D&D Movie/TV There's A New Trailer For D&D: Honor Among Thieves

A brand new trailer for the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie has just been released! The movie comes out March 31st. This trailer very much highlights the tongue-in-cheek nature of the movie and is filled with one-liners. The trailer also gives us a good luck at the Red Wizards of Thay, along with the mimic, the owlbear, and other iconic D&D monsters.

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[Ruin Explorer]

Sorcerers do get at-will Eldritch Blasts, which you can see him spamming when the party is fighting the Red Wizard.

That's Warlocks.

Sorcerers get at-will cantrips like Fire Bolt.

 

[mamba]

Is it possible (or maybe the better question is "is it likely") that they get a cut of the box office? I don't really know how deals like that work at this level of film, so I'm genuinely curious.

I’d say likely… if you expect the movie to be a success, you take a percentage, if you expect it to fail, you take a lump sum. See The Witcher games

 

[pumasleeve]

Guarded optimism - a trailer does not a movie make. The trailer for the first Suicide Squad had me super jazzed and look how that turned out...

Edit: not thrilled about the lazy writing they chose to showcase:

Character: Don't do the thing!

[thing happens]

Character 2: I did the thing. Sorry.

[me rolling eyes]

At least suicide squad gave us Harley Quinn. This move looks like 2000s era cgi effects and a bad script

 

[grimslade]

Does China know or care?

 

[DMZ2112]

I'm glad the black dragon isn't in this one. I want to have words with the director who thought interpreting the black dragon breath weapon as "vomiting crude oil" would be cool.

 

[mamba]

The budget for the film is estimated at $45 million. The typical guideline for a movie to break even is to make twice its budget in sales

does that include the marketing? Usually that is about as much as the movie itself

 

[Undrave]

I'm glad the black dragon isn't in this one. I want to have words with the director who thought interpreting the black dragon breath weapon as "vomiting crude oil" would be cool.

It's acid.

 

[Undrave]

Closer to the other way around IME.

Ah, the Slap-Happy Jack principle!

On this I disagree. Pathfinder is more well known than many fantasy book series that have been adapted into films in recent years, they have solid stories to draw from, and would probably feature a goblin in the main cast. I think it’d do fine.

Do those fantasy book get movie adaptations? I feel like a Pathfinder movie after a D&D movie comes out would look like a cheap knock off to the lambda viewer… I don’t know if it’s something a studio would like to get involved with.

 

[Kinematics]

does that include the marketing? Usually that is about as much as the movie itself

Yeah. It's just a rough guideline, but all the marketing/advertising/distribution/etc is commonly estimated as being about as much as the cost of the movie itself. Thus, twice the production cost to break even.

 

[Von Ether]

/stares at you in horror

However that is the correct reaction to someone running Castle Falkenstein with 3E lol.

And I did it only with the Player's Handbook. Part of the secret is that it was 3.0, when things were a little more loosey-goosey. (Blame 3.5 on the organized play of the time.)

... and let's just say -- just like Mutants and Masterminds did years later -- players can be surprising open to "optional rules" to the point the amount of optional rules used pretty much makes up a new game.

I guess most player don't think about the Ship of Theseus much.