What would make a Good *D&D* Movie?

[WD40]

Plus, I want to see a warforged on-screen.

Ever see the Judge Dread movie? ABC Warriors FTW!


I'm gonna Scan my movie collection for a sec...

No one has mentioned Disney's Black Cauldron yet... Sure, it's kid-flavored, but it fits.. Fits quite well.

It's a little known fact that two 'Ewocks' movies were made... The first one has a decent Ewok cast including a Fighter, Wizard and Rogue, along with fight scenes involving giants and huge spiders, (Huge, clearly immobile plastic spiders I might add XD). The second one completely ignores the Starwars background, and lets fly with Evil Witch-Queens and Ewok Druids.

I also own an ancient b-movie called 'Wizards of the Lost Kingdom' which works...

The Ever-Popular Willow, not to mention Krull... (Actually, I prolly shouldn't have mentioned Krull ;00) are often derided, but serve as decent D&D-flavored movies.

To be honest.. I think it's the idea of Character-Roles and in-party interaction that really define a D&D movie more than it's setting/flavor.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Put a thin veneer on paint on the script of that ageless original The Magnificent Seven.

You mean The Seven Samurai. Anyway, I'd do The Village of Hommlet and The Moathouse. Would only be able to have a Dragon overfly the characters of course.

 

[Ridley's Cohort]

Of course.

The attraction of the The Seven Samurai as a D&D movie is the building of a team of interesting & distinct personalities one by one, then going off to save the village.

It transfers trivially to all heroic action sub-genres. And it fits D&D particularly well because of the extreme diversity of the types of heroes.

Anything more complicated is pretty much doomed IMNSHO.

 

[Insight]

Of course.

The attraction of the The Seven Samurai as a D&D movie is the building of a team of interesting & distinct personalities one by one, then going off to save the village.

It transfers trivially to all heroic action sub-genres. And it fits D&D particularly well because of the extreme diversity of the types of heroes.

Anything more complicated is pretty much doomed IMNSHO.

All right. Super awesome D&D script using the Seven Samurai as the template - GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[Eldragon]

Indeed. I could probably work up a treatment for a "D&D" version of this, The Searchers, Stagecoach, or Rio Bravo this weekend. Heck, I could probably do it this afternoon.

Reading this post made me suddenly realize that all of my best campaigns are plots from old westerns, but I replaced Indians with Goblins, and Europeans with elves.

 

[sniffles]

Actually, what you NEED is a screenwriter+director combination that understands D&D. The problem with the first movie was that I didn't feel that the writers or director really understood the D&D experience.

Which is curious since supposedly the director was a D&D player.

 

[blargney the second]

If I had to pick one defining element of D&D, it would be cure spells. They're what make dungeon crawls and all the rest possible.

 

[WD40]

If I had to pick one defining element of D&D, it would be cure spells. They're what make dungeon crawls and all the rest possible.

Depending on your interpretation on cure spells and Hit Points, there may already be decent examples of Cure spells out there. Reading this comment lead me to create this thread: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=201311

If you take a view on cure spells as I do, then the female leads 'Kiss for Luck' on the story's hero could quite easily constitute a heal spell or effect.

 

[Kaodi]

The next Dungeons & Dragons inspired movie should have a distinct lack of dragons, any a minimum of dungeons, none if possible. Some stereotypes do not need to be reinforced in movie after movie after movie...

The possible exception is if you were doing an Eberron movie that was set up for possible sequels, perhaps a character from the first movie would be exposed as a member of the Chamber in the third movie. That way, you could have a dragon, without having a dragon.

I think D&Disms should be the kind of thing that would not seem out of place to someone who wasn't a gamer, but would be fairly apparent to someone in the know.

 

[Hstio]

The next D+D movie should be out by Gen Con - the one FFG iss doing for Midnight. I'm hoping it doesn't put the setting to shame.

Hstio