D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie - Wild Speculation and Poll

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I saw this listing Dave Arneson as a writer, but thinking the (game) part is saying he wrote the game the movie is based off of. Not sure what that means for Gary Gygax, or Blackmoor, or any talking with Dave about the movie.

Directors:​

John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein

Writers:​

Dave Arneson (game), John Francis Daley (screenplay) | 2 more credits »

Stars:​

Regé-Jean Page, Chris Pine, Sophia Lillis | See full cast & crew »

That is also IMDB, where anyone with a login can go and add and remove and edit stuff. Not much different than Wikipedia. Maybe someone with an account there should go and add Gary's name to it.

 

[Dausuul]

The Princess Bride doesn't have stakes. No one is sitting on the edge of their seats worried about the characters. It's a comedy - people enjoy it because it makes them laugh, not for the adrenaline rush.

TPB absolutely has stakes. If those stakes didn't resonate with you, that's okay (there are plenty of Very Serious Movies whose stakes do not resonate with me one little bit), but that doesn't mean it has none.

TPB is a lighthearted adventure movie in the same vein as "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Indiana Jones." It's a bit further toward the comedy end of the spectrum than those two, but it is nowhere near a straight-up comedy like "Spaceballs" or "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

 

[Dausuul]

Well he passed away over a decade ago, so he's certainly not writing the movie!

There could be a screenplay that Arneson wrote in secret, discovered posthumously, that turned out to be just what the producer was looking for.

I feel a bit doubtful that this is in fact the case. But maybe that's the frame story!

Another, slightly less wild, possibility is that the plot is based on a module Arneson wrote. Temple of the Frog?

 

[OB1]

I saw this listing Dave Arneson as a writer, but thinking the (game) part is saying he wrote the game the movie is based off of. Not sure what that means for Gary Gygax, or Blackmoor, or any talking with Dave about the movie.

Directors:​

John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein

Writers:​

Dave Arneson (game), John Francis Daley (screenplay) | 2 more credits »

Stars:​

Regé-Jean Page, Chris Pine, Sophia Lillis | See full cast & crew »

Gygax is also listed under writers, also with the (game) parenthetical next to it if to click on the "2 more credits". They are being listed because they wrote the source material that the film is based on, not because this is based on a script they wrote.

 

[Dausuul]

Gygax is also listed under writers, also with the (game) parenthetical next to it if to click on the "2 more credits". They are being listed because they wrote the source material that the film is based on, not because this is based on a script they wrote.

Well, yes, that's the obvious logical explanation. But it's also boring, and the title of this thread is "Wild Speculation," so I'm sticking with my "secret posthumous script" angle.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Chris Pine playing Tom Boyman confirmed!

Gygax is also listed under writers, also with the (game) parenthetical next to it if to click on the "2 more credits". They are being listed because they wrote the source material that the film is based on, not because this is based on a script they wrote.

 

[OB1]

Well, yes, that's the obvious logical explanation. But it's also boring, and the title of this thread is "Wild Speculation," so I'm sticking with my "secret posthumous script" angle.

Well then let's take it one step further and make it a full meta-circle!

- Daley and Goldstein received a "secret posthumous script" from Gygax and Anderson

- The movie is about a group of actors who play D&D after their shoot

- Whose characters go on an epic quest as seen in the film

- And end the quest in the Outer Planes, where they tell Gygax and Arneson the story of their adventure

- Mid credits scene - Gygax and Arneson write down the story on a scroll and send it through a Gate to Daley and Goldstein in the real world.

Bonus idea: Daley and Goldstein get the script by visiting Gygax and Arneson in their home in the Outer Planes.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

TPB absolutely has stakes. If those stakes didn't resonate with you, that's okay (there are plenty of Very Serious Movies whose stakes do not resonate with me one little bit), but that doesn't mean it has none.

TPB is a lighthearted adventure movie in the same vein as "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Indiana Jones." It's a bit further toward the comedy end of the spectrum than those two, but it is nowhere near a straight-up comedy like "Spaceballs" or "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

The difference is, the characters in Pirates and Indiana Jones are real, at least within the fiction of the movie. The only real characters in TPB are a little boy and his grandpa, and they are never in any danger. If anything bad happens to anyone grandpa can just change it.

That makes it much closer to Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

 

[M_Natas]

Chris Pine playing Tom Boyman confirmed!

Uff - that reads like a really really bad script. And the problem is not the Frame-Story ^^

 

[hopeless]

For a moment I thought they meant it was set in Blackmoor, but isn't that where Izmer was set?