New D&D Movie Announced

[Enceladus]

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[Number47]

We all knew that a sequel was inevitable. Remember that the movie had made a profit even before it was released? Very savvy sales.

 

[Mark Chance]

We all knew that a sequel was inevitable. Remember that the movie had made a profit even before it was released? Very savvy sales.

That, and a general lack of creativity in Hollywood. Nearly every movie out, it seems, is either a remake or sequel. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but:

Matrix Reloaded: Sequel
X2: Sequel
The In-Laws: Remake
The Italian Job: Remake
Down With Love: Very nearly a remake
Wrong Turn: So formulaic it is a virtual remake

Later this year: T3 (sequel possibly so derivative it is a remake), Jason Vs. Freddy (sequel/formulaic remake), 2 Fast 2 Furious (sequel), Bad Boys 2 (yet another sequel), Dumb and Dumberer, et cetera, et cetera.

 

[Thresher]

Having ruined myself watching the 1'st one on cable a few months ago Im hardly going to be inflicting unessary pain on myself a second time.

Sure, since LotR the bar may have been raised. Problem is, some fool gets a budget, forgets the bar and goes onto make a crock of utter crap regardless of their contempories efforts.

 

[Psion]

There were a few decent things about the film, mostly some of the actors - the lead actor, who played Ridley, actually had screen presence and knew how to look at ease on camera. The actor who played the dwarf deserved more screen time also. Zoe McLellan was also charismatic.

I think most people put the blame in one spot: the director.

 

[Sixchan]

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I'll second that.

I don't think that D&D really makes a good movie. The only way I can see a decent D&D film is if everyone sends in a Story Hour of their campaign. The producers (who should be an equal mix of Fantasy fans, Roleplayers, other geeks and normal people, of course) then pick the best one, and invites that person to be the head script writer. Or even director.

Say, didn't Jonrog (sp?) write "The CORE"? If we could get an ENWorlder writing it, it shouldn't fail in the script department.

 

[talien]

Just How Much the Movie Made

The results are here:

http://us.imdb.com/Business?0190374

As you can see, Hollywood isn't concerned about "good" movies. It's concerned about movies that make more money than they cost to film.

The movie's budget: $35,000,000 (USA)
The movie's worldwide gross: $50,000,000 (Worldwide)
The movie's USA gross: $15,185,241 (USA) (28 January 2001)
$65,000,000+. That's almost double what the movie cost to make!

In short...the U.S. hated it but apparently the rest of the world thought it was great.

 

[Sanackranib]

1st D&D movie

What got me was the fact thaty when it came out on DVD idt was $20.00, if you were one of us that sat through the movie in the theatre then you MIGHT actually buy it on DVD to skip to the parts that you actually liked. but for $20.00? I don't own it yet and I have over 120 DVD's.

as to the top 20 fantasy movies, you have got to include Connan, and Connan the Distroyer, Willow, Ladyhawk and of course The Princess Bride

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Sigh ... think anyone told the director his movie sucked? Think he believed it?

It's nice to know there are some directors (like PJ) that actually believe in the integrity of their work in addition to making a buck. I have a feeling the D&D2 movie will be a "wait until you can rent it" movie.

 

[Zappo]

Oh boy. We all know the 1st Axiom of Movies: The sequel's worse than the first Movie. Look at the drop in Matrix. And now think about a Sequel of D&D - The Movie. *shudder*

I honestly don't think it is possible to make a sequel worst than D&D: The Movie. The only possible way this could happen is if they make it a straight-to-TV film, so that it lacks funds too. D&D the movie is just about the bottom of what a modern fantasy movie can be.

From the Variety page, talking about the D&D movie:
Targeted at undiscriminating international auds and genre aficionados, film would probably play better dubbed into a foreign tongue

The funny part is that it does. The Italian dubber managed to substantially reduce Irons' overacting.