D&D Movie/TV Dungeons & Dragons 3 Movie Trailer

[Remathilis]

I mean c'mon Battleship got a movie!

Did you see the reviews? Not the best comparison made.

 

[Tortoise]

TO: WotC/Hasbro
SUBJECT: Rescue of your ip from idiot film studio and production of better movies.

Buy back the rights. Take the loss. Then hire Joss Whedon and his capable people to build a new franchise around the name. Give him the budget needed to get it going. That is all.

 

[Klaus]

I think Wizards was involved in this movie -- they mentioned it frequently in their promo material for Book of Vile Darkness, and I also recall seeing mention of a contest to have a character generated by one of their customers included in the movie. I had forgotten about all that until I saw this thread.

I'd chalk that up to "life -> lemons -> lemonade".

 

[Alzrius]

I'd chalk that up to "life -> lemons -> lemonade".

It's still the wrong approach to take. The proper approach is as follows:

When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

 

[BriarMonkey]

Oh! God! No!

 

[varden]

wow....I've seen better acting in fanfic films...

Honest to God, dude, I thought this was a fan film!

Straight to video then?

 

[Kaodi]

I think I am going to stick with the hope that Dungeons & Dragons' luck with movies is just a phase, similar to the phase that saw many horrible movies based on comic books before, say, the advent of the Raimi/Maguire Spider-Man.

I mean, really. Take Game of Thrones, take out some of the vulgarity, add in more overt magic, bigger dungeons, and jump to the part where the dragons are huge, and you are there!

 

[Fifth Element]

Honest to God, dude, I thought this was a fan film!

Straight to video then?

Unless I'm missing something, Syfy movie = never intended as a theatrical release.

 

[Aberzanzorax]

Did you see the reviews? Not the best comparison made.

Yes, but Battleship has a 34% tomatometer and a 56% of fans liking it.

The original Dungeons and Dragons has a 10% tomatometer and 26% of fans liking it.


It's THAT bad.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Looks a 'tad' disappointing...and I'm a big fan of the second movie.

...I really should finish the full script based on my D&D movie synopsis:

Immortality

 

[kitsune9]

I don't know about this one really. On one hand, I thought the first two movies were campy, but they were watchable. I think this one will be watchable as well, but definitely not worthy of name D&D. I think it's more aptly named Cheap Fantasy Movie 3: Book of Vile Darkness.

For the life of me, I have no idea why none of WotC's books that made the NY Times best seller list were never optioned for scripts. I would have at least started there. The other approach is look at the video games that did really well under license (w.g. Planescape Torment would be my choice to do a movie).

 

[Sonofapreacherman]

Please release this movie direct to VHS, and only VHS.

 

[Remathilis]

Yes, but Battleship has a 34% tomatometer and a 56% of fans liking it.

The original Dungeons and Dragons has a 10% tomatometer and 26% of fans liking it.


It's THAT bad.

So its better to be a six-inch turd rather than a 10 inch?

 

[Aberzanzorax]

Ok, point.

 

[Tsuga C]

Ugh!

This is just all kinds of bad, rolled in pointlessness, and steeped in insipidness. And folks wonder why few people over the age of 14 will openly acknowledge being fans of RPGs.

 

[Tsuga C]

The other approach is look at the video games that did really well under license (w.g. Planescape Torment would be my choice to do a movie).

Hear, hear! Planescape came along too late in the scheme of things for TSR to do it true justice, but P:T is a cult classic. I do wonder, though, if the various philosophical and moral absolutes of the Outer Planes would go over well with the masses who've been steeped in a fair bit of relativism throughout their lives. The factions would challenge them, too.

Still, I think it'd be a grand idea to put P:T on the silver screen.

 

[GhostBear]

What has been seen cannot be unseen... What an atrocity. The people producing this movie are bad and should feel bad.

 

[frankthedm]

Great, they are reusing the mud and dirt dragon from the second movie.

Did you see the reviews? Not the best comparison made.

AT least Battleship had an FX budget and some picture quality. This dingy, desaturated POS hurts to look at even before the CG.

 

[RedShirtNo5.1]

Doesn't the scriptwriter sometimes post on EN World? Or am I confusing myself?

 

[Quickleaf]

The other approach is look at the video games that did really well under license (w.g. Planescape Torment would be my choice to do a movie).

Hear, hear! Planescape came along too late in the scheme of things for TSR to do it true justice, but P:T is a cult classic. I do wonder, though, if the various philosophical and moral absolutes of the Outer Planes would go over well with the masses who've been steeped in a fair bit of relativism throughout their lives. The factions would challenge them, too.

Still, I think it'd be a grand idea to put P:T on the silver screen.

I've seen it repeated on multiple sites that Planescape Torment sold 400,000 copies, whereas its predecessor Baldur's Gate sold 5 million copies, across various forms (as of 2006). Now that doesn't include digital copies since Torment only became available on GOG in 2009/2010, but consensus seems to be that it was an outstanding game with rather mediocre sales.

So while I love Planescape Torment, I'm not sure it's a winning bet for a big screen adaptation.