If you made a DND movie...

[Ace]

Well in My D&D movie there would be a lot of explicit D&D references. You would see Orcs, Dragons, A Dungeon (just one) fights, traps, and that sort of thing.

Some classses would be mentioned by name for example A villan might say "I am NOT a wizard, I am a Sorcerer and my powers are inate." as he hurls magic missle at the party


Almost every spell would be recognizable from the Players handbook. For example a wizard might have a scroll and have dialog like "This Passwall spell is several levels higher than I can normally use,. There will be risks involved you cannot possibly understand"

The characters (there would be five) would be standrad D&D types, A wizard, A cleric, A fighter, A ranger and a rogue and they would be about 6 or 7th level equivilant. The charcters would match exactly the D&D equivilants IE The ranger would use 2wpn style.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Conan the Barbarian opened with young Conan's tribe getting cut down and his village getting razed by Thulsa Doom and his raiders. That was certainly quite a spectacle.

Star Wars' first act ends as Luke returns to find his family farm razed by Imperial Stormtroopers.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. What was being discussed was a far cry from what came later in Star Wars (read the original posts again), no matter how you rationalize it. I won't discuss Conan much, simply because none of its descendants - including its own sequel - ever came close to garnering anything like its success.

As for magic - simply saying it hasn't worked before, so let's never do it, seems pretty defeatist to me. Superheroics never looked very good before Spider-man, but obviously it was felt that modern effects were up to the task - is magic really that much more difficult to portray than Spider-man swinging through Manhattan or Jedi diving from aircars into dizzying cityscapes (or any of a number of other Jedi tricks)?

 

[Harlequin]

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Perfect D&D film:

Wesley Snipes as Drizzt Do'Urden!

There is a rumour that this was on the cards
and also Laurence Fishburn to play Artemis (thats his arch enemy right?)

How cool would this movie be if that happend


My pic would be for Peter Jackson to sit down and read the Dragonlance Trilogy...and then get to work straight after finishing LOTR Trilogy on that

A also agree with the person who said they already have made the perfect DnD Movie 'Fellowship of the Ring'

But Two Towers is going to top that...and i am just peeing my pants at how cool Return of the King is going to be !

Someone hand PJ those Dragonlance Books


Harlequin

 

[Ulrick]

I think they should make a D&D movie based completely on the "Tomb of Horrors!"

*Chuckles Maniacally*

Ulrick

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Re: ...

My pic would be for Peter Jackson to sit down and read the Dragonlance Trilogy...and then get to work straight after finishing LOTR Trilogy on that

I think a big stumbling block here would be something you left out - he needs to sit down, read, and love Dragonlance like he loves LotR. I get the feeling that wouldn't happen.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

When it comes to adapting books, I, too, think a Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser movie would be fantastic if it was well done. I'd really like to see an Elric movie, also.

A film of the Black Company books would also be a dream come true...

 

[BOZ]

i would have four guys sitting around a table, and it would start with one guy going "what do you mean we didn't see the orcs were hiding behind a tree? i have +32 in Spot and my super-ninja-vampire-assassin detection powers!" and then they start throwing multi-colored dice at each other.

 

[Harlequin]

Re: Re: ...

I think a big stumbling block here would be something you left out - he needs to sit down, read, and love Dragonlance like he loves LotR. I get the feeling that wouldn't happen.

Arhhh Col

Let me have my dreams will ya

I dont think anyone else could have the brilliance and vision PJ had with LOTR to bring out the same quality with DL

Anyone think of a director out there is up to the task to put DL on the big screen?
I cant think of anyone that would do it as good as PJ, even if he didnt like the material as much as LOTR


Harlequin

 

[Droogie]

I'd boil it down to what I feel is the essence of D&D-

A fellowship of four adventurers of varying talents. It would have to be an ensemble cast with no standouts, as someone already mentioned, although each character and their skills would have a chance to shine.

A dungeon someplace.

A dragon somewhere.

A faux-medieval european setting. C'mon, ya gotta have this!

A relatively simple, small-scale story. No need to get too epic...yet. The characters would be low-level in game terms. Courtney Solomon bit off WAY more than he could chew with his epic scope, but I digress.

Except maybe the dragon, the beasties would have to be comparable in power to the main characters. However, they GOTTA be unique to the D&D game..carrion crawlers. Gnolls. Kobolds. Lotsa Kobolds. No orcs- too Tolkienesque.

Has to be some in-jokes. How about this scene: our intrepid heros come upon a towering statue of an evil diety. He holds in his outstretched hands the symbol of his terrible power: a 20-sided polyhedron. However, I'd go easy on the "gamespeak".. I think characters discussing what class they are or what level of power this or that spell is would sound really hokey.

Now if the film did well and there was sequel talk, THEN we could start getting epic. Thats when we start rolling out the beholders. The umber hulks. the liches.

Sigh.....even though the real D&D film came and went, and LotR rocked, I still daydream about being a filmmaker and making the TRUE D&D movie.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

A faux-medieval european setting. C'mon, ya gotta have this!

It's not that the setting is so bad, exactly, it's just that filmmakers always seem to make it too much like medieval Europe, or at least like what they think medieval Europe was like, which seems to be that it was like a Renaissance Fair everywhere. I want floating cities and mountains carved into statues and 300 ft. tall trees with cities in the branches.