D&D Movie/TV Chris Pine To Star In D&D Movie

The long, slow process towards a modern take on D&D movies took a large step forward with the announcement of a huge star signed to the project. Considering that filming is set to start soon a cascade of announcements should be revealed in initiative order imminently. Filming begins in Q1 2021.

Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley will be directing the film which features "an ensemble cast and take a subversive approach to the game."

Chris Pine In Talks To Star In ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ For eOne And Paramount; Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley Direct

Chris Pine To Star In 'Dungeons & Dragons'

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Chris Pine has closed a deal to star in Dungeons & Dragons, the live action film based on Hasbro’s massively popular role-playing game from Wizards of the Coast. Hasbro/eOne and Paramount are jointly producing and financing, with eOne distributing in the UK and Canada, and Paramount the rest of the world.

 

[grimslade]

Looking at Daley's and Goldstein's CV. Spiderman: Homecoming was considered subversive because it was MCU meets John Hughes coming of age stories. Horrible Bosses and Game Night are more traditional comedies. The television writing credits have a lot of sitcom and police procedural with a focus on ensemble casts. Subversive might be a live action D&D cartoon with Pines as Venger...

 

[Nylanfs]

I’ll let you into another secret. Generally fantasy writing isn’t very good. It tends not to win awards or receive literary approval (unless awarded by the community itself) and the fans are fairy rabid who are easily pleased as long as the books conform to certain expectations. They tend to be pretty similar and again tend to be bought by a pretty specific group of individuals.

I'll let you have your wrong opinion.

 

[Oofta]

Looking at Daley's and Goldstein's CV. Spiderman: Homecoming was considered subversive because it was MCU meets John Hughes coming of age stories. Horrible Bosses and Game Night are more traditional comedies. The television writing credits have a lot of sitcom and police procedural with a focus on ensemble casts. Subversive might be a live action D&D cartoon with Pines as Venger...

How did you know about that! Okay, well since the cat's out of the bag I can share a pre-production photo. I'll put it in a spoiler in case you want to maintain the mystery.

Spoiler

 

[TheSword]

I'll let you have your wrong opinion.

Can I ask which part is wrong?

• The fact that it has a specific set of adherents?
• The lack of literary awards or approval?
• The fans being rabid?
• Their expectations?
• The similarity of most fantasy books?

Any that you do agree with?

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I think that temporary suspension of disbelief gets you only so far. What is acceptable to you and your friends characters around a kitchen table as motivation is not necessarily gonna cut it in a film of any quality.

Oof.

Yeah, no. A general audience isn’t going to have trouble believing a group of characters seeing a thing that needs to be done and setting out to do it, because someone has to. It’s a pretty common premise that...almost no one ever questions.

Like...”real people aren’t brave so real people won’t believe brave heroes” is a helluva thing to argue.

 

[el-remmen]

Great. An actor as wooden as his name.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

If my memory doesn't fail, the copyright about the cartoon is by Disney (at least I read it in TV tropes). This means a rerun is possible in the future, but I doubt it when Hasbro still is working with Paramount.

I say it again: the target is the crowd who knows nothing about D&D. The 80's Conan movies were for people who didn't know the Hyrborian world.

* Will we see a pseudodragon as wizard's familiar? It's perfect to sell toys for children. You can bet they will try to launch a family-friendly movie, to sell all merchadicising for children, +7y at least.

Do you remember Chris Pine in the movie "the Outlaw King" (and with beard)? (let's say the sequel of Braveheart).

* I can see you a thing about being a true hero in the real life: It is not so funny, if you want the menace to end as soon as possible, and then there is not pride feeling, only relief because now everybody is safe and sound. Do you remember the fear in the final tests? It's is worse when you have to face a serious risk, and you know if you fail you will lose your own life and/or by the other. The true heroes would rather other boring day than facing a serious menace against innocent people. You have forgotten the serious stress when there are humans lives in your hands, or your own survival. Then you need the right balance between self-criticism and faith in oneself. Both are necessary but too much also can be wrong.

 

[Burnside]

Chris Pine should play the heroic in-game character of a player who is portrayed by Patton Oswalt.

 

[Dausuul]

Generally fantasy writing isn’t very good. It tends not to win awards or receive literary approval (unless awarded by the community itself) and the fans are fairy rabid who are easily pleased as long as the books conform to certain expectations. They tend to be pretty similar and again tend to be bought by a pretty specific group of individuals.

The only thing wrong with this statement is the implication that anything in it, at all, is specific to fantasy. In the immortal words of Theodore Sturgeon, responding to similar criticisms of science fiction: "90% of science fiction is crud, but 90% of everything is crud."

Your whole statement applies just as well to every genre--very much including "literary" writing. Fantasy is no better nor worse than most others. Pick any style of any art form, and you'll find a scattering of gems amid a mountain of garbage.

 

[Umbran]

I’ll let you into another secret. Generally fantasy writing isn’t very good. It tends not to win awards or receive literary approval

I'll give you another secret, "literary approval" isn't really based on being well written.

They tend to be pretty similar and again tend to be bought by a pretty specific group of individuals.

The same can be said for things that win "literary approval". Hemingway has great "literary approval", but is bought and read by a pretty specific group of individuals, too.

You don't seem to zero in on what you want as a measure of quality. In one sentence, it is critical acclaim - the assessment of some unspecified set of critics. In another, it is breadth of penetration into the reading public. Pick one - flipping back and forth between them as you feel convenient constitutes moving goalposts.