Dungeons and Dragons 2

[Chimera]

Muppet D&D, by Quentin Tarentino

Yeah, that's what I want to see. (riffing on my earlier post)

Kermit as the young Paladin. Miss Piggie as the Monk. Fozzie the inept Wizard, Gonzo the Rogue.

Special appearance by the Swedish Cleric.

Of course, since it's a QT film, it will be bloody as all hell. Definitely not for children. Muppet blood and fur everywhere. Everyone dies.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Muppet D&D, by Quentin Tarentino

Yeah, that's what I want to see. (riffing on my earlier post)

Kermit as the young Paladin. Miss Piggie as the Monk. Fozzie the inept Wizard, Gonzo the Rogue.

Special appearance by the Swedish Cleric.

Of course, since it's a QT film, it will be bloody as all hell. Definitely not for children. Muppet blood and fur everywhere. Everyone dies.

Sounds like a great idea. I would watch it. I think Muppets are underused. (Farscape and the Angel episode where he turned into a muppet clearly show this)

 

[Ranger REG]

Off-topic

Yep. For those wondering what kind of job Fireworks could've done on the Forgotten Realms tv show, just check the Andromeda thread in this same forum. Andromeda was done by Fireworks, as well, and it was royally gimped by them.

Mmm. From what I hear, Fireworks was mainly a distribution outlet for Andromeda. SCI-FI, I believe, has taken the role of distributor.

But if you're referring to the quality of the show that prompted Robert Hewitt Wolfe to depart, that would have to be Mrs. Roddenberry's production company with Kevin Sorbo as the show's executive producer.

 

[Yraen]

D&D 2

Having just seen Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban and The Return of the King, any D&D movie now has no excuse for the...erm...rather dodgy looking special effects of the first. The hippogriff in HPTPA was great, while as everyone knows, the various creatures brought to life in The Lord of the Rings were spectacular.

I just pray that D&D 2 can do justcie to whatever monsters it features.

 

[tecnowraith]

Having just seen Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban and The Return of the King, any D&D movie now has no excuse for the...erm...rather dodgy looking special effects of the first. The hippogriff in HPTPA was great, while as everyone knows, the various creatures brought to life in The Lord of the Rings were spectacular.

I just pray that D&D 2 can do justcie to whatever monsters it features.

Ahh you got to go to the premiere didn't you? Lucky dog!

 

[Zappo]

According to imdb.com:

Harry Potter and tPoA had a budget of 130 million dollars.

D&D had a budget of 35 million dollars.

D&D2 has a budget of 15 million dollars.

Still hoping for good effects?

 

[Ranger REG]

Having just seen Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban and The Return of the King, any D&D movie now has no excuse for the...erm...rather dodgy looking special effects of the first.

You forgot to mention Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. The film have some good effect, and a good story that is full of romps.

Of course, that doesn't mean we should cast Keith Richard* as Blackstaff.

*Johnny Depp based his Jack Sparrow character after the Rolling Stones guitarist.

 

[barsoomcore]

Great, another year of "Ohh, you are playing Dungeons&Dragons, aren't you? Yeah, I know about that stuff. I saw the movie."

Well, that'd be change from, "Dungeons and Dragons? Wasn't there a movie about that? Or something?" At least you're suggesting that people will actually SEE this one.

$15 million is a pretty silly amount of money to make a movie with. It can be done, but not the Hollywood way. In a way, I'm intrigued. Lower resources CAN encourage more creativity. Or ensure a complete failure to get anything done very well.

But then I really like the first movie. Much better than Pirates of the Carribean, says I.

Lots can happen in Hollywood. I'll believe it when it's in the can. Or at least when they start shooting. Or at least have a cast member. Or a writer. There's a lot of roadblocks to overcome before this picture gets made. THEN we can start panicking.

My number one concern is that they get a new costume designer. Did you see what that elf ranger was wearing? What the hell was that? I remember she came on screen and I turned to my friend and said, "What the F%*K is she wearing?" It's now become shorthand for us to refer to any confusingly bad aspect of a movie. Seriously, what the heck was that thing she was wearing?

That was WAY WORSE than the beholder. What was that thing?

 

[Ranger REG]

But then I really like the first movie. Much better than Pirates of the Carribean, says I.

To each his or her own. For me, I enjoyed Pirates more than D&D simply because I can watch it without having a gag reflex come up every 5 minutes or so.

So, you pretty much know which one ended up in my DVD collections.

As for the wardrobe, they should take notes from Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor. I don't mean to copy their works, just understand how they go about designing such elaborate and functioning costumes.

I wonder if Peter Jackson got some kind of film production classes in New Zealand.

 

[Zappo]

$15 million is a pretty silly amount of money to make a movie with. It can be done, but not the Hollywood way. In a way, I'm intrigued. Lower resources CAN encourage more creativity. Or ensure a complete failure to get anything done very well.

My feelings exactly. With such a low budget, this movie is treading on a razorblade.