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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 7540726" data-attributes="member: 6906155">Having given this some thought, here is my movie pitch: D&D: PlanescapeReasoning: I want to include the elements of D&D that have never been seen in a fantasy movie before, so I'm steering clear of the Tolkien-derived stuff (No one has ever done a Moorcock movie <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )Story elements (not a full plot):The movie starts on Earth in the present day (apart from in this world no-one has heard of D&D). Following some weirdness, a mismatched group of people are rescued by their odd friend, who takes them through a portal to Sigil. Reasoning: this represents the idea of everyday people becoming "characters" without going full-on Jumanji, and remaining within the lore of the setting. Their friend turns out to be a tiefling. Reasoning: elves, dwarves and halfings have been done-to-death in movies, tieflings have been in the game for almost as long but have never been seen in live action before. The party will later be joined by a comic-relief goblin or kobold companion. The main plot involves the war between the githyanki and illithid, with both sides treated as horrific monsters. Reasoning: mind flayers have been name-checked (along with a 1st ed illustration) in Stranger Things - I suspect the set of people who have seen Stranger Things is greater than the set of people who have played D&D. To emphasise the horror of the illithid, and that the stakes are "real", one of the human party members has their brain devoured, in as explicit a fashion as the censers will allow for the rating. As well as Sigil (a chance for the designers to really go to town on the visuals) the adventure also travels to Toril (Insert joke about why people from Sigil call it "The Forgotten Realms"). Reasoning: a chance to showcase other D&D settings. Also included in the tour of the multiverse is the Shadowfell. Reasoning: Stranger Things, and a chance for someone to say "It's like The Wizard of Oz, only backwards!". At some point in the movie there is a chase sequence in which the characters pass through many worlds in rapid succession. Reasoning: This is a chance for D&D fans to play "name that world" whilst just having some stunning visuals for everyone else.Other elements to squeeze into the plot: at least one dungeon and one dragon, to justify the name. Also, rust monsters, owlbears and gelatinous cubes.Elements not in this plot: Drow, beholders not called Xanthar.</blockquote>

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