D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie: Game of Thrones, Princess Bride, Holy Grail, The Goonies

Chris Pine, who stars in the upcoming (March 2023) Dungeons & Dragons movie has spoken about the film's influences in an interview with Collider (video below), describing it as 'poppy' and 'eighties heartfelt'.

“Oh man. Well, what I will say is we had a hell of a fun time making it. There was a lot of laughs. The way that I've been describing it, it's like Game of Thrones mixed with a little Princess Bride, just a smidge of Holy Grail; it's somewhere in that ballpark. It's a lot of fun. It's got a lot of thrills. It's poppy, it's eighties heartfelt, there's a bit of Goonies in there. My character, he's the ultimate party planner. I think it's going to be really good. I mean, who naughty word knows, but I think we got a good shot and John and John are killer guys. They know comedy and they know heart and we had a great cast and we had a good time making it. And that's all you can ask for.”

The movie also stars Hugh Grant as the bad guy, along with Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, and Regé-Jean Page.

 

[BookTenTiger]

I feel like that's a pretty common list of movies that influence D&D games, so I'm happy to see them as influences for a D&D movie!

 

[James Gasik]

Where's Conan, Hawk the Slayer, Beastmaster, Willow, Krull, and Deathstalker?

 

[Ibrandul]

Forget those—where's Zardoz?

Oh, wait, he's in Waterdeep running a carnival, apparently.

 

[ko6ux]

I'm less interested in another comedy D&D movie and more interested in some traditional swords and sorcery fantasy. But then, I guess the tone of Critical Role is probably more what they are going for.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Where's Conan, Hawk the Slayer, Beastmaster, Willow, Krull, and Deathstalker?

Off influencing other fantasy projects? There are many flavors of fantasy!

 

[Willie the Duck]

Where's Conan, Hawk the Slayer, Beastmaster, Willow, Krull, and Deathstalker?

I suspect the people for whom the studio is having Chris do this press junket would not have as significat an immediately response to those.

 

[overgeeked]

“Well, we had fun making it.”

That’s the best he could come up with. Wow. Sounds like he thinks it’s a disaster and was fishing for something nice to say.

 

[BookTenTiger]

“Well, we had fun making it.”

That’s the best he could come up with. Wow. Sounds like he thinks it’s a disaster and was fishing fir something nice to say.

Wow! That is literally the most uncharitable interpretation of a press release I could imagine!

 

[DEFCON 1]

As an actor you have no control over the editing or any of the post-production. So you might think the jokes and fights scenes and such all worked well on set... but until the edit tightens things up and the special effects make or break all the funny hand movements people were doing for spells and such... you really have no idea how a movie is going to work just from filming it on set.