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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 4906108" data-attributes="member: 18701">From my experience with non gamer people...more people know what D&D is and has heard the name Dungeons and Dragonsm more than they know what Lord of the Rings is (before the movies). They might not know exactly what D&D is...but they know it is fantasy stuff. I'd think D&D was more popular within the general public than LotRs before the movies were out.The only reason non gamers saw LotRs is because of the hipe and the fact that it was good enough to get people to actually say, "Go see this movie, it's good".There is no reason a D&D movie couldn't have received the same attention the LotRs movies had. Maybe D&D players don't have as much money to help invest in the movie like LotRs did because we're broke from buying so many gaming books. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />No, I believe that's the exact reason why so many movies fail...they are all all unified storylines. Nobody wants to release an original story anymore. Production companies don't want to take risks on original stuff, that's why we have so many remakes in the past 10 years. Or they take an already popular story and butcher it on film. And most movies being released fail horribly.I think the thing that would make D&D successful is the fact there is so much material to work with and you can create a more original movie from that material. Movie makers are focusing their attention in the wrong areas and do more copying from other movies than just doing their own thing. As long as you provided fans with subject matter they can relate too from the D&D game, that's all that matters. They won't care if it fits their specific idea of what a D&D world is as long as they walk away saying, "Wow, that's an amazing movie. I liked when the Rogue did that...the Cleric did this....the Wizard did that...". If they can relate to the characters because they had a similar thing happen in an adventure they played in, they'll love it. But the movie needs to be high quality, have a good cast, and most importantly have characters that you will like, a story you will be interested in, & subject matter from the game that fans will recognize.</blockquote>

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