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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6679267" data-attributes="member: 22424">Something I forgot to address, on the topic of motivation.My best suggestion for making a D&amp;D movie would be to hire Vin Diesel and the Rock (and, ideally, the whole team behind the last three &quot;Fast &amp; Furious&quot; movies) to do the job. My main logic there is that they have a track record of making films that are at least entertaining (though I wouldn't necessarily say good), and that are hugely successful.But, crucially, that also goes some way to dealing with motivation. Vin Diesel is famously a D&amp;D fan (of course), and he's also known to have made films as a labour of love - notably the third &quot;Riddick&quot; film. So it's possible he would be willing to take on the task, and it's likely also that he could get together a team that would do the job, and do it competently.(That strategy would also suggest not using Drizzt, for two reasons. Firstly because I'd rather give a hired team of experts free rein to do their stuff, without being bound to stick to the fixed story; and secondly because the tone of the F&amp;F movies is not at all like the tone of the Drizzt stories. Not necessarily better or worse; just different.)Having said all that, of course, it's entirely possible D&amp;D fans would respond to a D&amp;D/F&amp;F mash-up with a fairly emphatic &quot;do not want&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6679267, member: 22424"] Something I forgot to address, on the topic of motivation. My best suggestion for making a D&D movie would be to hire Vin Diesel and the Rock (and, ideally, the whole team behind the last three "Fast & Furious" movies) to do the job. My main logic there is that they have a track record of making films that are at least entertaining (though I wouldn't necessarily say good), and that are hugely successful. But, crucially, that also goes some way to dealing with motivation. Vin Diesel is famously a D&D fan (of course), and he's also known to have made films as a labour of love - notably the third "Riddick" film. So it's possible he would be willing to take on the task, and it's likely also that he could get together a team that would do the job, and do it competently. (That strategy would also suggest [i]not[/i] using Drizzt, for two reasons. Firstly because I'd rather give a hired team of experts free rein to do their stuff, without being bound to stick to the fixed story; and secondly because the tone of the F&F movies is not at all like the tone of the Drizzt stories. Not necessarily better or worse; just [i]different[/i].) Having said all that, of course, it's entirely possible D&D fans would respond to a D&D/F&F mash-up with a fairly emphatic "do not want". [/QUOTE]

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