The Human Target
Adventurer
Oh please no.
PG-13. Boom. Subverted.
I love D&D. I will never love a D&D movie. I say this at the risk of being hated for it.
The game might make an OK movie for players. I don’t think a D&D movie will ever really please a D&D player
Yes, exactly!All of the D&D movies that have come out so far have been high fantasy (i.e. the story takes place entirely in a magical universe), and they've been total duds. "Generic D&Dland" doesn't work unless you use some kind of portal fantasy framing device like the D&D cartoon did (and the best idea I've heard so far is to just do that—make the movie version of the D&D cartoon, because that premise actually works and shows what's unique about D&D as a concept).
You can't really do a proper D&D-branded high fantasy movie unless you set it in a decently built world: Faerûn or Oerth or Krynn or Mystara or Athas or whatever. Pick any of those and you can make a movie there. Make up a new world for the movie and it's bound to sink like a stone, unless the screenplay is a fluke gem.
I love D&D. I will never love a D&D movie. I say this at the risk of being hated for it.
I don’t think a D&D movie will ever really please a D&D player
Which right there means the odds of it being awful leap skyward.I think you're probably right, but it definitely needs the humor.
I think the OP's approach could work, though I strongly doubt they'd go hyper-violent. WotC's going to want the movie (and by extension the game) to feel kid-appropriate.
Agreed, though any DM/player/metagame references would either have to be kept infrequent and subtle (so only D&Ders catch them as they go by) or made so obvious that non-D&Ders would get it; and doing the latter very much risks wrecking the whole thing.Fourth wall breaking and references to the players, DM and metagame would absolutely make it more of a D&D movie, and less a generic fantasy movie using D&D IP.
The one thing we do have confirmed about this movie is that they are aiming for GotG style. They would have to miss that target by a very long way to hit Grimdark!Whatever direction the movie goes, I really hope it's not grimdark!