It seems that the Dungeons and Dragons movie gets traction for filming next year and casting is underway with The Lego Batman Movie director to direct.
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Thoughts? This movie has lots of potential and it could lead to the Magic the Gathering movie they planned for years.Any D&D or MTG players here?
I'm optimistic and Hasbro's Allspark Pictures company first film was a success and good(Bumblebee).
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give it the jumanji treatment. it has to be a fun romp. that's all it has to do.
Is it going to be a comedy with middle school humor?
The film is said to be GotG meets LotR. They also mentioned that the film won't be about humans travelling from our world to D&D world but set in the D&D world itself. Same with MTG movie. I'm actually happy about this,fuck that kind of storytelling of humans gone in the other world.
GotG humor
What D&D characters does Yea Forums hope to show up?
only D&D movie I'm interested in seeing.
bad idea in my opinion, although it all depends on what "meets gotg" actually means. The good part about gotg is that it has interesting characters that get good character development in addition to having unique skills and weaknesses. The tone, humor, and approach to the setting is all very Marvel and while it works for GOTG I think it would be a very bad idea to try and replicate with D&D.
Though I guess another good thing about GotG1 is that it's full of hot actresses like Melia Kreiling and Ophelia Lovibond playing bit parts.
Dave Arneson ... (game)
Michael Gilio ... (screenplay)
E. Gary Gygax ... (game)
David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick ... (screenplay) (as David Johnson)
Geneva Robertson-Dworet ... (earlier screenplay) Produced by
Stephen Davis ... producer
Brian Goldner ... producer
Roy Lee ... producer
Courtney Solomon ... producer
Allan Zeman ... producer Art Department
Thea Dumitriu ... concept artist: freelance
Are the writers good? I liked Lego Batman Movie,no idea how's the director into live action but Travis Knight did live action Transformers right and he came from animation industry too. Optimistic
id definitely go see it even if it sucked
And Zoe Saldana
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>That Hashtag Show reports that Michael Gillio, who was brought in to rewrite Johnson's script, has turned in a new draft that has studio executives "absolutely buzzing." According to That Hashtag Show, McKay is no longer in line to direct and the film is currently without a director. While Paramount looks for a new director, the search has also begun for the movie's male lead.
>The studio is reportedly looking at a list that includes Will Smith, Josh Brolin, Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Matthew McConaughey, Jamie Foxx, Joel Edgerton, Dave Bautista, Jeremy Renner, and Johnny Depp.
Will it be kino? /our movie/?
I hope WotC pushes the anti-men angle even further.
I just hope they use a lot of the monsters. I'm not a big D&D guy but I've always thought the monster manuals were cool to flip through. I want to see a displacer beast.
I’ve been DMing a game for a couple of months now. It’s a New World not!America setting in which a hierarchy of Kobolds, Lizardfolk, Dragonborn, and Half-Dragons are the natives. I wanted to make my players like the natives until being truly exposed to their culture, but having the colonials be mildly racist turns out to mean that they’re unredeemable in their eyes.
Is it really going to be based on the Fell's Five comic from IDW, or did you just grab any old image, OP?
the first one was ok
How many cards and miniatures does Yea Forums have for D&D or MTG? Post them
Just grabbed an old image,no idea on what story is basedbut they said it will be true to D&D and WotC are working closely with Hasbro on this one.
>I'm optimistic
Cause the first two dungeons and dragons movies weren't shit at all.
they've already tried three times.
Maybe if they do a drow-centric exploitation flick...
Vin Diesel lead is the only one that wouldn't be terrible.
Ayy, I never played DnD or MTG, but I do appreciate and enjoy good fantasy stories, particularly and especially of Arthurian legend type.
This,Vin is also a D&D fan and player.
I never watched them
>the first one was ok
I'm positive it's almost impossible to make a good fantasy movie/tv show, especially nowadays.
Not true at all,Nexo Knights is kino
bring back the damn cartoon
As someone who plays/runs D&D, the movie format is not a good match. It doesn't translate, it misses the point of what makes D&D great. It'll just be some fantasy schlock. Not everything needs to be a movie.
Keep that for yourself. Just don't watch it.
>MtG “people”
God I wish you were all rounded up and gassed. Worthless, fat, autistic eaters.
>I'm optimistic
that's your first mistake
>MTG
>bad
Kys
D&D has a lot of cool monsters,which ones does Yea Forums want to see on the big screen?
Post your miniatures Yea Forums
this and matthew lillard or its udder garbage
drow
Why lillard?
basically all of them, they're the star of the show imo
gorgon
Wtf,looks cool as fuck. Are all the DD monsters that cool?
He plays d&d and his company has a good relationship with WoTC already:
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I would unironically give my organs if they make a faithful adaptation of Fell's Five comic.
>being over 12 and “playing” a literal p2w card collecting game
Kill yourself, worthless eater.
D&D is a pretty broad term, I wonder what is the movie about specifically?
Fuck off D&D fag.
In movie or we riot
For the overly hammy performance of Irons alone. The rest of it was terrible. The second one was decent straight to dvd budget thing.
