D&D Movie/TV Here's The D&D Movie Trailer!

"Who needs heroes when you have thieves?" The movie arrives March 3rd, 2023. Here's the trailer! When they said it was inspired by Guardians of the Galaxy, they weren't kidding! We have dragons, owlbears, mimics, gelatinous cubes, quips, and more!



There was also a clip shown at San Diego Comic Con where the party cast speak with dead, and got to ask five questions. Also, apparently, the D&D cartoon characters from the 80s have a cameo!

 

[Audiomancer]

Hey! Anyone see any Drow? Or Dragonborn?

Gotta save something for the sequels.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Gotta save something for the sequels.

My crazy dream for if this movie succeeds is that it not only makes sequels but allows other D&D settings to be adapted to the big screen. Eberron, Ravenloft, Dragonlance, maybe even Dark Sun eventually. I would kill for a Spelljammer movie, but that's not going to happen anytime in my lifetime.

 

[Baumi]

Wow. After Seeing the Pictures I didn't have to much hope for the Movie, but the Trailer rocks! 8D

 

[BookTenTiger]

One thought I had is that someone who has only heard of, but never played D&D would watch that trailer and think, "Wow D&D looks like fun."

I think, if the movie holds up, we are going to get a lot of new interest in our hobby!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I suppose a CoC movie would be centered on a team of investigators just like the game is.

And their cowardly dog? I think I've seen that movie too!

A Warhammer movie would be Starship Troopers - in fantasy!

 

[Hand of Evil]

And their cowardly dog? I think I've seen that movie too!

A Warhammer movie would be Starship Troopers - in fantasy!

Rumor has it that Henry Cavill (Superman. Witcher, and a big fan) is looking to producing and starring in a Warhammer 40K movie.

 

[Hand of Evil]

A cute girl with horns and a tail shapechanges into an Owlbear.
That is the essence of the new intake of DND. There will be Owlbear mania, and this will drive the movies success to the masses.
I sense a plushy outbreak.

A white fluffy Owlbear! They can even sell Owlbear throw rugs!

 

[humble minion]

Rumor has it that Henry Cavill (Superman. Witcher, and a big fan) is looking to producing and starring in a Warhammer 40K movie.

There is that Eisenhorn TV show supposedly in the works, I wonder if he's involved in that.

The problem with any Warhammer movie is that there lore is so weird and deep that you'd need to spend half the running time in exposition just explaining enough of it to make the basic fundamentals of the world make sense. Can't show space travel without talking about the warp or navigators. Can't talk about the Emperor without talking about Golden Throne, can't talk about the Golden Throne without talking about the Horus Heresy, can't talk about the Horus Heresy without getting into the Primarchs and Chaos, etc etc etc. And this is all stuff that's 100% unfamiliar to someone who's going in with no background knowledge.

With D&D, you don't have to go into huge detail about what a dwarf is (cos everyone's seen Lord of the Rings and it's all basically the same), or detail the deep history of Faerun (because it doesn't matter), just to make the plot and setting make sense. Warhammer is a much harder prospect to put to screen.

 

[Jer]

. Reading comic books is a pretty different hobby from playing a TTRPG (even though there is a lot of overlap in the fanbases)

For one thing - Wizards is much better about making entry products to bring people in and getting them into stores that aren't specialty stores. The continued availability of Starter sets at Target and other big box stores is something the comics companies have never been able to crack.

But also the buy in for D&D is so much lower. Monthly comics require a commitment to get entertainment from that is almost the opposite of D&D's.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

The problem with any Warhammer movie is that there lore is so weird and deep that you'd need to spend half the running time in exposition just explaining enough of it to make the basic fundamentals of the world make sense. Can't show space travel without talking about the warp or navigators. Can't talk about the Emperor without talking about Golden Throne, can't talk about the Golden Throne without talking about the Horus Heresy, can't talk about the Horus Heresy without getting into the Primarchs and Chaos, etc etc etc. And this is all stuff that's 100% unfamiliar to someone who's going in with no background knowledge.

With 40K it's so wild I think you'd have to start with an audience-POV character who was from a background distant from the core of the Empire. Like in the Imperial Guard or something on some world distant from both Holy Terra and Chaos-y places, where maybe they don't even really believe the Emperor and all that is real (just see it as religion), where they've never actually seen a Space Marine in person, maybe seen some Eldar trader once in the distance, and so on, and gradually build it up.

If you just try and drop the audience in at the deep end, whilst that will work for existing fans, new people will be staggeringly off-put, especially because the Empire is, in GW's own words, fascist and repugnant. The only way "deep end" works is if you stick very tightly to one group of people - and that's not going to work with Marines or indeed most of the "wacky" side of the Imperium, because they're far too freakish. It might work with a titan crew or something I guess.

Warhammer Fantasy wouldn't be too bad, on the other hand. It's not a significantly harder sell than most D&D settings.