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'

deadline.com

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.

 

[Ravenbrook]

You can make comedy without parody (e.g. Guardians of the Galaxy) or parody without comedy (Knives Out). They are not the same thing at all.

But any reference to D&D mechanics, no matter how oblique, would kill any attempt to make a deadly serious movie. You can make a serious fantasy movie, but it would not be a D&D movie*. Conan the Barbarian is a serious fantasy movie, but Conan the Destroyer is much more D&D-like.

And the world has turned since Game of Thrones, the current entertainment climate if for light-hearted escapism, people have enough Grimdark in their real lives.



*You might make a deadly serious "isekai" movie, as @LuisCarlos17f terms it. The Bridge of Terabithia could fall into this category. That would be my pet "I would absolutely hate this" idea though.

That's why I can't ever imagine a Dragonlance movie. Having kender in a film would make it a disgusting and nightmarish horror movie for me!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Maybe for the revival of Dragonlance the best option to test some retcons is a game-live podcast show as Critical Role, and a player with a "different" kender.

 

[glass]

My guess is that it will either be the sort of thing we'd see a crusader use in a movie, or something closer to a classic "viking sword", ie something very familiar, or something weird and unique and quite fantasy. I would be happy with a rapier, but I don't have the bias against them that some dnd players do.

Apologies if this is not strictly on topic, but how and why would anyone have a bias against a particular kind of sword?

_
glass.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Apologies if this is not strictly on topic, but how and why would anyone have a bias against a particular kind of sword?

_
glass.

Ask someone who hates rapiers?

 

[Oofta]

Apologies if this is not strictly on topic, but how and why would anyone have a bias against a particular kind of sword?

_
glass.

Not Mr Wolf, but I've always assumed it has more to do with the ubiquity of dex builds than the actual weapon itself. The fact that you can get a one-handed sword that does the same amount of damage as a long sword just feels wrong to some people.

But ... I don't worry about it too much personally. Unless you were fighting an unarmored opponent your sword was more symbolic than anything anyway if you have the technological level that D&D assumes. Swords are cooler looking than pikes though so it's what we get. D&D (and mass media in general for that matter) has never represented weapons particularly well.

 

[bedir than]

Dungeons And Dragons to start filming at Belfast’s Titanic Studios

Richard Williams, chief executive of Northern Ireland Screen, described the production as a great start to 2021 after a challenging 2020.

uk.sports.yahoo.com

The studio booked for D&D over in Belfast is most well known for the 2nd largest fantasy video property ever - Game of Thrones

 

[Gradine]

Ask someone who hates rapiers?

It's times like this I miss having lowkey around

 

[Zardnaar]

Rapiers not a battlefield weapon I suppose.

Makes sense in places like Bravos in GoT not so much elsewhere.

Not exactly a purist though and it depends on the tone of the movie.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

It's times like this I miss having lowkey around

Me too!

 

[Oofta]

In honor of the fallen lowkey13, wherever they are. The most awesome rapier wielder ever.