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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6679180" data-attributes="member: 5834"><p>Did they have issues with the Dark Elves in <em>Thor: The Dark World</em>? I didn't hear any racial outcry over that film. You can do dark elves. Just do a mixed cast and use make-up like they did in Thor. It's not like you could cast people of African descent and not use make-up on them. They don't naturally have white and silver hair or violet or red eyes. It would still take a great deal of make-up/effects to duplicate drow elves no matter who you cast. It would be a very appealing world. You would also attract the MMORPG crowd given dark elves have been in two of the most popular MMORPGs. <em>Everquest</em> dark elves were definitely based on D&D. WoW dark elves not so much. Still dark elves are a known group. It would be cool for D&D to introduce them in cinema in a different way than <em>Thor: The Dark World</em>.</p><p></p><p>D&D has already attempted what some are suggesting on this thread. They've tried to write a fantasy movie sort of D&D based. They all failed. If they don't try to use established properties with followings outside of D&D, I'll bet they fail again. This idea of writing something from scratch when they have popular, established characters in novels would be another example of squandering their intellectual property. If they don't use one of their established novel lines with a fan base outside of D&D expect the next D&D movie to end up like all the others. That's my prediction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 6679180, member: 5834"] Did they have issues with the Dark Elves in [I]Thor: The Dark World[/I]? I didn't hear any racial outcry over that film. You can do dark elves. Just do a mixed cast and use make-up like they did in Thor. It's not like you could cast people of African descent and not use make-up on them. They don't naturally have white and silver hair or violet or red eyes. It would still take a great deal of make-up/effects to duplicate drow elves no matter who you cast. It would be a very appealing world. You would also attract the MMORPG crowd given dark elves have been in two of the most popular MMORPGs. [I]Everquest[/I] dark elves were definitely based on D&D. WoW dark elves not so much. Still dark elves are a known group. It would be cool for D&D to introduce them in cinema in a different way than [I]Thor: The Dark World[/I]. D&D has already attempted what some are suggesting on this thread. They've tried to write a fantasy movie sort of D&D based. They all failed. If they don't try to use established properties with followings outside of D&D, I'll bet they fail again. This idea of writing something from scratch when they have popular, established characters in novels would be another example of squandering their intellectual property. If they don't use one of their established novel lines with a fan base outside of D&D expect the next D&D movie to end up like all the others. That's my prediction. [/QUOTE]
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