I have to imagine they just really want to know what the true fans of the D&D game would see as being really important to have in a D&D movie. Putting aside of course the wants and desires of just your standard "good script / good characters / good story"... what other aspects of having D&D are a would-be requirement for D&D fans to see in a D&D movie?
I can't help but harken back to the first G. I. Joe movie... the movie itself was pretty crap on its own, but it also didn't help that the entire group of Joes were wearing the same lame-ass black outfits like we got in the first X-Men movie and NOT anything even close to what the characters looked like in the cartoons / comics / toys. It would have been so easy to put them in their standard looks, AND would have made the characters all a little more interesting to look at... but the producers got cold feet and just went "BLACK MILITARY GEAR!!!" And thus made watching that crap film even worse. People who loved G. I. Joe felt slighted, and the people who didn't care about G. I. Joe just had a bad movie.
That's the one thing that Kevin Feige and his cadre of directors and designers have gotten right over the last 14 years for Marvel... making comics-accurate costumes and acknowledging their fanbase who actually cares about this stuff. When we all saw the original Iron Man trailer back in 2007 and saw that Jon Favreau actually put the Iron Man Mark I armor into the film in order to escape the caves in Afghanistan... it told us that he actually cared about the source material that we also loved and it made us even more enthusiastic for it. It ended up being a good film regardless... but the fact it was a good film AND had comic-accurate armors AND had characters we recognized... made us fans feel much more respected.
I can't help but harken back to the first G. I. Joe movie... the movie itself was pretty crap on its own, but it also didn't help that the entire group of Joes were wearing the same lame-ass black outfits like we got in the first X-Men movie and NOT anything even close to what the characters looked like in the cartoons / comics / toys. It would have been so easy to put them in their standard looks, AND would have made the characters all a little more interesting to look at... but the producers got cold feet and just went "BLACK MILITARY GEAR!!!" And thus made watching that crap film even worse. People who loved G. I. Joe felt slighted, and the people who didn't care about G. I. Joe just had a bad movie.
That's the one thing that Kevin Feige and his cadre of directors and designers have gotten right over the last 14 years for Marvel... making comics-accurate costumes and acknowledging their fanbase who actually cares about this stuff. When we all saw the original Iron Man trailer back in 2007 and saw that Jon Favreau actually put the Iron Man Mark I armor into the film in order to escape the caves in Afghanistan... it told us that he actually cared about the source material that we also loved and it made us even more enthusiastic for it. It ended up being a good film regardless... but the fact it was a good film AND had comic-accurate armors AND had characters we recognized... made us fans feel much more respected.