D&D Movie/TV Watch This Honor Among Thieves Clip (With a Cameo from the D&D Cartoon Adventurers!)

Paramount has shared a clip of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The 3-minute scene features the heroes navigating an arena maze, a displacer beast, a mimic, a gelatinous cube, the D&D cartoon characters, and Hugh Grant's villainous Forge Fitzwilliam.

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[Tonguez]

Man, Bobby got ooollldddd....

Yeah I noticed that too, I figured the kids never got home and really have been stuck there a long long time

 

[pukunui]

Man, Bobby got ooollldddd....

Without really getting any taller.

 

[LordEntrails]

I'm not sure how people in the arens seats can see the action? No wonder he asks them to stay till the end. People probably get board cause the action is all blocked by maze walls.

Magic... If you are in the seats, you can see through the walls.

 

[MarkB]

Can I get that arena, but built into a tabletop?

 

[bedir than]

Can I get that arena, but built into a tabletop?

It's called the One D&D 3D VTT

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Well this looks like a very cool sequence for moviegoers... but I suspect the arena audience is pretty bored by watching people disappear into a maze for several minutes.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Well this looks like a very cool sequence for moviegoers... but I suspect the arena audience is pretty bored by watching people disappear into a maze for several minutes.

Only those in the lower levels. Those in the higher levels would have good views down and in.

And that's assuming there isn't some sort of magic that either allows them to see through the walls, or follow the action from above or inside the maze.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

<Posts clickbaity blog griping about how the movie has no respect for displacer beast rules and the producers can't be trusted>

j/k, looks great.

Only thing that surprised me was Neverwinter having lethal blood sports.

They were explicitly outlawed because they were too bloodsporty, Forge just decided to bring them back.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Only those in the lower levels. Those in the higher levels would have good views down and in.

And that's assuming there isn't some sort of magic that either allows them to see through the walls, or follow the action from above or inside the maze.

While they do cheat it to make that look like the case at about the 1:49 mark when it goes out to the crowd, by making the walls only about twice as high as the passages (and walls) are wide, and only giving us the displacer beast for scale (a creature we have only a loose sense of the scale of), in all the inside the maze scenes the walls are like 10 foot high and the passages are comparatively narrower.. Note how rarely you can see the crowd from any shot in the maze. Unless they have magic jumbotron video I don't think the crowd can see much at all, even from very high seats.

But then again in the actual middle ages the main event of a medieval tournament was a mock battle taking place over several miles where much of the action was out of sight of any assembled audience. A society without video entertainment is more accustomed to not actually being able to see things. It just seems extraordinary that someone would build a whole magic rising floor arena just to make it harder for people to see the bloodsport they were presenting.

And for the record I think it's a pretty cool looking sequence. I just think it's funny that the filmmakers prioritized the dramatic visuals of very high walls over the actual function of the thing they were presenting. 6 or 7 foot spiked walls and somewhat wider passages would keep the participants equally contained while letting the audience see much more of what was happening.

 

[damiller]

im so proud of the fact that I knew that was a displacer beast, and I haven't played D&D in decades!!!