D&D Movie/TV Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves Interview

[Henadic Theologian]

'Honor Among Thieves' won't "alienate" D&D newcomers, filmmakers promise

At Comic-Con, co-directors Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, and producer Jeremy Latcham reveal how they found a story in a game about a million of them.

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This is an interview with the producer and the writer/directors of the movie and it gives key insights into what they were trying to do.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I don't think there is anything new here, but for the sake of discussion:

“When you're playing a campaign, you’re never dead serious the whole time. It wouldn’t be a D&D movie if it was dark and gritty and no fun. That informed the tone that we wanted to go for.”

Whilst this is true for my table, I believe from reading forum posts that this does not hold true for all players.

I think if you go too down that Easter egg rabbit hole, you start to lose some non-fans because they start to feel, like ‘There's something going on that I don't get!

I agree with this, and I think Strange New Worlds lost my wife due to an overreliance on TOS easter eggs.

“I came up producing with Kevin Feige at Marvel, and one of the things I would say is, ‘We should save this idea for the second movie.’ Kevin would go, ‘There’s not a second movie,’” Latcham says. “If it’s a great idea, put it in the first movie.

Very much agree with this too.