D&D Movie/TV Hugh Grant To Play Villain in the D&D Movie

Hugh Grant will be playing the villain in the Chris Pine D&D movie, which also stars Fast & Furious' Michelle Rodriguez, Jurassic World's Justice Smith and Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page, according to Deadline.

According to ComicBookMovie, his character name is Forge Fletcher, and the cast will be joined by I Am Not OK With This actor Sophia Lillis playing a character called Doric.

In recent years, Hugh Grant has played villains in Paddington 2, and The Undoing.

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It’s entirely possible that “Forge Fletcher” is a fake name to toss the press so people won’t go looking. It’d be really funny if Forge Fletcher was code for, say, “Obould Many-arrows” or something. 🙂
Yeah, that's my view. Which might suggest he is playing a "known" D&D character. Personally I can imagine him voicing Xanathar.
 


It’s a very reasonable claim. It had probably been at least a decade since Lee had been in the papers in any major way, or been otherwise a current big deal.

He was very much a guy who was a big deal because of decades past, not because of any recent work.
Lee was pretty much housebound for about the last 10 years before he died. His last roles they made special arrangements to film his bits at or near his home. It's called old age, it gets everyone who lives long enough. His death in 2015 was big news.
 
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None of that paragraph has any logic behind it.

You have chosen not to see some of the most popular films of the last 30 years, so you don't know anything about these actors. Suggesting casting them means something bad based on your, frankly, unusual taste in films is silly.
Let's agree to disagree, and its probably best if I dont respond to this.
 

hopeless

Adventurer
I have watched all 3 d&d movies and have absolutely no problem with Hugh Grant playing the villain in this!

The third d&d movie to me was the worst one, the second was the best one and I understand people think they're terrible but after picking up a copy of the first two on region 1 and 2 I think the region 2 release of the Wrath of the Dragon God was far worse as the extras on the region 1 version was so much better than the blu ray region 2 version!

Would it really hurt to not ignore their movie has a pantheon of gods for cleric's to worship?

The first one seemed to only have Tom Baker playing the elven Cleric.
The second they killed off their cleric (sorry spoiler warning I suppose!), but had lizardfolk shaman.
The third there was only one god and he had excommunicated his clergy which normally means he's dead unless they're crazy enough to continue worshipping that kind of a&&h*le!

Izmer was a Metropolis in the first movie then a small city at best in the second and no where to be found in the third as they apparently don't give a damn about continuation well d&d does have several settings pity they couldn't use one of them!

Never watched Paddington the movie either of them, is it worth picking up for my almost 4 year old niece?
 


Technoloid

Villager
Isn't High Grant usually cast in movies in the "Drama" genre??

Correct me if I'm wrong but this movie is going to be in the "Action/Adventure" Genre.

That's where my disconnect is.

I remember seeing this guy in some movie where Hes wearing a tuxedo.... that's literally all I can recall of his career. Just not a guy who's in movies i willing choose to watch.

Sure hes a great actor though
 

embee

Lawyer by day. Rules lawyer by night.
Isn't High Grant usually cast in movies in the "Drama" genre??

Correct me if I'm wrong but this movie is going to be in the "Action/Adventure" Genre.

That's where my disconnect is.

I remember seeing this guy in some movie where Hes wearing a tuxedo.... that's literally all I can recall of his career. Just not a guy who's in movies i willing choose to watch.

Sure hes a great actor though
Isn't Ian McKellan a Shakespearean actor? And yet LOTR and X-Men.

Isn't Judi Dench a Shakespearean actor? And yet Chronicles of Riddick and James Bond.

Isn't Peter Cushing usually cast in horror movies? And yet Star Wars.

Isn't Hugh Jackman usually cast in action movies? And yet Les Mis.
 




Whizbang Dustyboots

Gnometown Hero
Alec Baldwin was primarily known for being a dramatic actor at one time but he absolutely kills it doing comedy. Actors are capable of doing good work in more than one genre of film.
Lots of them can sing and dance, too, having done musical theater (or at least trained for it) on the way up.

Grant played rugby in school and has done Shakespeare. It wouldn't be a shock if he had stage combat training he could blow the dust off of, with the help of trainers with the movie.
 


ccs

41st lv DM
Captain America: The First Avenger managed to overcome the previous Captain America movie.
And the two TV "movies".
And the 1940s serial.

The trend here is that each outing for CA improved from the previous effort.
I think that trend ended with CA: Winter Soldier though as Civil Way was practically Avengers III.
 

Retreater

Legend
People didn't like it when Heath Ledger was first cast as the Joker because he was a romantic lead.
Let's give Hugh Grant a chance. He's a professional actor who has been in some good films. Sometimes playing against type works. Look at Robin Williams' dramatic roles.
 

I'll point out that they only have supposed names for these two characters, not anyone else previously announced. While the casting news seems to be accurate, I take the reported names with a grain of salt.

The name Forge Fletcher does feel like it would be right at home in Eberron, though it also sounds like the kind of name a 13-year old would come up with and think sounded absolutely BA.

It’s entirely possible that “Forge Fletcher” is a fake name to toss the press so people won’t go looking. It’d be really funny if Forge Fletcher was code for, say, “Obould Many-arrows” or something. 🙂
 

Technoloid

Villager
Isn't Ian McKellan a Shakespearean actor? And yet LOTR and X-Men.

Isn't Judi Dench a Shakespearean actor? And yet Chronicles of Riddick and James Bond.

Isn't Peter Cushing usually cast in horror movies? And yet Star Wars.

Isn't Hugh Jackman usually cast in action movies? And yet Les Mis.
It's called acting. The person pretends to be a different person.
Alec Baldwin was primarily known for being a dramatic actor at one time but he absolutely kills it doing comedy. Actors are capable of doing good work in more than one genre of film.

Usually people dont make a huge jump like this though. Jumping from horror movies, which let's be real doesnt take a whole lot of range to an action movie isnt that big of a change up in style.

Unless his character is going to kill people at a candle light dinner while serenading them with the sultry sounds of Michael Bolton, I just dont see it being a good fit is all.

That's just how to cookie...... errrr biscuit, crumbles
 

Technoloid

Villager
People didn't like it when Heath Ledger was first cast as the Joker because he was a romantic lead.
Let's give Hugh Grant a chance. He's a professional actor who has been in some good films. Sometimes playing against type works. Look at Robin Williams' dramatic roles.
Heath ledger played in several different genres before batman. I dont think anyone thought he was a flat out bad choice for the joker.
 

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