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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 8230406" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Writer Derek Kolstad (<em>John Wick</em>) has shared an insight into the upcoming D&D TV show <a href="https://collider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/collider.com/dnd-tv-show-details-derek-kolstad-interview/amp/?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a6&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16166211638340&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fcollider.com%2Fdnd-tv-show-details-derek-kolstad-interview%2F" target="_blank">with Collider</a>, which he says will be 6-10 serialized episodes with an Underdark element.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]134620[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>His approach is a "tinier sliver" of the world, compared to epic stories like <em>Lord of the Rings</em>. He compares it to <em>Star Wars </em>and <em>Jaws</em>. He mentioned that he's like to go "deeper and deeper into the Underdark".</p><p></p><p>[callout]"In the first <em>Star Wars</em>, you heard about Jabba the Hutt and you don't see him until the third one because you earn at that point, and whatever the budget was for the third one compared to the first one, who cares, right? And I think in <em>Dungeons and Dragons</em>, who has this massive, dedicated community of acolytes, I don't want to suddenly throw everything on screen and say, 'Here's the buffet.' You'd much rather keep the story intimate. When you think of our favorite movies, I'd rather do the <em>First Blood</em> version. It's a guy in the woods being hunted. And it's very small, but you allude to the other things through conversation."[/callout]</p><p></p><p>As yet the show is untitled. Kolstad talked a bit about legal meetings and available characters for use. It sounds like he wants to set it towards the end of any 'metaplot' that D&D might have -- "... don't want to go in the middle of the mythos. I want to come near the end where everything is canonical, it's biblical, it's happened. Or, it's about to happen. That way you can revisit certain sequences and storylines that everyone loved in the past through flashback, but where we go is new"</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]w-ytA27fxW8[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 8230406, member: 1"] Writer Derek Kolstad ([I]John Wick[/I]) has shared an insight into the upcoming D&D TV show [URL='https://collider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/collider.com/dnd-tv-show-details-derek-kolstad-interview/amp/?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a6&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16166211638340&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fcollider.com%2Fdnd-tv-show-details-derek-kolstad-interview%2F']with Collider[/URL], which he says will be 6-10 serialized episodes with an Underdark element. [ATTACH type="full"]134620[/ATTACH] His approach is a "tinier sliver" of the world, compared to epic stories like [I]Lord of the Rings[/I]. He compares it to [I]Star Wars [/I]and [I]Jaws[/I]. He mentioned that he's like to go "deeper and deeper into the Underdark". [callout]"In the first [I]Star Wars[/I], you heard about Jabba the Hutt and you don't see him until the third one because you earn at that point, and whatever the budget was for the third one compared to the first one, who cares, right? And I think in [I]Dungeons and Dragons[/I], who has this massive, dedicated community of acolytes, I don't want to suddenly throw everything on screen and say, 'Here's the buffet.' You'd much rather keep the story intimate. When you think of our favorite movies, I'd rather do the [I]First Blood[/I] version. It's a guy in the woods being hunted. And it's very small, but you allude to the other things through conversation."[/callout] As yet the show is untitled. Kolstad talked a bit about legal meetings and available characters for use. It sounds like he wants to set it towards the end of any 'metaplot' that D&D might have -- "... don't want to go in the middle of the mythos. I want to come near the end where everything is canonical, it's biblical, it's happened. Or, it's about to happen. That way you can revisit certain sequences and storylines that everyone loved in the past through flashback, but where we go is new" [MEDIA=youtube]w-ytA27fxW8[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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