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<blockquote data-quote="M_Natas" data-source="post: 8224938" data-attributes="member: 7025918">I really hope it doesn't use a frame device. If it is players sitting around the table, it would deflate any real tension the movie might have. It would kill a movie like any &quot;It was just a dream&quot;-surprise ending. You gain nothing by doing it that way (unless you are doing a comedy like The Guild)And If they go the Jumanji-Route and have the players getting sucked in to the game they really need to be better at that than Jumanji, which is pretty hard.If they don't do a straight High-Fantasy/Light hearted fantasy like LotR or the original Conan-Movies, they would need to have excellent writing to compensate for the structural weakness of a framing device. The would need to be princess bride-level of writing and I don't see that happening, unless they get somebody like Terry Gilliam to write and direct.If they go the comedy route, they need at least &quot;Enchanted&quot;-levels of writing to make it work, even more so that the tropes Enchanted makes fun of are more commonly known than the D&amp;D-TRPG-Tropes. Here it could work with a framing of D&amp;D Players sitting on the table, but again - for that to work you need the higest level of writing and not the guys who made the medicoremovies vacation and game night (I enjoyed those movies, but they are medicore at best).A light hearted fantasy would just need a marvel cinematic universe level of writing - which is something that is achievable for the two writers that are attachted to the project, if they give their best.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="M_Natas, post: 8224938, member: 7025918"] I really hope it doesn't use a frame device. If it is players sitting around the table, it would deflate any real tension the movie might have. It would kill a movie like any "It was just a dream"-surprise ending. You gain nothing by doing it that way (unless you are doing a comedy like The Guild) And If they go the Jumanji-Route and have the players getting sucked in to the game they really need to be better at that than Jumanji, which is pretty hard. If they don't do a straight High-Fantasy/Light hearted fantasy like LotR or the original Conan-Movies, they would need to have excellent writing to compensate for the structural weakness of a framing device. The would need to be princess bride-level of writing and I don't see that happening, unless they get somebody like Terry Gilliam to write and direct. If they go the comedy route, they need at least "Enchanted"-levels of writing to make it work, even more so that the tropes Enchanted makes fun of are more commonly known than the D&D-TRPG-Tropes. Here it could work with a framing of D&D Players sitting on the table, but again - for that to work you need the higest level of writing and not the guys who made the medicoremovies vacation and game night (I enjoyed those movies, but they are medicore at best). A light hearted fantasy would just need a marvel cinematic universe level of writing - which is something that is achievable for the two writers that are attachted to the project, if they give their best. [/QUOTE]

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