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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[Imaculata]

"Serious moments" does not make a serious movie, just as moments of levity does not make a film a comedy.

What Doctor Badwolf was getting at, was that a movie needs to take its central threat seriously. Ghostbusters wouldn't work, if it didn't also scare the audience. Guardians wouldn't work if it wasn't serious about its core plot.

A movie can be serious and also funny. Ghostbusters is totally serious. In fact, Dan Aykroyd really wanted the ghost busting tech to be believable and serious, because otherwise the movie doesn't work... and you get that awful reboot.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

What Doctor Badwolf was getting at, was that a movie needs to take its central threat seriously. Ghostbusters wouldn't work, if it didn't also scare the audience. Guardians wouldn't work if it wasn't serious about its core plot.

A movie can be serious and also funny. Ghostbusters is totally serious. In fact, Dan Aykroyd really wanted the ghost busting tech to be believable and serious, because otherwise the movie doesn't work... and you get that awful reboot.

"Takes if premise seriously" does not make it a serious movie. The vast majority of comedy, beyond Monty Python and the Holy Grail, takes it's premise seriously, but the intent is still to entertain the audience and make them laugh. A serious movie is one that tires not to make the audience laugh. Disney/Marvel does not make serious movies. DC/Warner does (sometimes), and that is why the Marvel movies succeed where the DC movies fail.

 

[Rob Kuntz]

There is no such thing, at least by theater or cinematic standards and terminology as a "serious" movie. " Serious" is a singular reaction and subjective, i.e., "The story was too serious for me.". Directors do not set out to make "Serious" movies. They are dramatic, comedic, tragic, and sometimes epic, all traditional forms throughout fiction, theater and film. Likewise one should not confuse humor with overt comedy, as humor is a normal human condition and thus occurs side=by-side in drama, lest humans become cardboard cut-outs of themselves.

 

[MNblockhead]

Am I the only one hoping that "subversive" mean musical comedy?

I want a D&D version of Galavant.

Tad Cooper, I BELIEVE IN YOU!

 

[doctorbadwolf]

"Takes if premise seriously" does not make it a serious movie. The vast majority of comedy, beyond Monty Python and the Holy Grail, takes it's premise seriously, but the intent is still to entertain the audience and make them laugh. A serious movie is one that tires not to make the audience laugh. Disney/Marvel does not make serious movies. DC/Warner does (sometimes), and that is why the Marvel movies succeed where the DC movies fail.

Jfc!

LOL

Thank you for saying what I said in the first place, and acting like that isn’t what happened!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

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

Spoiler; the answer is no.

Black Superman doesn't mean black Clark Kent, Black Superman in DC comics is Calvin Ellis who is also President of the United States in an alternate universe, so Henry might get to keep his job after all.

Calvin Ellis

Calvin Ellis, Kryptonian name Kalel, also known as Superman, is a Kryptonian president of the United States on Earth-23. On his Earth, he became Superman in addition to being the president. It is likely he's native to Vathlo Island, due to his reference to the word Vathlo. He operates from the...

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[Mind of tempest]

Black Superman doesn't mean black Clark Kent, Black Superman in DC comics is Calvin Ellis who is also President of the United States in an alternate universe, so Henry might get to keep his job after all.

Calvin Ellis

Calvin Ellis, Kryptonian name Kalel, also known as Superman, is a Kryptonian president of the United States on Earth-23. On his Earth, he became Superman in addition to being the president. It is likely he's native to Vathlo Island, due to his reference to the word Vathlo. He operates from the...

superman.fandom.com

Calvin Ellis that was his name.

 

[hopeless]

So all those articles about them going with a Black Clark Kent instead of using an existing equivalent to a Black Superman (eg: Icon) are all rubbish?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

So all those articles about them going with a Black Clark Kent instead of using an existing equivalent to a Black Superman (eg: Icon) are all rubbish?

Why does it matter?

 

[hopeless]

The ones I have been reading and watching seem to think Abrams & co are more interested in race changing than actually creating something that would be worth watching.
It would be nice to discover whether this is the case or rather they're actually using Icon or Calvin Ellis or whoever he's called.