Dungeons & Dragons Big Budget Movie On The Cards!
August 4, 2015 by brennon
Dungeons & Dragons is going to be getting it's own big budget movie. Yep, I also took this news with a winch of pain at the original one that popped up a while back with Jeremy Irons in it. Shockingly bad...
Warner Bros are going to be controlling the project and thankfully they've dealt in fantasy before with the likes of Harry Potter and The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings. Also, with the Warcraft movie looking to wow fans next year it makes sense that D&D takes to the stage too.
It will be interesting to see how they tackle the narrative and whether or not they go with the whole 'adventuring party' theme or drop it in exchange for something a bit more wide ranging dealing with larger conflicts within the world of (lets face it) Forgotten Realms.
Fingers crossed...
"...with the Warcraft movie looking to wow fans next year it makes sense that D&D takes to the stage too."
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If it’s a proper Forgotten Realms movie, they ought to have a lot of backstory to work with, meaning we can actually get a movie with some content this time, instead of just random adventuring like the old D&D movie (didn’t they make one more a few years ago, that went directly to DVD??), and possibly more than just a single movie as well…
Personally though, I would LOVE to see an Ebberon based movie – now THAT would be awesome 😀
Or a series of Dragon Lance movies 🙂
Darksun would be sweet to behold as well 🙂
I recently had the chance to read the graphic novels of two of my beloved books of my adolescence, Dragons of Autumn Twilight and Homeland. I have to say that Drizzt stand the test of time and the novel, the story in general is still very much enjoyable, while the Dragonlance comic really let me down. The story in particular is simply not interesting….and at the time I loved Dragonlance way more than Forgotten Realms novels. Anyway, if they will not use Drizzt as character in this move I think they are crazy, I mean, they have a character at… Read more »
There was at least a second D&D movie and it was pretty good. Not LotR trilogy good but better than the Hobbit movies.
The problem with any D&D movie based on an existing campaign world is that there needs to be tons of exposition to get the general audience up to speed. That info dump tends to ruin movies.
@brennon “Also, with the Warcraft movie looking to wow fans”…
I swear I’ve seen a few ‘D&D’ movies on the SyFy channel after midnight. They look, in acting and costumes, only slightly better than you’d expect from someone fairly new to LARPing (no offence meant to any LARPers out there).
While the above will not be hard to beat I do hope they go for a dark and gritty tone and avoid being too cheesy.
Yeah, the sequels do look like someone took a camera to a LARP lol
A larp would have better special effects though 😉
It would be so very cool if they did a Drizzt movie, they could do more movies based on the books by R. A. Salvatore. i think that Matt Goss who played prince Nuada in Hellboy 2 would make a great Drizzt.
Guess I’m the only one that hopes Drizzt ISN’T in the movie. The first trilogy was interesting because it gave us a perspective of the Underdark beyond a dungeon romp. While that could equally be an interesting movie I don’t think it would work as an introduction to the Forgotten Realms for those not already familiar with the world. The second trilogy that deals with his struggle to be accepted by surface races was also pretty decent. But after that the Drizzt series started to become trite, like a saturday morning cartoon only without the entertainment value. Oh look, he’s… Read more »
I hope that they recast Jeremy Irons as the bad guy. I also think its time for us to recognize the genius of a thief named Snails.
There were three D&D movies, and none of them was great, though the second one was passable for a Sci Fi Channel flick (I think it was before they became SyFy). I personally think D&D movies are bad ideas because there really is no universally-agreed-upon setting even amongst gamers themselves, much less the general public, from which one could draw a stable mythology to wrap a film around. So any D&D film inevitably devolves into a series of mechanical, monster and spell references adding up to not much more than a bunch of in-jokes for the gamers in the crowd.… Read more »
I think Salvatore’s books are the biggest best seller so from marketing perspective would make sense to make a movie of Drizzt. I don’t know much about all the Drizzt books, I think I’ve read 4 or 5 in total but the first trilogy is very good in my opinion and it would be perfect for a trilogy, with the young Drizzt that learn about the dark elves society during his adolescence together with cinema audience, I would say everyone knows now about elves, dwarf etc thanks to the Tolkien movies so it might be the good time to start… Read more »
Can’t we just have few Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser movies instead?