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[What if?] John Boorman directs Gygax's D&D movie
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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7834591" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Boorman's general skill isn't the problem. His suitability for a project like this is. I mean, look at his other projects from this era. More broadly, this would have been a bad, bad time to make a D&D movie generally. Its the tail end of auteur era, which Boorman is part of, where films are for filmmakers, not audiences and Star Wars etc had started to change things but not for directors like him.</p><p></p><p>As such, you'd likely have had a very phantasmagorical and perhaps metaphorical movie that had little to do with D&D and which probably wasn't very watchable, nor really lasting as a classic. With a different director, say Rob Reiner or John McTeirnan or someone, and being made in the mid 1980s or later, sure, that could have ended well, but in that era, with that director and writer? No.</p><p></p><p>Also you somewhat slanderous if amusing scuttlebutt list of "wasted on set" people misses the point - Welles was giving a lot of phoned in and terrible performances and had no physicality by that point. He'd have been bad in anything but a cameo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7834591, member: 18"] Boorman's general skill isn't the problem. His suitability for a project like this is. I mean, look at his other projects from this era. More broadly, this would have been a bad, bad time to make a D&D movie generally. Its the tail end of auteur era, which Boorman is part of, where films are for filmmakers, not audiences and Star Wars etc had started to change things but not for directors like him. As such, you'd likely have had a very phantasmagorical and perhaps metaphorical movie that had little to do with D&D and which probably wasn't very watchable, nor really lasting as a classic. With a different director, say Rob Reiner or John McTeirnan or someone, and being made in the mid 1980s or later, sure, that could have ended well, but in that era, with that director and writer? No. Also you somewhat slanderous if amusing scuttlebutt list of "wasted on set" people misses the point - Welles was giving a lot of phoned in and terrible performances and had no physicality by that point. He'd have been bad in anything but a cameo. [/QUOTE]
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