Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God! (Updated: Oct 09/05) Spoiler Free Thread

[nahualt]

I dont know why you people are so desperate..we already had a good D&D movie, it was called:

HAWK THE SLAYER!

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0080846/

 

[Knightfall]

I dont know why you people are so desperate..we already had a good D&D movie, it was called:

HAWK THE SLAYER!

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0080846/

I'm just reporting the facts, man.

August 2004 Production Report (actor update only)

Actor(s)
Mark Dymond
Bruce Payne
Clemmie Burton-Hill
Ellie Chidzle
Tim Stern
Henry Goodman
Lucy Gaskell
Roy Marsden

 

[nikolai]

Knightfall1972, thanks for all your hard work in keeping us informed with updates with progress on the film. I've some questions:

Do we know what the track record of the people who wrote the screenplay (Brian Rudnick & Robert Kimmel) is? Are the stars of the original returning or not? Some sources cite them, others don't.

 

[Knightfall]

Knightfall1972, thanks for all your hard work in keeping us informed with updates with progress on the film. I've some questions:

Do we know what the track record of the people who wrote the screenplay (Brian Rudnick & Robert Kimmel) is?

Brian Rudnick's career up to now has mainly been as a Second Unit Director/Assistant Director. The closest thing he has to a 5 out of 10 star movie is the 1998 Action/Thriller Evasive Action starring Roy Scheider. He also was a writer for that movie, as well. Other movies/TV series he is associated with are White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II (1993), first assistant director (second unit); Emmanuelle, Queen of the Galaxy (1994), second unit director; Black Scorpion (1995) (TV), production coordinator (second unit); Inhumanoid (1996) (TV), second unit director; Last Exit to Earth (1996) (TV), unit production manager; Expose (1997), director; Sex, Lies & Politics (1997) (V), director.

Robert Kimmel's career is even less. He has one listing under Miscellaneous Crew as a production coordinator (second unit), for the movie Passion and Romance: Double Your Pleasure (1997). He is also listed as an actor for the movie Aquaniods (2003).

Of course, this is dependent on whether or not I have the right people from the IMDb US website. (Most likely.)

Are the stars of the original returning or not? Some sources cite them, others don't.

Well, at this point I'd say Bruce Payne is coming back for D&D II but neither he nor Whalin and/or McLellan are listed as being in the movie (yet) at the IMDb US website. All I have to go on are the Production Report PDF files (in German), which are on the Studio Hamburg website.

I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Cheers!

KF72

 

[Knightfall]

Additional Company Websites related to D&D II

Studio Hamburg Worldwide Pictures GmbH & Co. KG (WWP)
Studio Hamburg Worldwide Pictures GmbH & Co. KG offers private and institutional investors the opportunity of entrepreneurial participation in a film production company as a limited partner. With a planned term of seven years, the company will invest from the beginning in producing and marketing promising international feature films. Investors will then have a preferential share in all worldwide revenues from the films. The subscription period ended in 2003.

Studio Hamburg
Worldwide Pictures GmbH & Co. KG (WWP)

Willinghusener Weg 5B
22113 Oststeinbek, Germany

Phone +49 40 3003-5040
Fax +49 40 3003-5042

wwp@studio-hamburg.de
www.worldwidepictures.de

First Look Media
FIRST LOOK MEDIA, INC. (formerly known as Overseas Filmgroup, Inc.) is a multi-faceted media company with four operating divisions (Overseas Filmgroup – the international sales operation; First Look Pictures – the U.S. theatrical releasing operation; First Look Home Entertainment – the U.S. video and DVD distribution operation; and First Look Artists – the TV commercial production and “branded content” operation). The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, however, also has an office in New York and sales representatives in both London and Rome. The company is headed by Chris Cooney, Co-Chairman and CEO; Robbie Little, Co-Chairman; and Bill Lischak, President and COO.

The Company is one of the founding members of the American Film Marketing Association (AFMA) and one of the most well-established international sales companies in the business. The company participates with sales offices at all the major film and television markets (including the AFM, Cannes, MIFED, MIPCOM, MIPTV and NATPE) and is currently distributing a library of more than 350 motion pictures.

In 1993, the company announced the creation of First Look Pictures to focus on the domestic distribution and marketing of independent films. Recent releases include Bread and Tulips (Pane E Tulipani); the Italian charmer which won seven Italian “Oscars” (Donatello Awards). The film enjoyed the highest per screen average for weeks and grossed over $4.5 million in domestic box office gross receipts.

First Look Media, Inc.'s common shares trade on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board is under the symbol FRST. E-mail First Look Media, Inc. at info@firstlookmedia.com
http://www.firstlookmedia.com/

 

[Derren]

Contents (rough translation): The fantasy adventure Dungeon and Dragons II: The Elemental Might is based on that world-wide well-known game, of the same name and ties to the first film of Dungeon & Dragons, which came out in 2000. Again in the the realm Izmir and also in the Sequel stands the courageous character RIDLEY at the center. This time a evil wizard/sorcerer steals a dark crystal, which can arouse a black dragon from its sleep. The fight between good and evil begins on a new.

Uhm, doesn't that sound a awful lot like the story of the first movie?

Dark wizard blah blah, magical artifact blah blah, dragons blah blah, war between good and evil.

 

[Knightfall]

Are the stars of the original returning or not? Some sources cite them, others don't.

Update!
I just checked the IMDb page for D&D II and it is official, both Justin Whalin (RIDLEY) and Zoe McLellan (MARINA) are returning to be in the sequel. They are not, however, top-billed.

Hmm, something to think about.

Note that Bruce Payne (DAMODAR) isn't listed yet, nor is Tim Stern and Ellie Chidzle (whoever she is). As those names are in the Studio Hamburg production PDFs, it is more than likely they will be added, eventually.

Cheers!

KF72

 

[Berandor]

Izmir again? Why can't we have smart dragons? Why?

 

[nikolai]

Okay, I've another question to plague you with... Didn't Bruce Payne's character die in the first film? My memory is hazy. Of course, in D&D death is a barrier that can be overcome.

 

[Klaus]

Okay, I've another question to plague you with... Didn't Bruce Payne's character die in the first film? My memory is hazy. Of course, in D&D death is a barrier that can be overcome.

Maybe he returns as a Death Knight?

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