“This is such an enormous opportunity to bring the rich fantasy setting of the Forgotten Realms to life." Warner Bros., Hasbro and Sweetpea Entertainment have announced a new Dungeons & Dragons film is in the works, now that the companies have settled a years-long legal dispute over who held the screen rights.
Back in 2013, Hasbro was working with Universal on a new Dungeons & Dragons movie, while Warner Bros. and Sweetpea developed their own film. Hasbro then sued Sweetpea over rights to make a new film, but the companies have now compromised in an undisclosed arrangement and are proceeding forward with this project.
Orphan and Wrath of the Titans screenwriter David Leslie Johnson has already penned the script for the new Dungeons & Dragons. The producers for the film are Brian Goldner and Stephen Davis, of Hasbro; Courtney Solomon and Allan Zeman, of Sweetpea; and Roy Lee, who's previously worked on The LEGO Movie and How to Train Your Dragon.
“This is such an enormous opportunity to bring the rich fantasy setting of the Forgotten Realms to life and, together with the creative powerhouse of Warner Bros., use movies to tell the stories that have enchanted passionate D&D fans for decades,” Davis said. “D&D is the role-playing game that started it all and now we have the opportunity to ignite a franchise for its legions of avid fans in a way never done before.”
I would like to see an adaptation of the D & D cartoon from the 80's.
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Fifteen years ago, there was a Dungeons and Dragons movie. And it sucked. Well now, Warner Bros. has cleared up the rights issues and announced they’re moving forward with a new movie not just based on the RPG, but on its immensely popular Forgotten Realms setting.
The fact that the film will be set in the Forgotten Realm, where most D&D novels and video games have been set, implies that WB is taking a much more serious attempt at bringing the hit RPG to movie screen that the previous film. There’s not only a wealth of stories to adapt, but the franchise’s most popular characters live in the Forgotten Realms, including the tragically noble dark elf Drow named Drizzt Do’Urden.
There are no other details on the plot, so there’s no telling if Drizzt will make his big-screen debut (we’d say the chances aren’t bad, however). We do know that the film will be written by David Leslie Johnson (The Conjuring 2, Orphan, Wrath of the Titans) which doesn’t seem optimal, but it sounds like WB has plans on making the D&D movie on par with the upcoming Warcraft film from Duncan Jones and Universal. In a press release, Greg Silverman, Warner Bros. president of creative development and worldwide production, said the following:
We are so excited about bringing the world of Dungeons & Dragons to life on the big screen. This is far and away the most well-known brand in fantasy, which is the genre that drives the most passionate film followings. D&D has endless creative possibilities, giving our filmmakers immense opportunities to delight and thrill both fans and moviegoers new to the property. Will audiences be open to the kind of massive, open-ended, user-created fantasy world Dungeons and Dragons offers? We may not really know until next summer when Warcraft hits theaters. If that film is the success Universal hopes it is, you can be sure Warner Bros. will be even that much more excited for Dungeons & Dragons. The name recognition alone will pique the interest of millions.
Just model it after the bloody cartoon and it will be awesome. Its what the first movie should have been.
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What they're going to do is film a action-adventure fantasy film with most of the creatures and characters that populate D&D----and it's going to come off like a poor man's version of LOTR.
What they SHOULD do---but won't----is a coming-of-age film about a bunch of kids PLAYING Dungeons and Dragons. Done right, it could be a great comedy that will have teenagers AND their parents laughing and crying in the theatres. You don't have to film the famous Dead Alewives' radio sketch, but those guys GET Dungeons and Dragons. I don't think the producers of this upcoming film will.
What they SHOULD do---but won't----is a coming-of-age film about a bunch of kids PLAYING Dungeons and Dragons. Done right, it could be a great comedy that will have teenagers AND their parents laughing and crying in the theatres. You don't have to film the famous Dead Alewives' radio sketch, but those guys GET Dungeons and Dragons. I don't think the producers of this upcoming film will.
I can't imagine anything that I would run away from faster.
What they're going to do is film a action-adventure fantasy film with most of the creatures and characters that populate D&D----and it's going to come off like a poor man's version of LOTR.
What they SHOULD do---but won't----is a coming-of-age film about a bunch of kids PLAYING Dungeons and Dragons. Done right, it could be a great comedy that will have teenagers AND their parents laughing and crying in the theatres. You don't have to film the famous Dead Alewives' radio sketch, but those guys GET Dungeons and Dragons. I don't think the producers of this upcoming film will.
What they SHOULD do---but won't----is a coming-of-age film about a bunch of kids PLAYING Dungeons and Dragons. Done right, it could be a great comedy that will have teenagers AND their parents laughing and crying in the theatres.
I can't imagine anything that I would run away from faster.
Unless they did a D&D version of Jumanji....I reckon that might make Jeff, and everyone else, run away even faster.
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I've always felt the key to a good AD&D show would be to not dwell on back story, character origins, or saddle themselves with an overly epic, world changing or world saving adventure. Just assume the audience is well enough acquainted with the general premise of AD&D, magic, monsters, etc., and take them on a typical scenario, a regular adventure.
I think it'd have to be a TV series and not a movie - though later movies might be an option - and character development and back-stories could be explored in a more episodic manner as the series progressed. Also, some AD&D world details, and setting details, could also slowly come out over time. Never try to overload the audience with too much at once, or require the audience know AD&D in detail to understand the story.
It might better suited to animation - I'm not sure.
In a way, it would have to be done like Star Trek, TOS, with fantasy and magic instead of science and science fiction.
Great incidental music and stories and social commentary, if you can manage it, and I think that's the only decent way to do an AD&D show.
Although, a soap opera format might be a possibility, as well.
Most things I've seen dwell on the overly epic or some details that the characters, quite frankly, would already be familiar with and wouldn't need to comment on. They take themselves too seriously, too much like epic heroes saving the world rather than exceptional men and women in a dangerous business - adventuring - in a dangerous world - for more simple reasons, fun and profit or just honing one's ever increasing skill sets.
Oh, yeah, and you can't try to tweak your speaking or language into older styles of English or weird accents - thees and thous, etc. but talk like contemporary 21st century people - sans technical jargon, of course - or you'll turn off your audience.
Just my opinion, of course, but I'd try that if I were making an AD&D show, and I'd watch that approach made by others before most other approaches.
Just do a smallish story for the first movie. A quest. Make sure to use locations from the Forgotten Realms, some creatures specific to D&D like maybe Drow, Kua Toa, and so on.
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Just do a smallish story for the first movie. A quest. Make sure to use locations from the Forgotten Realms, some creatures specific to D&D like maybe Drow, Kua Toa, and so on.
Or maybe even Eberron. Have some steampunk type stuff in there.
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Ideally, for me would be to take one of the module series, like say the giants, or slavers modules and make a series of movies based on them. Just yaknow, flesh them out.
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