D&D monster to the big screen?

[sniffles]

A bone golem, made out of all sorts of disparate skeletal parts.

I think they've done a flesh golem already - anybody seen "Mr. Stitch"?

A rust monster - shoot it until you run out of bullets, then throw the gun at it - and the gun dissolves into a pile of rust!!

 

[ptolemy18]

What is this, like a Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie or something? "A GROUP OF ADVENTURERS UNLEASH A TERRIFYING FORCE... MIND FLAYER."

I think it's a terrible idea, of course... but since most of the standard D&D monsters (aside from generic ones like dragons and griffons) can be considered Wizards' intellectual property, I'd be surprised if Wizards' licensing people hadn't tried it at least once. ("Does anyone want to make a movie called "Beholder"? Anyone... anyone...?")

Jason

 

[Pants]

Kython (the Planescape ones, not the lame BoVD things with no relation to the real thing)

You mean Kyton right?

The Aranaea (god, I know I spelled that wrong...) might make a decent, creepy horror monster.

 

[Dog Moon]

Otyugh. It looks weird, smells like crap [literally] and eats trash. But now...it eats people! Which I suppose it could very well consider as trash.

 

[DMH]

A movie with aboleths would have a great home next to all the other B-movies on sea monsters. Add a varient of skum where they are altered humans with recognizable features and it may be better.

I am suprised to be the first to say chaos beast. Absolutely terrifying and breeds by touch.

Stone golem that is a statue in a graveyard. Kills those who have defiled the graves.

For another B movie, how about that giant purple monkey that can shapechange into a small mammal? I think it is in the MM II.

Deepspawn for a Body Snatchers type movie.

Elementals (all 4 of them) could make interesting monsters for a movie.

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

What is this, like a Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie or something? "A GROUP OF ADVENTURERS UNLEASH A TERRIFYING FORCE... MIND FLAYER."

I think it's a terrible idea, of course... but since most of the standard D&D monsters (aside from generic ones like dragons and griffons) can be considered Wizards' intellectual property, I'd be surprised if Wizards' licensing people hadn't tried it at least once. ("Does anyone want to make a movie called "Beholder"? Anyone... anyone...?")

Jason

I'm not sure about TV, but Wizards doesn't have the film rights to D&D.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm already using Beholders as invading aliens in a Mutants & Masterminds campaign I'm designing, and I'm contemplating Illithids as a second group of invaders- no D&D involved.

I see no reason why that concept wouldn't translate well to the silver screen or the boob tube.

 

[TheYeti1775]

Mindflayers...

Watch the background characters in the the Star Wars movies you will see the mindflayers.
Bald 4 tentacled faced humanoids.

 

[Catavarie]

I'd have to vote for a Nightshade, afterall just look at the picture in the MM, it just looks like it came right out of a horror flick, what little kid, not to mention cute date, wouldn't be scared to see that on the big screen.

 

[snarfoogle]

Cue upbeat modern rock score, fast action montage of the flumph grabbing weapons,

Congratulations. You win one internet. The mental image of a Flumph grabbing guns off a rack with modern rock blaring in the background just makes me giggle.