D&D Movie/TV There's A New Trailer For D&D: Honor Among Thieves

A brand new trailer for the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie has just been released! The movie comes out March 31st. This trailer very much highlights the tongue-in-cheek nature of the movie and is filled with one-liners. The trailer also gives us a good luck at the Red Wizards of Thay, along with the mimic, the owlbear, and other iconic D&D monsters.

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[doctorbadwolf]

I believe the OGL situation will have zero impact on the movie. None whatsoever. Only a fraction of most RPG players are probably even aware which makes it near nil of the general population. Not to mention controversy such as negative comments may actually draw more attention. Even bad press is sometimes good.

I just wanna remind folks that it definitely isn’t such a tiny fraction of players who know about the OGL controversy. That’s just a bias talking from when the hobby was much smaller.

The Washington post, the Guardian, Forbes, and a dozen other mainstream news sources, have all reported on it.

People who barely even know that D&D exists know about it.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Thought it was the unwritten rule that all D&D games start off as Lord of the Rings and end up as Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Closer to the other way around IME.

 

[jerryrice4949]

I just wanna remind folks that it definitely isn’t such a tiny fraction of players who know about the OGL controversy. That’s just a bias talking from when the hobby was much smaller.

The Washington post, the Guardian, Forbes, and a dozen other mainstream news sources, have all reported on it.

People who barely even know that D&D exists know about it.

I hear what you are saying but I see and read a lot of news articles and most I end up not caring about or forgetting moments later. I still don’t think that most people who saw these articles care or will change their behavior based on them. We are attuned to these stories because we are in the hobby so they stick out to us. For most people they are just one of a million news items that will come across their screens that week.

 

[Undrave]

But they also MIGHT have been partially responsible for the new OGL anyway, pressuring WotC to amend the licence to ensure nobody else can make a nearly-D&D film and compete with them. Or both of the above might be true, consistency never being a particularly valued or necessary quality among vast corporations...

Hadn't thought of this angle but I find it a little hard to believe they would be scared of that considering all the stuff that's not in the OGL (like the NAME Dungeons & Dragons. Nobody's gonna go see a Pathfinder movie)... but I wouldn't be surprised if nobody at the studio and Hasbro's higher ups understood the OGL and what it brought to the table.

 

[Aldarc]

I just wanna remind folks that it definitely isn’t such a tiny fraction of players who know about the OGL controversy. That’s just a bias talking from when the hobby was much smaller.

The Washington post, the Guardian, Forbes, and a dozen other mainstream news sources, have all reported on it.

People who barely even know that D&D exists know about it.

Does China know or care?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Damn Uncle Moneybags, didn't even know you could do that. Your clearly a good friend to have.

Weirdly, depending on the theater and location, renting out a theater for a private watch party is a lot less expensive than you might think.*

(Something I learned when I wanted to see Tenet during COVID with a small group of friends).


*ETA- Especially if you can get a group together for an afternoon during the week.

 

[FrozenNorth]

The characters, the casting, the action beats and most especially the dialogue are all telling us that this will be a predictable action comedy.

I disagree that the characters suggest that this will be a predictable action comedy.

The party consists of : a bard, paladin, sorcerer, druid and barbarian.

No rogues, no wizards, no fighters, no clerics, the classes that almost always appear as part of the party in D&D-inspired fantasy movies.

The bard isn’t stupid comic relief, he appears to be the party leader.
The barbarian isn’t a monosyllabic idiot, but appears to be the second in command.
The “dumb” character role seems to have been given to the arcane caster, which is also not very common.

A bit early to say, but it doesn’t seem like the white main character ends up with the cute druid who is 20 years younger than he is.

Hugh Grant’s character seems to be the main antagonist, and he seems to be a rogue, rather than a wizard or a fighter.

 

[Kinematics]

I used 3e to run Castle Falkenstein.

/stares at you in horror

To do well it needs 25 million people to see it?*
So needs lots non-rpg people to go.
I'm really looking forward to it.
I hope it does very well.

* I have no idea what say $500 million box office is in terms of ' people'.

Average ticket price in the US is estimated to be about $11. (An exact value used to be reported annually, but the National Association of Theater Owners hasn't updated it since 2019.) The budget for the film is estimated at $45 million. The typical guideline for a movie to break even is to make twice its budget in sales (to account for marketing/distribution/corporate overhead/etc).

So 8.2 million people seeing the movie in the US would be the break-even point (~$90 million). There's also worldwide ticket sales, but variations in pricing make that kind of impossible to gauge how many people that represents.

For comparison, Alita: Battle Angel made $85 million in the US, so that same level of moviegoing would be the threshold for them to reach, even if worldwide sales were weak. Half-decent worldwide sales should boost it enough that it would likely be worth making a sequel.

Edit: With Ruin Explorer's estimate of $100-$150 million, the number of people seeing the movie increases by 2x to 3x, putting the total at 16-25 million, or up to at your estimate.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

The budget for the film is estimated at $45 million.

No. Google is lying to you.

That's the budget for the ORIGINAL D&D movie, that's being misreported by idiots (not you, I mean websites) and the Google.

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Starring Chris Pine looks Fine

Dungeons and Dragons have an All-star cast of Franchise worthy actors like Chris Pine, Regé-Jean Page, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sophia Lillis. This movie

popgeeks.com

"There was a Dungeons and Dragons film in the early 2000s, but it was a failure. It only made $33.8 million out of a budget of $45 million."

Just from what we're seeing I'd guess this one is in the $100m-$150m range.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

/stares at you in horror

However that is the correct reaction to someone running Castle Falkenstein with 3E lol.