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

[Henadic Theologian]

I'd put the order of importance on building an audience for a movie in order of importance IP, Trailers, and Cast/Crew.

People are focusing on the importance of cast/crew and IP, but trailers are hugely important to how a movie does, it can tank a great movie (Star Trek Beyond), or get folks into the theater at least for opening weekend for a bad movie with a great trailer.

Ghostbusters afterlife great trailer (but should have shown the OG cast returning,movie is even better) and Spiderman: No Way Home Amazing trailer (but the movie is even better) and both were very profitable.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

The fun fact is if the production makes mistakes and this causes a lot of parodies then inderectly D&D will get a lot of free promotion. If they can be sold to be "Game of Thrones" then to be "Monty Pyton+Flintstones". Even the no-geek audence can have a lot of fun watching the ammont of wrong choises by the players and all that unintentional humor, like the classic trope "bard + female dragon = a song dragon is born nine months later".

If this movie works enough, other movie studios will dare to produce titles of fantasy, even acquiring RPG publishers for their brands if it was necessary.

Paramount wants this D&D movie to be the new Star Wars(+Jurasic Park) of the fantasy genre, and it is a very important bet for them. If they fail, Hasbro could start a new partership with other studio, and I suspect Warner and Disney have showed some winks, but these can start from zero with their own IPs. Pirates of the Dark Waters could be perfect for a Warner version of a D&D world. They could produce a videogame with a retro style, and this wouldn't need the most powerful software.

The company WotC/Hasbro should have gotten to do the D&D movie is Sony if you go by how well Sony did this year Ghostbusters Afterlife, Spiderman: No Way Home, and Venom 2, Sony ruled 2021.

The one advantage of Parimount though is the if Viacom CBS's stock keeps cratoring then Hasbro could buy it and then have a great vechicle for turning their IPs into movie and TV shows, while picking up the right to IPs like Star Trek, The Godfather, etc..., for future toys and digital products.

 

[bedir than]

The company WotC/Hasbro should have gotten to do the D&D movie is Sony if you go by how well Sony did this year Ghostbusters Afterlife, Spiderman: No Way Home, and Venom 2, Sony ruled 2021.

The one advantage of Parimount though is the if Viacom CBS's stock keeps cratoring then Hasbro could buy it and then have a great vechicle for turning their IPs into movie and TV shows, while picking up the right to IPs like Star Trek, The Godfather, etc..., for future toys and digital products.

Hasbro bought eOne just prior to the pandemic. it has a strong history of producing TV hits, including the long running Gray's Anatomy.

Paramount is a partner for distribution reasons (just as Netflix is for the MtG cartoon)

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Hasbro bought eOne just prior to the pandemic. it has a strong history of producing TV hits, including the long running Gray's Anatomy.

Paramount is a partner for distribution reasons (just as Netflix is for the MtG cartoon)

Yeah, but if they buy Paramount they can do their own distribution and won't need to depend on partners anymore.

Anyways here is a major breakdown on cost to revenue streams and profits for Spiderman No Way Home that can be extrapolated as a formula for the D&D Movie when it comes out. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’, Already In The Black From $1B WW Box Office, Could See Ultimate $600M+ Net Profit

Also I really hope the final name for the movie is a hell of a lot better then The D&D movie, it's weird we don't have the actual title to the movie yet.

 

[DarkCrisis]

There isnt a chance in Hades this movie will be good. Doesn't mean it wont be fun but I expect it to be about 1 step above the old film with Marlon Wayans in it. Which again, was a fun but an awful film.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

There isnt a chance in Hades this movie will be good. Doesn't mean it wont be fun but I expect it to be about 1 step above the old film with Marlon Wayans in it. Which again, was a fun but an awful film.

why the pessimism?

 

[Oofta]

why the pessimism?

Because the previous movies were produced for a fraction of the cost by people who didn't really understand the game, obviously. Even though there's absolutely nothing connecting this movie to the previous movies, the new one will be just the same.

After all, the well has been tainted and it's not like any other franchise has ever produced terrible movies and then gone on to be blockbusters. Next thing you know you'll be telling me that after a string of bad movies based on Marvel comics they got rebooted with a B list hero and an actor with a record of substance abuse.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Because the previous movies were produced for a fraction of the cost by people who didn't really understand the game, obviously.

I hope the movie makes no connection to the mechanics of the game at all, only the lore and the setting they are using.

 

[Oofta]

I hope the movie makes no connection to the mechanics of the game at all, only the lore and the setting they are using.

I think they could, and should, make some connections to the mechanics. No "magic dust" for powering spells and so on. If there's a barbarian show them going into a rage although there shouldn't be any exposition on it, that's just how Brog responds to combat.

But it's not like they're going to stop at the start of battle and roll some D20s for initiative. I can't imagine anyone even suggesting such a thing.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I think they could, and should, make some connections to the mechanics. No "magic dust" for powering spells and so on. If there's a barbarian show them going into a rage although there shouldn't be any exposition on it, that's just how Brog responds to combat.

Character lore is fine, just no hint even of mechanics or stupid gamer-speak of the characters announcing what they are doing, like it was a game. Save that for cartoons made for pre-schoolers.

But it's not like they're going to stop at the start of battle and roll some D20s for initiative. I can't imagine anyone even suggesting such a thing.

Oh, you have missed some of the other threads on the movie, then. lol

There are people who want the movie starting with normal people at a table playing the game before it cuts to their characters in the actual movie adventure. And other dopey stuff like that.