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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8149005" data-attributes="member: 5948">That sounds like they're very much playing it safe, to be honest.&nbsp; Going the MCU/Indiana Jones/Pirates of the Caribbean/Brendan Fraser's Mummy route, big PG-rated FX adventure with quips.&nbsp; The prospect profoundly fails to thrill me, but the intended audience is a third of my age, so it doesn't really matter what i think.Regardless, if they're trying to go this sort of quasi-comedic dialogue-driven thing, they absolutely must must must nail the characters.&nbsp; This isn't like MCU when most people have at least heard of Captain America before seeing the film, or Buffy where you've got a whole season of TV for the audience to get to know the characters.&nbsp; You're trying to establish all the characters from scratch (and there has to be a group of at least quasi-equal characters for it to be D&amp;D, one hero and his sidekicks won't cut it) and tell the story at the same time, in a ~100 minute film.&nbsp; It's not going to be easy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8149005, member: 5948"] That sounds like they're very much playing it safe, to be honest. Going the MCU/Indiana Jones/Pirates of the Caribbean/Brendan Fraser's Mummy route, big PG-rated FX adventure with quips. The prospect profoundly fails to thrill me, but the intended audience is a third of my age, so it doesn't really matter what i think. Regardless, if they're trying to go this sort of quasi-comedic dialogue-driven thing, they absolutely must must [I]must [/I]nail the characters. This isn't like MCU when most people have at least heard of Captain America before seeing the film, or Buffy where you've got a whole season of TV for the audience to get to know the characters. You're trying to establish all the characters from scratch (and there has to be a group of at least quasi-equal characters for it to be D&D, one hero and his sidekicks won't cut it) and tell the story at the same time, in a ~100 minute film. It's not going to be easy. [/QUOTE]

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