D&D Movie/TV Where is all of the Honor Among Thieves D&D stuff, WotC?

[Reynard]

Oh sure sure. I agree but they didn’t rewrite anything and it didn’t boost sales on the already best selling novels. People didn’t go into stores saying “I need that novel with Elijah Wood on the cover”. They said “do you have Lord of the Rings?” and the clerk said “sure” and they bought whatever the clerk handed them.

No, they saw the logo and a recognizable image and they bought it. They didn't ask anyone.

But, sure, this wasn't a misstep or lost opportunity. That wouldn't happen with the current WotC leadership.

 

[teitan]

They do this all the time - it is a pretty common thing in book publishing. Most of the time when they turn a book into a movie, they reissue it with a tie-in cover. Hunger Games, Twilight, and yes, even LotR. A notable exception is the Harry Potter books.



It is easy to forget we here are a niche of a niche and there are orders of magnitude more people that know who Chris Pine is than know what the Forgotten Realms are.

Oh for sure. My point is that the generic world of the starter sets already conforms to everything that a tie in product would need. It just lacks the artwork. Novels are one thing, they’re cheaper and easy, you slap a new cover on them. To tie into a game adventure is development time, which means they need the script, which means NDA, which means lead time, etc etc. is it worth the investment when the product already meet 95% of what a tie in product does like name recognition and setting? No.

 

[Cadence]

It says… DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. The movie is called what again???

Honor Among Thieves?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It says… DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. The movie is called what again???

Hasbro is laying off staff. Aiming for "eh, good enough" is a great way to be among those cuts.

 

[Jer]

Hasbro is laying off staff. Aiming for "eh, good enough" is a great way to be among those cuts.

Hasbro's problems are in the corner offices. Job performance rarely corresponds to who gets fired under those conditions IME.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hasbro's problems are in the corner offices. Job performance rarely corresponds to who gets fired under those conditions IME.

Oh, man, I have the exact opposite experience. Idiot c-suite people send out mournful emails as their incompetence has led to a 30% staff cut. Once you manage to wriggle your way high enough up the org chart, it takes a lot for you to take the fall for your incompetence.

I think we're more likely to see top Hasbro execs play musical chairs than be fired.

 

[ThrorII]

Like it or not, FR is 'default D&D setting' now. The term 'forgotten realms' is being left to wither on the vine

And there isn't much 'Forgotten' about that realm anymore. I feel they've really fleshed out that world to the Nth degree.....

 

[Jer]

I think we're more likely to see top Hasbro execs play musical chairs than be fired.

Oh no - I must have phrased something wrong. That's exactly what I mean. The competent people end up having their jobs eliminated while the idiots in the corner offices who caused the problems either change job titles or at worst get hired to break things at another company.

 

[Reynard]

And there isn't much 'Forgotten' about that realm anymore. I feel they've really fleshed out that world to the Nth degree.....

Well, one corner of it.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Didn't Subway have a tie-in with The Hunger Games franchise? What inappropriate product could you tie-in with the D&D movie?

Given the satanic panic D&D Forgotten Realm's Bible publisher tie in. Remember Xenk and Holga died for your sins.