Dungeons & Dragons: The Sequel

[KenM]

Halflings and Gnomes could be difficult though

Look at how they did the hobbits in the LOTR movies, they used every single trick to make the normal sized actors look hobbit sized. It can be done. I'm not saying the DnD sequel should be on par with the LOTR movies, but they can use some of the same tricks.

 

[tecnodemon]

Yeah but must those tricks cost money to make, like hiring doubles, the sets, costumes for both regular and the mini dooubles and the film to the shots. I am thinking on the budget what the D&D movie would get and what LOTR got for the first film.

 

[Black Omega]

The forced perspective shots are cheap, though. It's really just a matter of having the actors standing in the right spots and looking where it looks like the other person is, not where they really are.

 

[Usurper]

I see a bunch of mentions about the director, but be fair: the casting, acting, writing, cgi, and editing were all lousy, too. I can't remember ANYTHING that was good about the first movie, although somebody said they remembered some impressive murals from one of the sets.

 

[Angcuru]

The first film really brought home to me why it was called a Breastplate, as regards the female Elf Ranger type, IYKWIMAITYD.

A Good Drow ranger, no less.

 

[JChung2003]

I see a bunch of mentions about the director, but be fair: the casting, acting, writing, cgi, and editing were all lousy, too. I can't remember ANYTHING that was good about the first movie, although somebody said they remembered some impressive murals from one of the sets.

When that much of a movie stinks to high heaven, you can blame it on the producers (the people in charge of running the whole operation). Since the director was also a producer...

Judging from the interview of Courtney Solomon that I read, I would say that he was a Hollywood newbie who was thoroughly overwhelmed by the filmmaking process and who completely overestimated what he could do with his budget. I wouldn't be surprised if his eyes boggled when he found out how much money he was going to get to make the movie and that his eyes dropped out of their sockets when he finally realized just how much money it would take to make the film he actually wanted to make (lot more than what he had).

The writers did such a poor job with the script, but they were just as much unproven novices as the director was. They got some decent actors for the first movie, but actors aren't alchemists; they can't turn a lame script and bad special effects into something worth watching.

Saying the second movie will be better than the first is not saying anything. Saying the second movie might be good because the first one was so bad is lunacy.

The only hope for the movie is if Mr. Solomon actually learned from the making of the first picture (and it sounds like he might have). That's no guarantee that the second picture will be anything that we as D&D players might find interesting. If he's lucky, he'll make something that Harry Potter fans might find entertaining and that might not totally embarrass us D&D players.

Hoping that he'll make a D&D movie that D&D players would want to watch is fruitless, I'm afraid, but I'm always hopeful that they'll surprise us and make something that's at least a good afternoon's or evening's worth of entertainment. I would give him the thumbs up if he was able to accomplish that.