D&D Movie/TV Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith Join D&D Movie

From Comic Book Movies -- "Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar) and Justice Smith (Detective Pikachu) have joined Wonder Woman 1984's Chris Pine in Paramount and eOne's upcoming big-budget board game adaptation, Dungeons & Dragons..."

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Michelle Rodriguez And Justice Smith Join Chris Pine In Fantasy Adaptation

Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar) and Justice Smith (Detective Pikachu) have joined Wonder Woman 1984's Chris Pine in Paramount and eOne's upcoming big-budget board game adaptation, Dungeons & Dragons...

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We learned in December about Chris Pine's involvement, along with directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.

D&D Movie/TV - Chris Pine To Star In D&D Movie

The long, slow process towards a modern take on D&D movies took a large step forward with the announcement of a huge star signed to the project. Considering that filming is set to start soon a cascade of announcements should be revealed in initiative order imminently. Filming begins in Q1 2021...

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[Mirtek]

But how are you going to get 18 year old Judi Dench these days???

CGI de-aging?

 

[Imaculata]

As far as we know, the movie hasn't even started filming yet, it's just a touch early to say that it's going to be crap.

Well to be fair, it IS a D&D movie.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

There's no tv role in recent years in her IMDB listing other than a recurring one in Backdoor, one appearance on a sketch show, and before that Lost. The rest is movies and shorts.

Her eyesight isn't very good.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah, the story was rather weak. And calling your fictionalized materian "unobtanium" was really dumb—that's the name of the trope for rare, exotic materials (like mithril, adamantine, adamantium, vibranium, etc.).

Not really. A lot of scientists are geeks, and are more than likely to name something after a geek-culture trope.

 

[Horwath]

Not really. A lot of scientists are geeks, and are more than likely to name something after a geek-culture trope.

true.

Same name has the material that was used in constructing the ship from the movie The Core.

We wont go into how stupid THAT movie is.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I thought it was Dances With Wolves in space.

Allegories about colonialism are pretty common in science fiction. It frequently crops up in Doctor Who, has been touched on in Star Trek, and is in dozens of novels (including War of the Worlds). Dances With Wolves came pretty late to the party.

Also see: The Eagle of the Ninth.

 

[EthanSental]

Decently known cast so far, gives me some hope it will be an enjoyable movie like the 80s Conan movies. As far as Irons, I think his overacting in the D&D movie added to its buffoonery in many scenes, felt like a high school or college theater actor yelling the lines in an effort to make it seem more dramatic.

 

[Seramus]

The only reason anyone who doesn't play D&D might know that the first D&D movie exists is because Irons was in it.
Unless the are a really big Wayans fan...

I watched it because it had Jimmy Olsen from Lois & Clark. God I loved that show. I found out who Irons was from that movie.

 

[TwoSix]

You've seen the script for Avatar II then!!!

Man, I can't wait for Avatar 2, assuming there are still movie theaters around with IMAX screens.

 

[Imaculata]

Man, I can't wait for Avatar 2, assuming there are still movie theaters around.

Fixed it for you.