D&D Movie/TV D&D 2 is possibility still

[Parmandur]

Yeah, the movie did well enough for the franchise to ride again...but another D&D movie needn't be a sequel, per se.

 

[zedturtle]

I am totally not shocked. Keep the budget down?

After Ed, Holga, and Kira have retired to have a wonderful platonic found family (i.e. not in the film, or only in a brief flashback using footage from the first movie), Simon and Doric need new recruits (i.e. fresh-faced actors that don't rate much money but did good somewhere else, hopefully the Chicago improv-scene) for the new heist. They're still thieves who rob from the rich, give to the poor, and save the world only by accident, but when Xenk Yendar (Sir Only Appearing in Budget-friendly Flashbacks) sends word that he needs help in the Dalelands, we get a title card, and an adventure to boot. There will be dungeons. There will be dragons. Maybe even a Beholder or an Illithid (live action prosthetics, of course)!

That would work, and hopefully build up a franchise where we see the new D&D month every year to start Summer. That would not be the Worst Timeline.

 

[Morrus]

So link to the Variety article, not the crappy tabloid clickbait site.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

So link to the Variety article, not the crappy tabloid clickbait site.

I changed it.

 

[mamba]

The CEO of Paramount Pics just listed about twenty movies he wished he would have spent less money on. It was the primary theme of his answers.

except that this one was about a possible sequel, not the movie itself.

I understand that they always want to spend less and I agree that the cost is very high these days, esp. with reshoots and Covid, the difference here is that he was talking about a sequel having to cost less if there is to be one. If the movie were a big success, there would not be such a requirement. We will see whether we get one and what it ultimately will cost.

All I was saying is that this statement does not support them being impressed by its performance, and I stand by that.

 

[mamba]

Yeah, the movie did well enough for the franchise to ride again...but another D&D movie needn't be a sequel, per se.

I actually would prefer if it weren’t

 

[Parmandur]

I actually would prefer if it weren’t

Still quite possible, depending on just how impressive the backend is really doing. Would live to see more along the same lines.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I actually would prefer if it weren’t

I loved DNDHAT, but given the greater success of BG3 I think instead of relying on big expensive names, then next D&D movie should be Rate R or something, like Game of Thrones would be if it was a movie.

 

[Parmandur]

I loved DNDHAT, but given the greater success of BG3 I think instead of relying on big expensive names, then next D&D movie should be Rate R or something, like Game of Thrones would be if it was a movie.

....no. That qouod be a poor decision, from both a creative and commercial point of view.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

....no. That qouod be a poor decision, from both a creative and commercial point of view.

It wasn't from BG3's POV. John Wick killed the D&D movie.