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 is negotiating 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 Param…

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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.

 

[embee]

Oh, and there was this as well. Basically, these are not going to be low budget movies like we got before. Doesn't mean they'll be good or bad, but at least (for me) there's hope.

Dungeons and Dragons will be one of the first projects that’s part of Hasbro’s AllSpark Pictures, through which the toy company hopes to start churning out Marvel Cinematic Universe-level competition. Other upcoming projects under the label include the G.I. Joe spinoff Snake Eyes and Micronauts.​

That's an old press release. AllSpark was rolled into eOne in October 2020.

Right now, the question is not whether there will be a theatrical release but whether theaters will still exist. Movie theater chains were excluded from the COVID bill, which is why AMC is trading around $2.50 right now.

 

[Oofta]

That's an old press release. AllSpark was rolled into eOne in October 2020.

Right now, the question is not whether there will be a theatrical release but whether theaters will still exist. Movie theater chains were excluded from the COVID bill, which is why AMC is trading around $2.50 right now.

I could also ask how far away we are from the alien AI nanotech plague zombie apocalypse. My point with the post is that they are currently targeting big budget releases. Predicting the death of movies as we know them is a bit premature IMHO, there's too much money there and COVID restrictions will pass eventually.

Of course, if big budget releases never happen then maybe we'll have to settle for a TV/streamed show which I would be perfectly fine with.

 

[Richards]

Other upcoming projects under the label include the G.I. Joe spinoff Snake Eyes and Micronauts.

I could get behind a well-done Micronauts movie. I'd be down with either live-action or CGI like The Lego Movie and its sequels.

Johnathan

 

[darjr]

I could also ask how far away we are from the alien AI nanotech plague zombie apocalypse. My point with the post is that they are currently targeting big budget releases. Predicting the death of movies as we know them is a bit premature IMHO, there's too much money there and COVID restrictions will pass eventually.

Of course, if big budget releases never happen then maybe we'll have to settle for a TV/streamed show which I would be perfectly fine with.

All that’s happened in 2020 and you still don’t get it. The nanobots thing already happened when the collider smashed us into an alternate reality. Now we are just programs in an elaborate simulation. A very bad one designed by an AI that used to be a toaster and it thinks this is great fun.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Oh, and there was this as well. Basically, these are not going to be low budget movies like we got before. Doesn't mean they'll be good or bad, but at least (for me) there's hope.

Universal's Dark Universe is hoping someone will take the heat off them one of these days.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I could get behind a well-done Micronauts movie. I'd be down with either live-action or CGI like The Lego Movie and its sequels.

The rights to the Marvel Micronauts characters and setting belong to Marvel, right?

 

[Richards]

The characters made up for the comic - Bug and Marionette and so on? I'd imagine they still have those rights. I'm not so sure about the setting, though, as a lot of times those rights are granted only for a set amount of time and then revert. Marvel did some cool things with the Rom franchise, for example, but they no longer have the rights to Rom: Spaceknight so they don't reprint books that have him in it. So I'm not sure if Disney, owning Marvel, could make a Micronauts movie using the default setting and characters (Acroyear, Baron Karza, etc.) from the toy line without purchasing those rights separately.

Johnathan

 

[TheSword]

A film can have both comedy and Pathos. In fact the juxtaposition of both can be very powerful.

Believe it or not I’ve just watched It’s a Wonderful Life for the first time in 41 years... as it’s Christmas. Comedy right through and yet tears flowed.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

A film can have both comedy and Pathos. In fact the juxtaposition of both can be very powerful.

Billy Shakespeare definitely believed that.

 

[Azzy]

then we can have Vin Diesel on board to play a himself a socially inept mountain dwarf.

Nah, we'd have Vin play a Goliath (which are Vin Diesel—the Race).

 

[Azzy]

Why would Hasbro want to blow up the budget like that?

Well, the had Michael Bay blow everything else up...

 

[doctorbadwolf]

That's an old press release. AllSpark was rolled into eOne in October 2020.

Right now, the question is not whether there will be a theatrical release but whether theaters will still exist. Movie theater chains were excluded from the COVID bill, which is why AMC is trading around $2.50 right now.

Every theater chain in the world could go under, and movie theaters would still exist/come back.

It’s stupid that they were excluded from the bill, but it’s more likely that drive in theaters will come back and become the dominant form of theater, than that movie theaters of some kind just won’t exist.

Pre-set seating will become the norm (like at AMC theaters already), with fewer seats in the same sized space, and places that don’t do anything but show a movie will fail, while places to sell real food and booze and high quality chairs will become the norm.

Adding sanitization to the cleaning process between showings isn’t a big deal. The biggest structural hurdle is changing how the air is moved through the system, or using much more expensive air filtration.

We will see theater chains go under, and when the vaccine is widespread and things are closer to the old normal, new companies will buy up and renovate those old theaters.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

We have to remember the main goal is to promote the brand. Do you remeber "the queen's gambit"? After this lots of chess games have been sold.

No one set out to make a film promoting Chess. No one owns Chess, there is no profit to be made by promoting it.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I mentioned "the Queen's Gambit" as an example about how media productions can affect the game enternaiment industry even when it was not the original intention. Other famous example is the revival of Transformers franchise thanks Michael Bay's movies. The line was not totally dead, but after the action-live movies it is living a second golden age, maybe these are the best years for the IP.

After the acquisition of Enternaiment-One I guess Hasbro is wishing to buy more cinema studios, maybe the next one will be MGM. Hasbro still is still learning about how to produce the right blockbuster movie to promote all its franchises.

And I have the feeling something is going to happen in 2021 and AT&T and Disney are going to be very affected, and not only the economic damages by the epidemic but also other type of troubles. This means the complete enternaiment industry will be not the same.