Two more very positive reviews! Well then…
Interesting. I said it might be worth paying attention to several months ago, because…
Studio, cast, source material, almost always irrelevant. It’s the filmmaker who matters (or, here, makers). Crossing my fingers that this really does deliver.
A D&D movie needs to be a swords-and-sorcery tale (NOT High Fantasy) in which a morally gray mid-level collection of misfits pull a heist on the dungeon of a Medium Mediocre Evil Guy, thereby slightly nudging The Balance in favour of Good.
It should feature the following tropes
“Destiny is bullshit”
1st level mooks cannot save the world - they get squished on dungeon level two. Leave it to the professionals
A thief properly detecting and disarming a trap.
Magic users faffing around with spell selection and conponents
Hiding shady stuff from The Paladin
A 10’ pole
A black pudding or a green slime type monster
Goblins shouting “bree yark” at their ogre ally
A privy
Running away from a high level monster
Iron rations
Ok i quite like the trailer. Id like more dirt and grit but it looks fun.
Three minute movie clip if you’re so inclined. Sight gag spoilers:
OMG is that a cameo by the characters from the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon in live-action form?
Sure looks like it!
Bobby got ripped since the last time we saw him.
From what I heard, the other-other group is played by the Critical Role cast. Not as their characters, but actor cameos.
Cool if true, but I’m pretty sure I saw Diana the Acrobat in there, who would be hard to cast with just core members of Critical Role.
No, there’s a group to their left and a group to their right. The group to their right (facing them) is the cartoon group. The considerably less colorful group to their left is the CR actors group.
Ah, cool, that makes more sense.
Going through a pre-built maze as some kind of challenge was a plot point in the ill-fated 2000 DnD movie too.
Gods, no. What, you want to toss a gazebo in there too, Eric?
Not me. I want a D&D movie that looks like a Larry Elmore illustration.
No no no no no no no no no
Elmore is cheesy van art.
Holloway’s comic action.
Or Otus’ weirdness.
The hell with those. Give me Jeff Easley and Clyde Caldwell, and if I’m feeling nasty, maybe Gerald Brom. Those guys are the definition of D&D to me.
Your taste in illustration is 75% jejeune.
Brom fan, huh? Figures.
I will always and ever be a Keith Parkinson fan (may he RIP). I have a signed print of his on my wall, and I treasure the brief (second-hand) communication I had with him a few years before his death.