The Superbowl commercial for the upcoming movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has been released in advance. The movie comes out on March 31st.
Do you have a source on these all being tie-ins?Well, partly because of your recent banging the drum on that, I recalled that WotC did make movie tie-in books, several if them...for the cancelled Warner Bros. movie that never happened. That’s why they squeezed the Yawning Portal awkwardly and randomly inyo TftYP, and put the Xanathar on a book cover for a smorgasbord of optional rules. Waterdeep was, apparently, the setting for that failed movie project, and Dragon Heist. Was lined up to be a big thematic tie-in.
Once biten, twice shy?
Here's an interview with Roy Lee (producer of the LEGO films) from the period around Xanathar's came out. They were dropping a bunch of little coy hints, that dies out as the WB movie fizzled and disappeared:Do you have a source on these all being tie-ins?
Heard from some industry people (who are not Paramount employees) who saw the film this week that the film is fantastic. A non D&D fan called it as epic as LotR and with as much humor as GotG, and that they completely followed and were invested in the story with NO D&D background knowledge. A D&D fan said there were 'hundreds' of small easter eggs scattered through the film and was delighted. So definitely looking like Paramount has a film that could go big with general audiences. Not shocked that they are doing a Super Bowl commercial. And it's a pretty good one!
I have a feeling we'll see the game tie-ins around the time the movie becomes available to buy on DVD/blu-ray. "This starter set Includes a free copy of HAT!" "Replay the iconic scenes from the movie with the free adventure included with the blu-ray", "This Ultimate 4K set includes a free month of Beyond and a %20 discount on the PHB from our store!"It's also a lot faster to add class symbols to a movie poster than it is to develop and publish a new starter set. If this was a mistake -- which I have bludgeoned everyone with my belief that it is -- this is a reasonable thing for them to try and fix it.
I suspect welled some Beyond exclusive freebies in March.I have a feeling we'll see the game tie-ins around the time the movie becomes available to buy on DVD/blu-ray. "This starter set Includes a free copy of HAT!" "Replay the iconic scenes from the movie with the free adventure included with the blu-ray", "This Ultimate 4K set includes a free month of Beyond and a %20 discount on the PHB from our store!"
If you ever have a stroke while posting, no one here will be able to figure out that anything's wrong.I suspect welled some Beyond exclusive freebies in March.