D&D Movie/TV Chris Pine is making $11.5 million for D&D movie

[Henadic Theologian]

Chris Pine is making $11.5 million for D&D movie. I'm not sure why its a good thing for the movie, but Screen Rant does.

Chris Pine's Dungeons & Dragons Salary Is A Good Sign For The Reboot

Paramount has the budget to back it up.

www.screenrant.com

 

[Vaalingrade]

That's seems about right to convince anyone to touch the career poison D&D movies traditionally are.

 

[humble minion]

The could have Daniel Day Lewis star opposite the necromantically reanimated Laurence Olivier and Katharine Hepburn, but it'll do them not a bit of good unless they've bothered spending a bit of that money on a half-decent script this time round.

 

[Vaalingrade]

You don't need to spend money on a script. You can get a writer with a meatball sandwich on a hook.

I say this as a writer.

 

[humble minion]

You don't need to spend money on a script. You can get a writer with a meatball sandwich on a hook.

I say this as a writer.

You can get an actor by going down to any local amateur theatrical company and waving a Starbucks voucher in the air, too. You don't NEED to spent eleven million on one guy. But many more big-money movies - ESPECIALLY genre or adaptation movies - have failed because of garbage scripts than have failed cos they didn't pony up the cash for big Hollywood names.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Today the famous actors aren't the best hook for the audence. The age of the superstarts ended. A good actor can add a lot of charisma for his character, but that is different. And Hollywood isn't the dream land any more. The people don't love it.

My hope is this time D&D will work in the hitbox, at least enough for a sequel, or an animated CGI teleserie as spin-off. It is exotic and spectacular but without the saturation of superheroes, and the characters aren't too perfect and powerful (we know the Gary-Stu/Mary-Sue are annoying and boring). Here the goal is the audence to have fun.

 

[Vaalingrade]

You can get an actor by going down to any local amateur theatrical company and waving a Starbucks voucher in the air, too. You don't NEED to spent eleven million on one guy. But many more big-money movies - ESPECIALLY genre or adaptation movies - have failed because of garbage scripts than have failed cos they didn't pony up the cash for big Hollywood names.

Even the best writers get paid basically sadness and a bag of cheetos was my point.

 

[humble minion]

Even the best writers get paid basically sadness and a bag of cheetos was my point.

Sad but undeniably true. But there'd be, in general, better movies made if it wasn't the case, was mine (and of course, if scripts didn't get randomly rewritten or ignored on the fly by the director during filming, but anyway...)

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm not sure how "person gets paid for doing their job" constitutes news.

 

[MNblockhead]

I'm not sure how "person gets paid for doing their job" constitutes news.

It's information. Some find it interesting. It is new to many of those people. I know a lots of people who would make the same dismissive type of comment about any TTRPG-related news.