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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[doctorbadwolf]

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?

Okay? Does Clark need to be white to be Clark?

Spoiler; the answer is no.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Okay? Does Clark need to be white to be Clark?

Spoiler; the answer is no.

but will he be the president?

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

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.

I think one big problem/misconception people are having is in the use of the word comedy and what it means to them. Something like LotR is serious drama/action with comedic elements. The Hobbit trilogy, like the book is more comedic in the beginning, that at the end. The Princess Bride is like The Hobbit, but with the humor better done. Then you get into the area of more comedy than action, like that awful Your Highness. I guess that is just a long way of saying that humor in the movie is good, outright comedy is not, or it will turn into the first D&D movie.

 

[hopeless]

Princess Bride, but yes.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Princess Bride, but yes.

That was a very weird auto-correct. lol

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I think one big problem/misconception people are having is in the use of the word comedy and what it means to them. Something like LotR is serious drama/action with comedic elements. The Hobbit trilogy, like the book is more comedic in the beginning, that at the end. The Princess Bride is like The Hobbit, but with the humor better done. Then you get into the area of more comedy than action, like that awful Your Highness. I guess that is just a long way of saying that humor in the movie is good, outright comedy is not, or it will turn into the first D&D movie.

Right. The movie will hopefully take itself seriously. I'm not interested in the "Scary Movie" version of a DnD movie.

Guardians of The Galaxy takes itself seriously. THe second film even moreso, in a lot of ways, but certainly the first one did so. The pathos of Rocket when he talks about the experiments done to him isn't subverted into mocking the character, or anything like that, it's played straight and then also some funny stuff happens.

If halfway through that scene, Peter Quill had freezed the action with a "time out" hand sign, and then made a joke about Rocket being a lab rat, I'd have turned the movie off and never finished it.

Even Deadpool, which has scenes like that, takes itself seriously within the context of a character who is aware that he is a movie character played by Ryan Reynolds, but that movie rides the line so closely that it's really the actors who make the movie work. The audience cares about Wade and about how this all plays out, because the movie doesn't make them feel stupid for doing so.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Guardians of The Galaxy takes itself seriously.

You and I have very different ideas about what "serious" means.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

You and I have very different ideas about what "serious" means.

I’m using the word in the normal usage. You also don’t seem to be catching the difference between the word “serious” and the phrase “takes itself seriously”. A humorous or whimsical work can take itself seriously. A farcical work like a parody does not.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I’m using the word in the normal usage.

Really?! Because Guardians of the Galaxy is considered a comedy "in the normal usage". See IMDB for example.

 

[Khelon Testudo]

A comedy can take it's premise seriously (Guardians of the Galaxy) or not (Spaceballs).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

A comedy can take it's premise seriously (Guardians of the Galaxy) or not (Spaceballs).

That's definitely a case of shifting the goalposts. [Rocket]"Oh, now it's only the premise that is serious."[/Rocket]

 

[doctorbadwolf]

That's definitely a case of shifting the goalposts. [Rocket]"Oh, now it's only the premise that is serious."[/Rocket]

No, it isn’t. I literally said that the movie should take itself seriously, and that there is nothing wrong with movies taking themselves seriously.

You misinterpreted that, apperently, to read as if I’d said they should be serious in tone. If I had meant that, I’d have said that.

Ive already explicitly explained this, and you’ve ignored it. I begin to wonder why.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Really?! Because Guardians of the Galaxy is considered a comedy "in the normal usage". See IMDB for example.

Where did I say that it isn’t a comedy? Quote me.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Where did I say that it isn’t a comedy? Quote me.

Definition of a comedy: "a film, play, or broadcast programme intended to make an audience laugh."

A comedy is not serious. Something that is serious cannot be a comedy.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Definition of a comedy: "a film, play, or broadcast programme intended to make an audience laugh."

A comedy is not serious. Something that is serious cannot be a comedy.

look let's break it down there are comedies who use their premice as just set up for joke in others there premice is the major thing and could likely stand with out the jokes.

do we agree on this?

 

[ART!]

Definition of a comedy: "a film, play, or broadcast programme intended to make an audience laugh."

A comedy is not serious. Something that is serious cannot be a comedy.

