New D&D movie in the works?

[darjr]

The Escapist : Third Dungeons & Dragons movie a possibility

Saw it from Third D&D Movie: The Film of Seven Parts? « Of Dice and Men

from my rss google feed at rpgbloggers.com

Could it be?

Who's the coolmore consortium? Anybody know anything else?

 

[Alzrius]

DEEP HURTING!

Seriously, please stop torturing our beloved game with these awful movies! I admit the second one was much better than the first, but that's like saying that having a case of indigestion is much better than having a prostate exam.

Just stop.

 

[Aloïsius]

Will they use 3e or 4e ?

Hum, this leads to another question : imagine a respective movie-maker : what edition should he choose ? Which one is the most interesting (or cause the less problem like "why don't they use cure light wound !") from a plot point of view ? From an action point of view ?

 

[malraux]

DEEP HURTING!

Seriously, please stop torturing our beloved game with these awful movies! I admit the second one was much better than the first, but that's like saying that having a case of indigestion is much better than having a prostate exam.

Just stop.

I would strongly support a DnD tv show/cartoon. But you just cannot do a DnD movie. The nature of the game precludes it.

A DnD movie has to cover a party (meaning at least 4 characters) plus a villain. That's 5 different personalities, backstories and explanation of powers and abilities that you must cover in addition to an actual plot. Moreover, the essence of DnD is that everyone in a party is equal, no one is the support character. That means you can't make the story just about the mage and have the fighter, the rogue and the cleric be the goofy support characters. For a TV show, you can make that work fine, specifically because you can spend a long time developing each character.

Consider the good action and sci-fi fantasy movies. Even something like star wars only really develops Luke, Han and Vader, and that was with a 2 hour movie. With a more realistic 80 minutes, you just cannot get more than 2 main characters developed, and one of those must be the villain.

 

[Moon_Goddess]

you know, thats a really good way of looking at it that I havn't thought of before...


I could get behind a good dnd tv show, sure it would probably be cheesy, but hey, DND can be cheesy at times.

Stargate SG1 is a good model for show featuring an adventure group.

 

[jdrakeh]

I would strongly support a DnD tv show/cartoon. But you just cannot do a DnD movie. The nature of the game precludes it.

FWIW, Willow managed to do all of things that you claim make it impossible to film a D&D movie and it did them in about 120 minutes, which seems to be the average running length for a film today. I personally think that Willow also felt very D&D-ish.

 

[Protagonist]

FWIW, Willow managed to do all of things that you claim make it impossible to film a D&D movie and it did them in about 120 minutes, which seems to be the average running length for a film today. I personally think that Willow also felt very D&D-ish.

AND superhero comic adaptions like Watchemen and the first Fantastic Four movie also manged to cram multiple personalities into a decent film.

 

[darjr]

They could reprise a derivative of Seven Samurai. I've done it myself as GM.

 

[Quickleaf]

Who's the coolmore consortium? Anybody know anything else?

Interesting. From over here FT.com / UK - Picture perfect plan for east Durham...

The Coolmore consortium includes Tom Maxfield, an ex-Sage director who has gone on to found Tom’s Companies, which created and runs Seaham Hall and Serenity Spa, north-east England’s only five star hotel. Seaham Hall – where the writer Lord Byron briefly lived and married – is a few miles from the site.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Yeah, I'd argue that it can be done, and done well. In fact, it has been done, just not in any movie with "D&D" in the title.

Me, I'd love to see another one, if it was done well. The second movie was leaps and bounds better than the first. If the third can be that much better than the second, it might actually be good.

(Heck, I'd love a chance to write it... )