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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 7994988" data-attributes="member: 6906155">It gets the film company out of controversial territory, but it puts the writers into a difficult spot - why save the people of the FR when they treat obviously nice guy Drizzt so badly?And frankly, Drizzt is not a sufficiently well known character outside of the geek bubble to open a movie. None of the established FR characters are. There was a time, when D&D was down, when Drizzt had better name recognition than D&D (in Geekland). But now D&D is up and Salvatore is down (the latest Drizzt novel is ranked at 36,900 on Amazon UK).But that's not a problem, people did not go to see Iron Man because they knew about and liked the character (outside the USA the character was a complete unknown, with the name referring to a completely different character in the UK). They went to see an inherently interesting character well played by a talented actor.If you want to use drow characters, then Jarlaxle and Viconia are both better options. Jarlaxle is not "good" but he is intelligent, charming an charismatic, and prone to using the heal face revolving door. Viconia - film audiences won't see the "neutral evil" on her character sheet, and she is very much on the side of the heroes. But she is arrogant and sexist enough that the audience will understand why she is not popular!</blockquote>