So if something is designed to make people laugh can't be serious, what's the ratio? How many jokes per [period of time] makes a "serious" work no longer "serious"?

I suspect there's terminology from art criticism that would be useful here, because "serious" is not descriptive enough.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

So if something is designed to make people laugh can't be serious, what's the ratio? How many jokes per [period of time] makes a "serious" work no longer "serious"?

I suspect there's terminology from art criticism that would be useful here, because "serious" is not descriptive enough.

Indeed. There is clearly a sliding scale. But we initially started talking about things that where "very serious", "over-serious" and "po-faced". Something that seems to be a trend in some TV and in DC movies. For example, Man of Steel (2013) takes it's subject matter (which is fundamentally ridiculous, just like D&D) far too seriously. Shadow and Bones takes it's subject matter far to seriously, forgetting that entertainment is supposed to be enjoyable, and so on. Away, Another Place, Stowaway. Too serious. Come to think of it, Netflix is a major offender.

 

[hopeless]

What would make the perfect balance?
Princess Bride for example wit, humor and good writing.
How serious is too serious?
If I had to make up a scenario off the top of my head using film and books as examples I'd mix the Hobbit with Leverage.
A group of adventurer's okay mercenaries are ambushed by rivals forcing a couple of them to flee as the last one standing holds off the attackers buying them time to escape.
One of them falls into a ravine and is thought killed as the other is overwhelmed and taken captive making it clear they want something from them,
The one who fell into the ravine actually fell into the river below and is dragged downstream losing consciousness in their efforts to remain above water and unknown to them someone dives in and pulls them out.
She wakes up in a small hamlet a little distance from the ravine she fell into her rescuer as burly tiefling farmer who makes sure she's okay before the other settlers peer at her curiously.
We learn she and her group were on their way to a nearby monastery carrying a scroll they needed translating.
Although she doesn't go into details we see from her viewpoint that she is carrying the scroll that she claims another was carrying and that she knows its very likely members of the same group that ambushed her are either already here or en route once they learn of her presence.
She tries to sneak out only to draw a couple of local youths who offer to escort her to the monastery as they know the way and although she tries to persuade them out of this the burly farmer turns up with a wagon driven by a horse making it clear he intends to make sure she gets there safe and sound.
A group of bandits try to ambush them en route leading to one youth revealing her skill at magic causing a number of them to fall asleep, the other takes the reins of the wagon as the farmer descends from the wagon drawing forth a sword and shield his cloak revealing he's wearing a suit of light chain as he deals with the remaining bandits merely knocking them out rather than killing them.
Making sure the bandits unconscious bodies are hidden to one side he returns to the wagon and continues the drive to the monastery.
They arrive and are greeted by the Prior who leads the adventuress to the scholar waiting for the scroll.
Whilst the youths look around the monastery the farmer stables his horse and makes sure his wagon is secure before drawing his blade again and walks outside.
The cloaked monks waiting for him query his action as he points out he knows they're not members of the order based here resulting in a brief fight with the youths desperately dodging the attacks as the pair know they're out of their element here.
The adventuress hearing the fighting discovers the scholar is actually the head of the band of rivals that attacked her party and although she barely escapes the chamber fleeing outside he secures the scroll much to her chagrin.
The scholar heads outside and is stunned to find his gathered mercenaries have been handily defeated by the farmer who greets him by name.
They recognise each other and the scholar's immediate response is to swear, pull out a crystal orb and pointing to the heavens teleports himself and his two remaining henchmen out of the monastery.
Freeing the captive monks we learn the female adventuress is a noted Monk, the youths are a novice wild sorceress and a novice bard whilst the farmer is a Paladin.
Not much of a story, but it could be turned into something decent at any game table, but a movie that's another story entirely!

 

[Stormonu]

I’m certainly hoping the movie is serious - more along the lines of LotR than, say Princess Bride or Guardians. I’m not against an occasional quip or momentary frame that is funny, but I just want to end up with a good fantasy movie with some D&Desque underpinnings for lore and monsters.

And no dreadful end-battles that are just CGI monsters fighting one another…

 

[hopeless]

DM NPC's are at it again!
Anyone remember the Dragon Strike introductory video?