Cast the iconic D&D characters

[Klaus]

That's a really good way of looking at it, also leads to further feelings that you should be the casting director for the movie. (and in case I haven't mentioned it before, your art (in general and on the iconics) totally rocks)

Thanks!

Everyone start writing your congressman or the director of the studio of your preference! Put in the good word for me! You shall not be disappointed!

 

[glass]

I have to say, in that pic, she is hot, hot, hot.

I slightly wondered what she was doing when that picture was taken. She looks very... happy.


glass.

 

[Kaodi]

Maybe I'm Going Crazy...

...But I was thinking of possibly casting Eva Mendes as Alhandra.

This also kind of brings up the issue though, that I don't think I would make the Iconics characters in a movie. They're more like vehicles for the mechanics than real character concepts. That being said, in something of a hijack, we could change this thread to characterization and casting of a D&D movie in general...

 

[Firebeetle]

...But I was thinking of possibly casting Eva Mendes as Alhandra.

This also kind of brings up the issue though, that I don't think I would make the Iconics characters in a movie. They're more like vehicles for the mechanics than real character concepts. That being said, in something of a hijack, we could change this thread to characterization and casting of a D&D movie in general...

Yeah, that's worked so very good so far. Like whats-his-name from the first movie, or that strong-jaw-guy from the second movie. And Slugs or Snails or, whoever Marlon Wayans was playing. That guy evoked the very essence of D&D!

Sure, the iconics are vehicles for rules mechanics, but they are also the faces of D&D and deserve to be treated with more depth. And there are books on them, so they do have character treatments outside the rulebooks.

Incidentally, I started this thread with the concept in my head of making a TV series. I thought the last movie still stank as a movie, but was a decent TV show. It could still be low budget but watchable. Who are the characters, the D&D iconics of course. But there are so many you say? That's good, because we are going to do this "Mission Impossible" (the TV show) style with rotating characters AND many of them die or otherwise changed in the series. This allows you a lot of flexibility and unpredictibility in writing the show. It also allows you to cast young actors as halflings and gnomes and then either rotate them out or kill them as they age. Lidda's funeral, I can see it now. . .

Each season of thirteen shows revolves around three adventure ideas, four or five episodes per adventure storyline. Some classic element to tie them together in the first place, like the Rod of Nine Parts or classic modules such as Against the Giants or the Slavelords series or some such. I think D&Ds history and iconics should really be USED to generate a unique feel. This includes classic monsters (beholder, displacer beast, mind flayers) and epic characters (Mordenkainen, et al.)

Now I have to contact all my Hollywood contacts to seal the deal. Laugh if you want, I know the guy that did the storyboards for "The Golem"; that was a big, big, direct-to-video release that was! I'll have Joel Silver's home telephone number any day now. . .just you wait. . .

 

[Ranger REG]

And Slugs or Snails or, whoever Marlon Wayans was playing. That guy evoked the very essence of D&D!

Snails is the very essence of D&D?!?!!!

Is Firebeetle an alias for Courtney Solomon?

 

[Klaus]

Hey, Firebeetle, I call dibs on the Casting Director job!

I agree that if you have any mythology associated with your property, you should use it. Case in point: the Catwoman movie. Why call it Catwoman if she's not Selina Kyle, doesn't leap about Gotham City and tries to swoon/escape Batman?

Glass -> Re; Kristin Kreuk picture: she's rubbing herself against a rock singer in a movie about 4 youngsters who travel to Europe. One of the youngsters is Michelle "Dawn Summers" Trachtenberg, who dressed *very* skimpily in this movie.

 

[Soel]

For Lidda: Ellen Page

I saw X-Men 3 over the weekend and thought "oh my god, that's Lidda!"

Demiurge out.

Yes indeed!

 

[Firebeetle]

Snails is the very essence of D&D?!?!!!

Is Firebeetle an alias for Courtney Solomon?

You found me out! They're not going to let me direct another movie after "An American Haunting" so I'm shooting to do D&D on the little screen! Yeah. All this iconic talk is crap, I'm using characters and setting from my personal campaign I started when I was eleven! I'm planning on casting ALL the Wayans brothers and Snails family in the show, including characters called Slugs and Leech. If there is one thing the Wayans understand, it's D&D!

 

[Kaodi]

Most Important Characters

Anyway, if we were going to make a D&D movie or television series, featuring the iconics, the most important characters to get " right " are going to be Jozan, Vadania, Alhandra, Eberk and... and... anyone else who features some sort of religious ideal as part of their characterization. In this particular case, perhaps Alhandra becomes the most important character to get " right " , because we will all be counting on her adherance to the paladin's code of honour to keep those pesky self-pious religious censors off of ours backs. I know this is skirtting a little close to the precipitous drop past what is allowed for discussion, but it *is* integral to the success or failure of a production featuring these types of characters. If you are just going to gloss over it, then you aren't really being Iconic.

 

[drothgery]

Of course, to knock things down to a reasonable case, we should probably knock this down to the clasic D&D four-person party of divine caster, arcane caster, warrior, skill guy, and then maybe one extra.

So we get one each from...

warriors
Alhandra the paladin
Ember the monk
Krusk the barbarian
Regdar the fighter
Soveliss the ranger
Tordek the fighter

skill guys
Devis the bard
Gimble the bard
Kerwyn the rogue
Lidda the rogue

divine casters
Eberk the cleric
Jozan the cleric
Vadania the druid

arcane casters
Hennet the sorcerer
Mialee the wizard
Nebin the illusionist
Naull the wizard

So I'd go with Alhandra, Lidda, Jozan, and Mialee for the classic four, and then maybe Gimble, Devis, or Soveliss to round things out? Not Ember, though; then the movie would be "Jozan's Angels"...