New D&D Movie Announced

[MojoGM]

Although I only saw it once in the theatres and still have vivid nightmares about how horrible it was, there is no doubt in my mind that I will eventually see this when it comes out.

Now, depending on the stuff I hear before, and the reviews, I may not see it until it comes out on DVD, but I will see it.

And I'll continue to have high hopes for it, such as they drop the word "sequel" and pretend the first one never happened.

I'm an eternal optimist.

 

[Henry]

I have a question: Is the thing in production NOW?

If it isn't then early 2004 (even by March 2004) is a darned ambitious date.

I honestly hope against my common sense that the sequel is better, and takes a totally different direction. However, if The writers of the original screenplay, and Courtney Solomon, are still attached, I do not have good hopes, unless he can coax a better script out of the writers, and can coax better performances out of the actors. I thought Justin Whalin did a pretty good job, but the rest of the cast were somewhat lifeless in their parts, and the CGI had problems of its own (like the original CGI company stiffing them on the job).

 

[Psion]

Oh boy. We all know the 1st Axiom of Movies: The sequel's worse than the first Movie. Look at the drop in Matrix.

Ad hoc ergo proptor hoc.

I know plenty of movies in which the sequel outshines the original, a.k.a., the "Cameron Effect."

Aliens, one of my favorite movies of all time, is a sequel. As was T2.

 

[Lhorgrim]

I was suckered into watching this movie in the theater. That's 2 hours I'll want back when I'm on my deathbed. I don't hold out much hope for the next D&D movie, but I guess I'll make my decision based on previews and reviewer comments.

 

[I'm A Banana]

I dunno...

With DMX and Jet Li slated for it, it sounds like it'll try much more to be "Awesome action and kick-ass explosions" than "Fantasy-Drama-Comedy."

I have the feeling it's going to be darker, grittier, and involve more fight scenes and less scholock, just by the names involved.

 

[Mark]

Ad hoc ergo proptor hoc.

I know plenty of movies in which the sequel outshines the original, a.k.a., the "Cameron Effect."

Aliens, one of my favorite movies of all time, is a sequel. As was T2.

I preferred Predator 2...even though the first wasn't a bad movie (as far as action films go). I think it's a case in point of how to approach a sequel. Keeping some of the elements that made the first decent (the antagonist), basically writing a whole new story that merely shares a universe but also changes the location are what made the sequel a better movie, IMO. I also think that making the hero in the second movie more fallible, and not as "larger than life" then in the first movie, raised the stakes in a way that allowed me to invest more personally and emotionally in the character and the plot.

 

[Enceladus]

*the sound of a whole bunch of air being sucked in*






nnnnnnnnnNNNNNNNNNNNOOO--- *cough* *cough*

Oh hell.

This is a fun read Tandem DnD the movie Rant

 

[WayneLigon]

Re: Just How Much the Movie Made

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!

Because of the way that Corey went about raising the money for it, it was paid for by the time it was in the can so any money it made was profit, rather than having to make back the cost of production plus.

And, too, it's not a 'Hollywood' film; it's an independent film distributed by New Line. They wanted a few changes done (which resulted in the hokey ending - watch the DVD alternate ending, which is much better), but it was mostly done by the time they went looking for a distributor.

I wish the original web site for the film was still up -- it had a number of things on it that addressed some of the reasons it turned out to be less than what was intended -- but it's been taken down and wasn't archived; at least the Wayback Machine can't get it. Nor can I find anything about Don Whetsell, the former webmaster for www.dndmovie.com (dead site).

An interview with Corey Solomon

Largest still-extant interviews I can find

 

[Airwolf]

Yes, I will see this movie...when I can download an illegal copy for free. Then I will watch it on my computer and probably have to reformat the hard drive afterward.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I wouldn`t call the D&D movie a good movie, but I liked it, in some ways.
There are probably thousands things that could have been made better, but it really seemed to use the D&D rule system, and I liked it, because this somehow gives the system life. (What is Uncanny Dodge and Evasion? Just whatch the scene in the "dungeon"...)

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