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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7687886" data-attributes="member: 7006">Doubt it.  The general public knows nothing about the Forgotten Realms.  The closest any non-gamer person out there might know to something related to the Realms is the name 'Drizzt Do'Urden', as that's the ONLY Realms character or reference that has perhaps penetrated the general pop culture lexicon.  Hell... I'd venture a guess that it's all the early 80s adventure modules that have more name recognition to the general public than anything else Realms related.  Ravenloft would get recognized before Elminster.  Tomb of Horrors would get recognized before Waterdeep.  Which means by your way of thinking, the movie should be about either of those two adventures set in Greyhawk.But they're not going to do that, because it isn't any specific D&D name that matters-- it's the D&D name itself.  That's it.  They'll worry about a story and characters first, D&D tropes second, then any possible nerd identifiers third (unless they make a Drizzt Do'Urden movie, in which case I'd push the nerd identifier into second position.)  So I don't think Hasbro's even coming close to worrying about keeping the "Forgotten Realms" name "out there" in the tabletop sphere so that it's on our minds if/when they make a movie.  One, because there's no guarantee any name or reference will actually be IN the eventual D&D movie... and two, none of the movie-going audience would recognize the darned things anyway.You know what will become the icons of the D&D brand when all is said and done?  Whatever characters and references appear in the D&D movie if the thing ends up being successful.  Heh... you think you hate all the Realms stuff now because its so overdone?  Just wait until a generic D&D movie comes out and makes money, and then hear every other person and their mother talk about those names and ideas as the entirety of Dungeons & Dragons.  You won't be able to get them to understand the concept of the Realms at that point if you tried.</blockquote>

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