Pitch me your ulitmate D&D movie

[TexasBEAST]

For something completely different . . .

I think someday it would be great to see a faithful dramatization of the story that started the negative vibe surrounding D&D in the early days. The tale of James Dallas Egbert III (<http://ptgptb.org/0006/egbert.html>) deals only in the slightest peripheral way with the game, but is rather a lesson in irresponsible, sensationalized media reporting and scapegoating. A very loose Tom Hanks TV adaptation, Mazes & Monsters, was produced back in the early '80s, but it was rushed and unimpressive. What's more, it essentially made the same mistakes as the news media. In the end, neither Egbert nor D&D were treated fairly throughout the whole, sordid affair. It's time that was set right.

The nonfiction book The Dungeon Master, written by the private investigator who worked the case, William Dear, would make ideal source material.

A serious drama with a small-to-medium budget and suitable for an independent studio (rather than a blockbuster action flick), this is the sort of film that could actually provide a service to more than just the D&D community.

 

[Quartz]

I'd like to see The Champion's Belt - Gladiator meets Clash of the Titans meets Tremors.

Plenty of opportunities for cameos, you get the ulgurstasta at the end and if the movie succeeds there are ready sequels.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi all!

I have been working on a few more scenes for my movie idea, I am off on holiday to London next week, if I get some free time (on the plane or whatever) I'll try and get it all finished and typed up when I get back.

One of the early scenes involved some characters walking/talking from the town's temple to a large tavern/inn (basically just an introduction to the town really). On the way the heroes briefly encounter a number of the town's colourful characters: a gravedigger, a beggar, the undertaker, blacksmith, innkeeper and barmaid. Initially these won't seem at all relevant, but later in the movie when the townfolk are turned into the undead by priests of Orcus, every sentence and character earlier becomes poignant.

So you have a gravedigger saying "Mind your step" then later when he's a ghoul one of the heroes falls into an open grave and is attacked by him.

A beggar rattling a tin cup approaches Jozan *who gives him a few coins* "here get yourself something to eat" says Jozan. Later when the heroes reach the (zombified) town, this beggar is the first to approach, again rattling his cup. That lets him draw close and lunge in for the bite.

Then the undead start to appear in increasing numbers and the heroes have to fight there way through to the temple of Pelor (now the Temple of Orcus). With zombies coming at them from all sides and alleyways of the main street with ghouls leaping and running along the roofs of the houses and buildings pouncing on the heroes.

etc.

Those scenes were quite fun to write.

 

[Logos7]

Director: Christopher Nolan (batman begins) and Frank Miller (of obvious fame)
Storyline: Patrick Steward in a bid to save his Macgufferin, enlists the aid of Sean Connery and his band of miscreant/odd jobs. Along the way they encounter personal nemisis anthony head who is on a bid for the macgufferin for less nobel reasons.

The setting would be eberron

Places/Macgufferins
Sharn/the flying cup (a bit more kiddish)
All of eberron/ First place in a race arround the world (a bit more mature but more likely to flop I don't think eberron is well known enough to warrant a "arround the world approach"
something sinister and gothic in breland/karnath/ a secret of the last war that explains patrick's decline in stature and ability.

Writer Joss Whedon of Buffy, Angel, Firefly fame and Kevin Smith of Silent Bob fame
Cast Pactric Stewart cast as the honourable but failing good guy
Anthony Head as the Dispicable Badguy
Sean Connery as the less than honourable but very competant grey guy
Some relative unknown as the strong female lead
Format (Live action, with emphasis on astounding places/behaviour over special effects, when possible using physical effects over cgi)
Producer (some of the above)
Effects house (the muppets? im not familure with these), Studio (something smaller that's not going to it up) Budget (large but not over the top in the lowish millions 10-20 or something like that , if you can't do it for that much it probably shouldn't be done)

 

[Enkhidu]

I was thinking about how cool Against the Giants would be as a live-action movie. Basically, use just the Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl because of the somewhat more easily-recognizable idea of titanic vikings. Death-pale giants with dark eyes dressed in mammoth skins and saber-toothed-tiger pelts, carrying axes the size of Volkswagons.. man, that is one great image. Now imagine fighting that with your little sword.

You have one classic adventure movie right there. Open with a frost giant raid on a village, showing just how unstoppable and physically powerful a true giant really is. The desperate plea for heroes, and the half-crazy nutters who show up to take on an entire community of beings four times their size. The old dwarf campaigner who fought the last giant incursion, the kid with Something To Prove, the wizard who secretly wants an artifact the giants have in their possession, the priestess who lost everything and has no reason to live, etc.

Huge big set-peices. Fight on a crumbling ice bridge. "Release the hounds!" as the giants let loose their white saber-toothed-tiger hunting cats. The eeriely-beautiful glacier rift and fantastic ice caverns. Frost giant warriors on mastadons, bay-bee. The artifact that causes their glacier to dissolve into a volcano. The frost giant king with his white dragon ally.

Black screen dedication to Gary at the ending, of course

That's some nice imagery.

Now make it better by giving the whole flick the same kind of wash provided in 300.