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!

 

[Hussar]

A Gene-stealer invasion movie would work pretty easily. And, anyone who's played Starcraft would immediately be on board.

 

[DarkCrisis]

In the art, acid breath is usually shown as a jet of green slime.

But most real world acids are clear liquids, as shown in the movie.

If they were done, they could release it next week. That's why the release date is next year.

If you look at the trailers to Jurassic World, say, the CGI changes significantly from one trailer to the next to the final film.

In that book, a character is hit with the acid and almost dies.

In this film, you see it hit a guy who just stands up. Doesn’t really seem to effect him at all

I suppose that guy could be higher level…

 

[DarkCrisis]

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.

Everything has to be cute now. They couldn’t take any chances with the core party and its attractiveness.

 

[humble minion]

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.

Problem with Warhammer Fantasy is that to the non-fan it's functionally indistinguishable from D&D or Warcraft or a zillion other fantasy settings.

Good point with the rest though. If I had to make a 40k movie, I'd have it from the point of view of a hive gang somewhere in the depths, and put them between a growing sinister cult of some sort (genestealers or Chaos) and a Deathwatch kill-team of space marines. The marines are pretty much as terrifying and alien as the actual bad guys, but perhaps the gangers get conscripted by them as local guides or something. You can't make a 40K movie without astartes, clearly they're the #1 icons of the setting, but by portraying them through normal (terrified) human eyes you can avoid going too deep into the backstory.

Titan crew wouldn't work They're all deep in the tech-worshipping adeptus mechanicus headspace, and that's at least as bewildering as anything else in the setting...

 

[Noddy Beholder]

That trailer looked a lot better than I expected. I'll definitely give this one a watch.

I was dreading that the film would use the very tired trope of people from our world being transported to the realms as a cheap way of explaining the setup to the viewers.
Loved the owlbear sequence ^_^
I wonder if we'll get a bald bloke with blue lips as one of the bad guys?

 

[Steampunkette]

Almost 8 million views on the official trailer and it's only been 1 day.

 

[Undrave]

Maybe. Or he just likes the Waterdeep coins called Dragons.

Could he be a Lord of Waterdeep?

 

[Undrave]

They are honestly the least monstrous monstrosity, never liked them in that category anyway. I welcome that change if they do, movie aside

Yeah they're basically just a weird animal like what they had in Avatar the Last Airbender.

 

[Cadence]

My 12 yo loved the preview, but afterwards: "Why'd they have to do rogues!?!"

 

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