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.

 

[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.