D&D General How you would have done the Dungeons and Dragons' movie - 80's edition

[Corinnguard]

The Widow of the Web scene from Krull was also a good scene from that movie. Evading a giant, crystal spider in order to talk with a cursed seeress about the location of a teleporting fortress? Worthy D&D material.

 

[Theory of Games]

$45 million in the 1980s was a seriously major budget.

You do realize the first D&D movie was made in 2000, right? $45M was a so-so budget, not enough for great special effects, which you need for a fantasy movie. Making it in the 80's is even less money (in '86 Labyrinth had a $25M budget).

 

[GrimCo]

Do coke and wear pastel colored shirt.

Half naked chicks in chain mail bikini. Half naked oiled up muscle bound hunks in leather. Epic one liners. Heavy metal soundtrack. R rated, blood and violence galore, with occasional naked boob or ass.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Just finished we were wizard's podcast and feel vindicated in handling my own gaming material much better, but it did hit a what if.

It is 198x.

You got the green light to do the Dungeons and Dragon movie.

What do you do?

Hawk the Slayer.

 

[R_J_K75]

I'd make...

Conan the King.

I bet we'll see another D&D movie before either "The Legend of Conan" or the new Red Sonja movies ever see the light of day. I seem to recall hearing about a new Conan movie as long ago as the late 90s/early 2000's before Schwarzenegger became the governor of California.

 

[GMMichael]

I bet we'll see another D&D movie before either "The Legend of Conan" or the new Red Sonja movies ever see the light of day. I seem to recall hearing about a new Conan movie as long ago as the late 90s/early 2000's before Schwarzenegger became the governor of California.

No words necessary.

 

[R_J_K75]

No words necessary.

I remember renting it on VOD and got a 1/4 of the way thru and had to shut it off, it was crap.

 

[DarkCrisis]

More kid friendly: adapt the csrtoon

More serious: adapt Dragonlance or Drizzt. Or maybe swing for fences and adapt a classic module like Elemental Evil.

 

[Meech17]

I'd knock off The Princess Bride. Replace grandpa reading a book to his grandson with a group of kids playing D&D.

Have one kid be the reluctant one who didn't want to play, and ends up being the hero in the end.

 

[TiQuinn]

Yeah, I think I'd go for Dragonlance as a set of movies. Effect aspects from Dragonslayer, Conan and Legend. Most of the effect budget would probably go into getting Ember & Onyx on the screen, animating Fewmaster Toade & Draconians as Henson muppets, Raist's spells and the matte paintings for the Floating Citadel, Huma's Tomb and the like.

I always felt the dragon in Dragonslayer were some pretty solid effects for a movie that came out in what, 1981? 82?