D&D Movie/TV The D&D Movie Has Begun Filming!

Director Jonathan Goldstein tweeted "The campaign begins" with the following image!


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

The film stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith, Hugh Grant, and Rege-Jean Page.

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Hugh Grant will be playing the villain in the Chris Pine D&D movie, which also stars Fast & Furious' Michelle Rodriguez, Jurassic World's Justice Smith and Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page, according to Deadline. According to ComicBookMovie, his character name is Forge Fletcher, and the cast will...

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[Paul Farquhar]

What?

Excessive earnestness.

Good lord. God forbid anything ever take itself seriously.

Quite. Real life is too short and grim for seriousness as entertainment.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Quite. Real life is too short and grim for seriousness as entertainment.

Yeah who wants stuff like Lord of The Rings or Star Wars all entertainment should just be comedy.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah who wants stuff like Lord of The Rings or Star Wars all entertainment should just be comedy.

Star Wars is not remotely serious, and Lord of the Rings mostly manages to avoid being too po-faced. Both are "comedy" in the Shakespearian sense.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Star Wars is not remotely serious, and Lord of the Rings mostly manages to avoid being too po-faced. Both are "comedy" in the Shakespearian sense.

Absurd and disingenuous.

Star Wars absolutely takes itself seriously (the thing I actually said), and your take on LoTR is laughable.

And you know damn well no one is using comedy in the Greek (who Shakespeare gets the terminology from) sense.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Absurd and disingenuous.

Star Wars absolutely takes itself seriously (the thing I actually said), and your take on LoTR is laughable.

And you know damn well no one is using comedy in the Greek (who Shakespeare gets the terminology from) sense.

was the greek one more or less everything ends well as opposed to tragedy where everything ends badly.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

was the greek one more or less everything ends well as opposed to tragedy where everything ends badly.

Yeah, exactly. Shakespearean comedies are also farcical and intentionally absurd, often very self aware and tongue-in-cheek. So, describing SW or LoTR as comedy in the “Shakespearean sense” is pretty silly.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

was the greek one more or less everything ends well as opposed to tragedy where everything ends badly.

It is a long time ago since I did lit. but as far as I recall ends well had nothing to do with it. In Greek comedy the protagonist did not die. In tragedy they did, (and frequently everyone else as well), mostly through no fault of their own. The will of the gods and so forth. Shakespeare toned it down a bit where the protagonist dies through some flaw in their personality in the circumstance. As someone pointed out, I think, on these boards recently, Hamlet would have seen through Iago and Othello would have topped Claudius before the end of the first act.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

I am amazed at the number of people dismissing or talking down this movie before even a teaser trailer is released. I mean I have no particular expectations at this point in time there is really nothing to base it on.
Ok the previous attempts were bad but also pretty low budget and fantasy is difficult to do on a low budget. I personally feel that movie will be good if there is no conflict at producer/director level and the director is into the project and is a good writer or hires a good writer.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

was the greek one more or less everything ends well as opposed to tragedy where everything ends badly.

Quite. LotR is comedy, GoT is tragedy.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I am amazed at the number of people dismissing or talking down this movie before even a teaser trailer is released. I mean I have no particular expectations at this point in time there is really nothing to base it on.
Ok the previous attempts were bad but also pretty low budget and fantasy is difficult to do on a low budget. I personally feel that movie will be good if there is no conflict at producer/director level and the director is into the project and is a good writer or hires a good writer.

well, we can expect at least a dragon or a dungeon and that it will exist.