D&D Movie/TV Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves At San Diego Comic-Con

Attendees of San Diego Comic-Con this year will be able to immerse themselves in a 'Tavern Experience' promoting the upcoming D&D movie, Honor Among Thieves, IGN reports. It will be a 20-minute experience in which you can interact with D&D critters and characters. Additionally, guests can try both alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions of 'Dragon Brew'.

Additionally, on Thursday July 21st, during the convention, the films cast will be on stage and fans will get a sneak peek at the movie, which is due out next year.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves includes in its cast Chris Pine, Hugh Grant, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, and more.

D&D Movie/TV - Honor Among Thieves: The New D&D Movie Officially Announced

Paramount has announced the title of March 3rd, 2023's Dungeon's & Dragons movie -- and it's HONOR AMONG THIEVES! The cast includes some Hollywood heavyweights -- Chris Pine, Rege Jean Page, Michelle Rodriguez, Hugh Grant, and others. The release date was announced back in August: ‘Dungeons...

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[Nikosandros]

A predator that looks like a stump with a fluffy bunny on the top. I rest my case.

 

[Nikosandros]

As a more serious reply: D&D has always been many things at once. There's always been the cheesy and also the more serious. I daresay this is one of its strength.

 

[Parmandur]

Sort of. While art may be funny like in the original 1E books and players around a table play cheesy characters and laugh while drinking Dew. The worlds like Faerun Krynn, Greyhawk, etc aren’t really meant to be “cheesy”.

Heck I’d say the worlds didn’t get lol cheesy until 5E.

Which as someone sort of pointed out earlier, seems to be what modern players want to go along with their anime style characters.

I'm sorry, I've read enough older D&D material to confidently day rest isn't true. Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and type Forgotten Realms drip with cheese, always have. Pure canp, and nothing wrong with that.

Anime fantasy style primarily comes from Basic D&D pretty straight.

 

[Parmandur]

As a more serious reply: D&D has always been many things at once. There's always been the cheesy and also the more serious. I daresay this is one of its strength.

Exactly,and that would be a good mix for, say, a major blockbuster film.

 

[wedgeski]

Looks good to me. A heightened reality fantasy vibe is exactly what I'd expect from a family friendly movie. The trailer will answer just about all other questions I have. Fingers crossed.

 

[Ondath]

Heck I’d say the worlds didn’t get lol cheesy until 5E.

The golden pantaloons in Baldur's Gate, the entire race of Tinker Gnomes in Dragonlance, and many of the key figures in Oerth being named things like Zagyg and Melf the Male Elf disagree with you.

I agree that D&D has always been cheesy and also serious at the same time. Modern settings are no different. You've got your Acquisitions Incorporated which is as cheesy as it gets, as well as Critical Role which is chock full of serious ACTING moments and pretty serious themes. People have always liked both and still do.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I had a feeling Chris Pine was playing a bard after the brief footage I saw at CinemaCon. Guess this confirms it!

Solid adventuring party build.

Yeah, I had seen his outfit before (all except Page in the set photos), and combined with the questionnaire that asked "how would you feel about a bard that didn't cast spells?" and the info that he is an ex-harper leads me to be unsurprised about his bardyness!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Is there a D&D original IP monster with tentacles? The other four monsters are all originals, so I'm guessing that one is too, I just can't think of what? The skull could just be a skull in a dungeon.

What this poster tells me is that Paramount is marketing to D&D fans as a priority. The vast majority of the public wouldn't know what these things are.

It looks like a giant octopus to me (maybe the druidling wildshapes into one?). There are a fair few originals with tentacles, but I don't think any are quite so octopus-like.

 

[Reynard]

A predator that looks like a stump with a fluffy bunny on the top. I rest my case.

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Ah, yes, the Dire O'keeffe.

 

[Jer]

I'm sorry, I've read enough older D&D material to confidently day rest isn't true. Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and type Forgotten Realms drip with cheese, always have. Pure canp, and nothing wrong with that.

I have come to realize in my decades of interacting with other D&D fans online that many people had a very different experience with D&D than I did. It was never anything that anyone in my real life circle ever took seriously - I mean, one of the first adventures I ever actually owned was The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror where we got Gygax's loving tribute to Lewis Carroll. But I understand now that for many people gaming was a serious undertaking and their worlds were works of serious fantasy.

So I get it, but I do wish that more folks would look at D&D as a brand when they're thinking about how it looks to a mass market rather than their own personal experiences with the material. D&D in the mass market is goofy stuff in a good way - like Doctor Who or Guardians of the Galaxy or Ant-man. You can do serious stuff with it, but it's never going to be "serious" as a brand because that's not the headspace it lives in in the general consciousness.