D&D Movie/TV The D&D Movie Has Begun Filming!

Director Jonathan Goldstein tweeted "The campaign begins" with the following image!


Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley will be directing the film which features "an ensemble cast and take a subversive approach to the game."

The film stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith, Hugh Grant, and Rege-Jean Page.

D&D Movie/TV - Hugh Grant To Play Villain in the D&D Movie

Hugh Grant will be playing the villain in the Chris Pine D&D movie, which also stars Fast & Furious' Michelle Rodriguez, Jurassic World's Justice Smith and Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page, according to Deadline. According to ComicBookMovie, his character name is Forge Fletcher, and the cast will...

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[Paul Farquhar]

What?

Excessive earnestness.

Good lord. God forbid anything ever take itself seriously.

Quite. Real life is too short and grim for seriousness as entertainment.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Quite. Real life is too short and grim for seriousness as entertainment.

Yeah who wants stuff like Lord of The Rings or Star Wars all entertainment should just be comedy.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah who wants stuff like Lord of The Rings or Star Wars all entertainment should just be comedy.

Star Wars is not remotely serious, and Lord of the Rings mostly manages to avoid being too po-faced. Both are "comedy" in the Shakespearian sense.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Star Wars is not remotely serious, and Lord of the Rings mostly manages to avoid being too po-faced. Both are "comedy" in the Shakespearian sense.

Absurd and disingenuous.

Star Wars absolutely takes itself seriously (the thing I actually said), and your take on LoTR is laughable.

And you know damn well no one is using comedy in the Greek (who Shakespeare gets the terminology from) sense.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Absurd and disingenuous.

Star Wars absolutely takes itself seriously (the thing I actually said), and your take on LoTR is laughable.

And you know damn well no one is using comedy in the Greek (who Shakespeare gets the terminology from) sense.

was the greek one more or less everything ends well as opposed to tragedy where everything ends badly.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

was the greek one more or less everything ends well as opposed to tragedy where everything ends badly.

Yeah, exactly. Shakespearean comedies are also farcical and intentionally absurd, often very self aware and tongue-in-cheek. So, describing SW or LoTR as comedy in the “Shakespearean sense” is pretty silly.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

was the greek one more or less everything ends well as opposed to tragedy where everything ends badly.

It is a long time ago since I did lit. but as far as I recall ends well had nothing to do with it. In Greek comedy the protagonist did not die. In tragedy they did, (and frequently everyone else as well), mostly through no fault of their own. The will of the gods and so forth. Shakespeare toned it down a bit where the protagonist dies through some flaw in their personality in the circumstance. As someone pointed out, I think, on these boards recently, Hamlet would have seen through Iago and Othello would have topped Claudius before the end of the first act.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

I am amazed at the number of people dismissing or talking down this movie before even a teaser trailer is released. I mean I have no particular expectations at this point in time there is really nothing to base it on.
Ok the previous attempts were bad but also pretty low budget and fantasy is difficult to do on a low budget. I personally feel that movie will be good if there is no conflict at producer/director level and the director is into the project and is a good writer or hires a good writer.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

was the greek one more or less everything ends well as opposed to tragedy where everything ends badly.

Quite. LotR is comedy, GoT is tragedy.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I am amazed at the number of people dismissing or talking down this movie before even a teaser trailer is released. I mean I have no particular expectations at this point in time there is really nothing to base it on.
Ok the previous attempts were bad but also pretty low budget and fantasy is difficult to do on a low budget. I personally feel that movie will be good if there is no conflict at producer/director level and the director is into the project and is a good writer or hires a good writer.

well, we can expect at least a dragon or a dungeon and that it will exist.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah, exactly. Shakespearean comedies are also farcical and intentionally absurd, often very self aware and tongue-in-cheek. So, describing SW or LoTR as comedy in the “Shakespearean sense” is pretty silly.

Seen The Tempest? Measure for Measure?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As someone pointed out, I think, on these boards recently, Hamlet would have seen through Iago and Othello would have topped Claudius before the end of the first act.

Put Macbeth into either of those, and they would have been one act plays.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Put Macbeth into either of those, and they would have been one act plays.

Or the wife

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Seen The Tempest? Measure for Measure?

Oh no an exception!

 

[Stormonu]

I am amazed at the number of people dismissing or talking down this movie before even a teaser trailer is released. I mean I have no particular expectations at this point in time there is really nothing to base it on.
Ok the previous attempts were bad but also pretty low budget and fantasy is difficult to do on a low budget. I personally feel that movie will be good if there is no conflict at producer/director level and the director is into the project and is a good writer or hires a good writer.

While the past is not necessarily an indicator of future performance, Hollywood has a habit of botching things far more than they get it right. And right now, both the past D&D movies and the past work of those on these films is all we have to go on until they do put out a trailer - and trailers aren't exactly good indicators of the movie's true quality anyway, as they're nothing but positive spin (and unfortunately, massive spoilers these days).

 

[hopeless]

Given recent events there is good reason to be cynical about this.
But it could be much worse after all who would expect Warner Bros would announce the new Superman would be a black Kal-El on Henry Cavill's birthday?
So look on the bright side, this can't be as bad as that now can it?

 

[ART!]

It might be worth looking at the parties responsible when using the previous films as any indication of the potential quality of the new film.

So, on the new D&D movie:

Daley and Goldstein were the writers on Horrible Bosses, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Horrible Bosses 2, Vacation, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Game Night

Daley and Goldstein were co-directors on Vacation and Game Night.

Goldner and Davis produced and/or executive produced the Transformers and G.I.Joe movies, as well as Jem and the Holograms and the My Little Pony movie.

Latcham produced Iron Man and Iron Man II, Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-man: Homecoming, and Bad Times at the El Royale.

In contrast, the writers, directors, and producers of the three previous D&D movies also worked on...almost entirely a bunch of obscure, minor league stuff. I'm sure some of it was good.

I think what this all suggests is that the new D&D movie will be a major, studio tentpole, PG-13 action-comedy, and that it will probably be pretty darn entertaining - YMMV.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Given recent events there is good reason to be cynical about this.
But it could be much worse after all who would expect Warner Bros would announce the new Superman would be a black Kal-El on Henry Cavill's birthday?
So look on the bright side, this can't be as bad as that now can it?

wait what?

 

[ART!]

But it could be much worse after all who would expect Warner Bros would announce the new Superman would be a black Kal-El on Henry Cavill's birthday?
So look on the bright side, this can't be as bad as that now can it?

Reporting on this is inconsistent, as far as I can tell. One source says it's a reboot, another says it's not part of the DC movie universe. It could be in addition to whatever role Cavill may continue to have as Superman in the DC movie universe. There's just not enough info yet.

Also: why would that be a bad thing?

 

[UngainlyTitan]

While the past is not necessarily an indicator of future performance, Hollywood has a habit of botching things far more than they get it right. And right now, both the past D&D movies and the past work of those on these films is all we have to go on until they do put out a trailer - and trailers aren't exactly good indicators of the movie's true quality anyway, as they're nothing but positive spin (and unfortunately, massive spoilers these days).

While all of this is true, I still think that it does not justify the level of negativity on display here.
The thing about the big blockbuster is that they are often entertaining even if forgettable or otherwise bad.