D&D General Who should play Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in a D&D biopic movie?

[Sacrosanct]

It's a D&D biopic. That means forget about any recognizable actors. It's gonna be after school special budget.

 

[MGibster]

Gygax would say, "Brad Pitt, of course! He's the spitting image of me. Put him in a beard and some glasses, and only Mr. Pitt can portray that Gygax dignity with verisimilitude."

Nah. This was a man who was angry about Arnold Schwarzenegger being cast as Conan because his hair was the wrong color! I'm sure he'd want someone more accurate like Jack Black maybe.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart.



It'd be entertaining, you can't deny that.

 

[Rafael Martin]

It's a D&D biopic. That means forget about any recognizable actors. It's gonna be after school special budget.

Disagree. When you consider that the 50th anniversary of D&D is approaching, I think a movie about the origins of D&D can be made with a real, Hollywood budget. Let's make it happen.

 

[MGibster]

Disagree. When you consider that the 50th anniversary of D&D is approaching, I think a movie about the origins of D&D can be made with a real, Hollywood budget. Let's make it happen.

Heck, you could probably focus on Gary's attempts to market D&D in Hollywood and that might be fun!

 

[Norton]

Heck, you could probably focus on Gary's attempts to market D&D in Hollywood and that might be fun!

That would be a very marketable angle to frame the story. If I'm a studio head, I'm ordering that spec sharpish.

 

[Fenris-77]

Sadly, we'll never see my dream casting of George Carlin as Gary Gygax.

 

[Aldarc]

It's a D&D biopic. That means forget about any recognizable actors. It's gonna be after school special budget.

In that case, I propose Tommy Wiseau as Gary Gygax and Alan Bagh as Dave Arneson.

 

[loverdrive]

Well, I'd cast George Clooney and Keanu Reeves as every male character in every film, so my opinion doesn't really matter, does it?

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

It might be too on-the-nose, but I'd just pillage Stranger Things:

Gygax:

Randy Havens:

Arneson:

Brett Gelman: