry Potter.

There does not actually appear to be anything obviously magical about the Hogwarts Express. It's powered by steam. The platform is magical, but the train isn't.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Your success: Proving the Forgotten Realms is Generic Fantasyland
Your failure: Proving that Frozen 2 is Generic Fantasyland.

Frozen is part of a Genericfantasyland, that also includes the settings for most other Disney animations, from Snow White to Tangled.

 

[Oofta]

I think an Eberron campaign would just need a quick intro to explain it. A brief montage of the last war, some aerial pictures of a city with magi-tech trains and so on.

I think it could be kind of cool, but I also don't think it matters a whole [edit] long [/edit] lot.

 

[payn]

I dont think any intro explanation is necessary. Show it by have things happening. GotG has Peter losing his mom, gets abducted by a spaceship. Sad and oh we are in space now. Next scene is a Mcguffin hunt followed by a fight over the McGuffin and yadda yadda. Still dont know S#^T about the world, but who cares? Whats happening right in front of us is interesting, sad, fun, and exciting!

 

[Oofta]

I dont think any intro explanation is necessary. Show it by have things happening. GotG has Peter losing his mom, gets abducted by a spaceship. Sad and oh we are in space now. Next scene is a Mcguffin hunt followed by a fight over the McGuffin and yadda yadda. Still dont know S#^T about the world, but who cares? Whats happening right in front of us is interesting, sad, fun, and exciting!

For non-D&D folks explaining things like how magic trains are a thing could use some explanation. Being abducted by a spaceship is a pretty common trope, warforged are not. I think if the setting matters (it doesn't really need to) an intro scene would help.

Besides, having scenes of a warforged being created could be kind of cool.

 

[ART!]

I dont think any intro explanation is necessary. Show it by have things happening. GotG has Peter losing his mom, gets abducted by a spaceship. Sad and oh we are in space now. Next scene is a Mcguffin hunt followed by a fight over the McGuffin and yadda yadda. Still dont know S#^T about the world, but who cares? Whats happening right in front of us is interesting, sad, fun, and exciting!

This is a good point - you can get by with very little actual explanation and even some very dumb things if your storytelling is really engaging, if the ride is thrilling, if the dramatic or emotional momentum doesn't allow much time to question things.

See: J.J. Abrams.

 

[ART!]

For non-D&D folks explaining things like how magic trains are a thing could use some explanation. Being abducted by a spaceship is a pretty common trope, warforged are not. I think if the setting matters (it doesn't really need to) an intro scene would help.

Besides, having scenes of a warforged being created could be kind of cool.

Theoretically, you could get by with just:

Earlier in movie: ""War-forged'? Pff - some kind of fairy-tale magic...construct...battle machines? Nonsense."

Later in movie, after warforged show up: "Okay: not a fairy-tale! Run!"

But, you know, better written.

 

[Oofta]

Theoretically, you could get by with just:

Earlier in movie: ""War-forged'? Pff - some kind of fairy-tale magic...construct...battle machines? Nonsense."

Later in movie, after warforged show up: "Okay: not a fairy-tale! Run!"

But, you know, better written.

If it's Eberron, warforged are well known.

But don't sell yourself short, your vignette was terrifying.