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Totally agree that shared universes must be earned. Shoot too hard for that at the beginning and it fails every time. That being said, every film uses other films as their template. It's part of the business model. Primarily what this means is tone. They want the tone of the D&D movie to be...

I mean developing that story as their movie.

If Hasbro wants to go big, maybe they'll analyze the history of the franchise and decide that the Baldur's Gate games are a high point in popularity. They might start adapting those stories/characters. Minsc and Boo certainly have a Drax/Groot/Guardians type of feel.

It's fine if it didn't work for you, but in the theater audiences sure seemed to love it. I do think the discussion is relevant to the topic because we're discussing how they might use characters. Marvel is the strongest reference we have right now, both because of the team's experience and the...

The concept of the story (half of everyone wiped out) is already heavy and dark for a movie that's meant for both adults and children. You have to have something to lighten the tone while still acknowledging that this character has all this trauma. I thought this was an excellent way to do both...

This producer made the Marvel films for the last 13 years, and the writers worked with Marvel on Spider-Man. Purely speculating here, but at Marvel they heavily value the source material, but adapt it constantly into something new. They didn't just make up whole new characters and storylines...

Was there an actual deal in place for that? I know he turned in a screenplay and proposed a project, but I don't think it ever moved forward.

They probably want this to be their next Transformers, and they said as much back when the rights were being hammered out. They expect this to be a big, shared universe tentpole franchise with spinoff films, etc...

In one of the older articles from over a year ago it said they wanted a tone similar to Guardians of the Galaxy. That means this team makes sense.

Seems to be steadily moving forward. That's a huge producer to add, and one would imagine the directors have delivered a few drafts of their script by now.

Disagree with the author's conclusions about the movie news: "...Hollywood trades’ ability to make news out of nothing after Deadline reported that Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are in talks to direct the Dungeons & Dragons movie." Combined with the previous news that the studio...

Orthodox hermeneutics always interpreted Goliath to be a gibbor, or rephaim giant (i.e. not human). It's only in recent modern times that the traditional interpretation has become unpopular (because it involves the supernatural) so he has been reinterpreted as a tall human. The human...

Analyzing individual films is always difficult, because the studio conceals the real budget and marketing costs. Sometimes they fudge the numbers higher to make a film look more expensive, while sometimes they drastically lower the numbers below the actual cost to make a film look profitable...

These used to be bonus money, but now they are what makes a film profitable. Take Spider-Verse for example, which was considered successful and has already spawned sequels. It cost $90 million, plus a likely $100 million in marketing. So $190 cost, which would require $380 million to break even...

The story from Screenrant is quoting an exclusive story from ThatHashtagShow. In the original article they state they want to start filming in late summer/early fall. That's only 3-5 months away. If they expect to start filming in as little as three months, that is a VERY tight timeline. You...

A 250 million film costs 150 to 250 in marketing. So on the low end that's 400 million. The studio only gets half the box office, so you're looking at 800 million to break even. But China only gives about 25% instead of half, so you actually need more than 800 million to break even. There have...

Absolutely agree.

That's true, but those timelines are usually set out a year or two because things are not firm. The original story that Screenrant credited as their source from ThatHashtagShow says that the execs were "buzzing" and set a shooting date window in as little as three months. That means several...

A while back, they wanted a tone like Guardians of the Galaxy for an ensemble movie, and it sounded like brand new characters/story set in the Forgotten Realms with the possibility of bringing in other D&D properties/worlds in future films. Since that time, a new writer has reworked the script...

David Leslie Johnson wrote the script. Michael Gillio has since done a rewrite, which can mean anything from changing things up to a complete do-over from the Johnson version. It sounds as if Michael Gillio will be credited as the writer.