D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Moves Forward With Deal With Former Marvel Exec Jeremy Latcham

[Chaosmancer]

I want D&D style magic. I don't want the older brother from Onward or the Ancient One from Dr. Strange explaining how and why it works.

That's what I mean about it just happening. There's no in world explantation for swinging a sword, so no prattle about why magic works

Having just watched Onward this past week, I want to disagree with you about that one. Not in the presentation (we don't need a nerdy older brother) but in the mechanics.

"Speak from your heart's fire" is nonsense, if it means anything it means "say it with intent and desire". Then the rest is just concentrate, believe in yourself, and make sure you hold the staff.

How does magic work then? You say what you want to happen, with the intent of it happening, and focus on it happening, then it happens.

In other words, magic just happens. Which is exactly what we want, but it is placed in fancy language to make it seem more special.

 

[FlyingChihuahua]

Totally agree that shared universes must be earned. Shoot too hard for that at the beginning and it fails every time.

That being said, every film uses other films as their template. It's part of the business model. Primarily what this means is tone. They want the tone of the D&D movie to be similar to the tone and feel of Guardians.

As far as the franchise/shared universe side - those things are kind of built in for all the D&D worlds. It's never presented that the heroes we see are the only knights/wizards/etc in the entire world. The larger universe of heroes is a given and doesn't require a lot of setting up.

And if they go with my idea they could always just have "the players" playing as different characters, so it's still basically the same characters you know and (probably) enjoy.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Compared to the original movie's 35 million, that's no small chunk of change.

At 35 million, the first movie could've turned out just fine, in the hands of someone not Courtney Solomon. Even for 2000, those CGI dragons looked bad. Not to mention all the other problems.

Back when they were fighting over the rights a few years ago, it was mentioned that Warners wanted a 200-250 million budget version. The intention is to go big, and they've got a big producer. I don't think attracting talent will be a problem as long as they have a good script.

 

[Traycor]

Not a complaint, just looking at how Larian pulled the Githyanki Dragonriders from another plane into Baldurs Gate 3, so they could have some Dragons to go with the Mindflayers they apparently want as BBEG.

Speaking of which, you know the producers watched that BG3 trailer and they were like... *looks at script... *looks at trailer... *looks at script...
"Okay, we need to write something cooler!"

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I would assume the movie has quite a bit of name dropping in it. Casually mentioning Mordenkainen or the Spellplague or meeting Volothamp Geddarm. Just a bit of fan service is expected, from me at least.

 

[Traycor]

And if they go with my idea they could always just have "the players" playing as different characters, so it's still basically the same characters you know and (probably) enjoy.

Highly doubt they'll go the meta 'players playing a game' route. There are several reasons for this, but one obvious one is because Jumanji has that niche covered already. Imagine if the MCU was about kids reading comics, and those comics came to life. That would be a very different film franchise. If the Transformers films (also Hasbro) were about toys that came to life, it would be Toy Story.

All of Hasbro's properties are based off toys and games. They don't want their film franchises to be a bunch of 'games come to life' films. They just want the IPs themselves to be highlighted and popular. That means no meta.

 

[Bohandas]

I don't think it's a good idea to have a "D&D movie". You need to make a Greyhawk movie or a Dragonlance movie or a Forgotten Realms movie or a Ravenloft movie or a Spelljammer movie.

 

[Parmandur]

I don't think it's a good idea to have a "D&D movie". You need to make a Greyhawk movie or a Dragonlance movie or a Forgotten Realms movie or a Ravenloft movie or a Spelljammer movie.

It's already been established that this is a Forgotten Realms movie.

 

[Bohandas]

Oh. Cool.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Highly doubt they'll go the meta 'players playing a game' route. There are several reasons for this, but one obvious one is because Jumanji has that niche covered already. Imagine if the MCU was about kids reading comics, and those comics came to life. That would be a very different film franchise.

There was an official marvel comic about something close to that, 1985.

Marvel 1985 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

And if you think about that, it could be a good mini-serie in Disney+