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.

 

[Alethra-zin]

So, what beer are you drinking?

I am not drinking.

 

[Alethra-zin]

Dude. The game that we're talking about is the same one that has the setting Spelljammer in it. You know, the one with the flightless merchant penguins that ride flying pigs in outer-space battles.

No D&D movie ever should be 100% serious. Including a Dark Sun or Ravenloft movie. Humor is practically as essential to the core of the game as dice are.

Okay, so I am exaggerating just a little. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Seriously, I agree: not 100%.
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[Alethra-zin]

I am cool with a Guardians of the Galaxy type D&D movie (which is what this sounds like). If that's not your thing, cool. But I don't think such a concept would be met with anger by the D&D community in general.

You are most likely correct.


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[Plaguescarred]

The actor's opinion was clearly influenced by the medieval fantasy theme he witnessed, IIRC the original comparaison was Indiana Jones + Guardians of the Galaxy.

 

[Parmandur]

The actor's opinion was clearly influenced by the medieval fantasy theme he witnessed, IIRC the original comparaison was Indiana Jones + Guardians of the Galaxy.

Yeah, I mean, he probably hasn't seen the final film in any fashion, so all he has to go 9n is the script and what he saw on set. He is experienced enough to probably realize he doesn't knkw what it will look like in the end.

 

[Gammadoodler]

So literally the entire spectrum of movie tones. He literally said the entire scale. Thanks for that worthless bit of information I guess?

sigh This is why it annoys me that they always interview actors and directors but never the writers who actually know wtf they are talking about.


See for me the more I hear this movie being described as "a comedy" the more concerned I grow that it will be any good. Comedies are either absolute s&#% or great, and there is never anything in between. They are also the standard genre for either "eh, we don't care about this movie, let's just throw a star people recognize" or are most prone to "we can just tweak this for the normies because it's a comedy and no one cares right?"

You've really never experienced a comedy movie between the extremes of great and garbage?

I'd maybe agree that memorable comedies exist in those extremes, but it's in the same way that a lot of memorable creative works exist there. The things you love and the things you loathe take up long term brain space, but I suspect there's plenty you just like that's not being accounted for.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Dude. The game that we're talking about is the same one that has the setting Spelljammer in it. You know, the one with the flightless merchant penguins that ride flying pigs in outer-space battles.

No D&D movie ever should be 100% serious. Including a Dark Sun or Ravenloft movie. Humor is practically as essential to the core of the game as dice are.

As long as it's not taken to the point of killing immersion the humour has it's time and place. Even guardians of the galaxy knew when to be serious.

 

[Fifth Element]

It made a drop in the bucket compared to the Bay movies. People like to Bash Bay online, but his movies made money hand over fist and he made transformers into a massive movie empires, worth billions, without him, it fell apart.

It grossed 80% of the last Bay film on half the budget. It was plenty profitable.

 

[Hussar]

Money = quality

Money means that you get MORE. Without money, you don’t get a Bumblebee movie. You don’t get a pretty good Netflix cartoon for Transformers. So on and so forth.

It’s so easy to turn up your nose and poo poo money but without that money, Star Wars is a forgotten cult flick. DnD goes away. Star Trek dies in the sixties.

Sorry but I’d much much rather have a Bay level financially successful DnD movie than some “good” movie that no one watches.

 

[Parmandur]

Money means that you get MORE. Without money, you don’t get a Bumblebee movie. You don’t get a pretty good Netflix cartoon for Transformers. So on and so forth.

It’s so easy to turn up your nose and poo poo money but without that money, Star Wars is a forgotten cult flick. DnD goes away. Star Trek dies in the sixties.

Sorry but I’d much much rather have a Bay level financially successful DnD movie than some “good” movie that no one watches.

My primary hope is that the merchandise from Hasbro is quality, and that it convinces more people to play. I don't need the Fantasy Citizen Kane, the Fantasy Transformers will do me fine.