If its not forgotten realms based with a Drizzt cameo to get the fanbase roiling/fangirling they're doing it wrong
Say that again to Dani Trejo and you're dead
I'll just stick with the D&D cartoon.
I love Nicol Bolas,any MTG fans here?
Go take a shower, landwhale.
>dyel mexicunt manlet
>intimidating
Top fucking cuck
>Courtney Solomon ... producer
kek. that's the guy who directed the 2000 D&D flick with Jeremy Irons and his blue lipstick. is that a contractual obligation or does solomon have actual creative input here?
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credit where credit is due: he actually put a black chick in it as an elf almost two decades before that shit became fashionable
No not all of them.
Oh my kek
Lol,children shit. Isn't this the children nerd game? Dumb game
What are Yea Forums favorite cards?
Hahahaha
Why can't we like both D&D and MTG?
GO FOR THE EYES BOO, RRAAAGH!!!
I want to see a Bulette, Beholder, Yuan-ti abomination, or some of the more obscure fiends like a Vrock or Gelugon, but I find it unlikely.
Based
I don’t give a fuck if you like D&D or not but MTG is shit Shit SHHHHIIITTTTTT
more excited for this desu
MTG is kino
>only D&D movie I'm interested in seeing.
This is great source material that has been mostly ignored for a long time. I have always thought that a well made trilogy would do well. The characters aren't 2D cutouts but have a good basis to be well developed in movies. If anything it might be hard to get enough in to do the characters justice. Could also work as a 3 season premium TV series as long as they don't take it to yawn-town like GoT. The material is there to keep it moving and it's a neat world that people would like if it was done right.
I worry that we are instead going to get a generic D&D movie with heavy effects and thin story.
I remember this played in my city for but a week before it vanished.
I would agree adding that a well done premium TV series would be a better match to allow for the world and characters to breathe and develop. Movies don't have much time to develop more than one or two characters and with D&D you need to feel you know the whole group. Otherwise they are generic fantasy tropes.
>it will be cgi shit
>Nicol Bolas
Garbage, over-hyped creator waifu.
I think it gets overlooked for a few reasons.
1. The prose is not that good and there are various other technical issues with the writing, so fantasy lit snobs turn their nose up. (Many, I think, are annoyed of its success and jealous).
2. There was a glut of Dragonlance books (over 100) of inconsistent quality by a variety of authors.
3. The post-Legends canon (Age of Mortals, etc.) as managed by W&H kind of shits on the original trilogies.
4. Dragonlance faded in popularity as a campaign/videogame setting in favor of Forgotten Realms (which admittedly probably works better as a videogame setting).
5. Too much like Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson's trilogy was amazingly successful, but was also a big risk. If you're going to put that much time effort and money into a movie trilogy it makes sense to go with the #1 rather than a second-string effort like Dragonlance.
But yes, I agree. It has great, memorable characters that are both consistent and have some depth, with interesting conflicts and relationships (it does the romantic elements better than LOTR in my opinion). Each trilogy tells a great epic fantasy story. It has a good balance of starting out with an accessibly grounded, low-magic feel before gradually introducing fantastical elements.
>its going to be either a boring Dragonlance-esque story or another generic "dragons knights and a wizard" movie with little to no connections to the source material
JUST GIVE ME AN EBERRON / RAVENLOFT OR DARK SUN STORY
I get your skepticism with DnD meeting GotG. For some reason people see things as serious in DnD and Pathfinder. Like the first game I ever played a teammate went out of his way to try to kill me for some banter. Fuck nerds tbhonest. Let the movie be fun so nobody's reminded that actual DnD is full of fun hating min-maxer retards.
>I think it gets overlooked for a few reasons.
>1. The prose is not that good and there are various other technical issues with the writing, so fantasy lit snobs turn their nose up. (Many, I think, are annoyed of its success and jealous).
This is true. It's the story and characters that are great, not the literary skill. Which is why I think it makes great source material
>2. There was a glut of Dragonlance books (over 100) of inconsistent quality by a variety of authors.
This is very true and it's a shame because if they'd just stuck to the original authors the writing might have improved and you'd have the characters handled better. Like Trek and Star Wars books, it turned into a pulp mill.
>3. The post-Legends canon (Age of Mortals, etc.) as managed by W&H kind of shits on the original trilogies.
This would need to be ignored. Mostly Chronicles and Legends are all we'd need.
>4. Dragonlance faded in popularity as a campaign/videogame setting in favor of Forgotten Realms (which admittedly probably works better as a videogame setting).
This always annoyed me but I get it. Dragonlance had way more heart though.
>5. Too much like Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson's trilogy was amazingly successful, but was also a big risk. If you're going to put that much time effort and money into a movie trilogy it makes sense to go with the #1 rather than a second-string effort like Dragonlance.
This is somewhat valid if handled as an effects heavy pure action style series. The key to making it work is to make it all about the characters, and then when the big stuff happens the audience is invested instead of seeing generic fantasy characters fight CGI battles.
He actually might still own some filming rights. Back in the day he was able to buy them dirt cheap as no one expected a big budget movie to be made of D&D
Why? forgotten realms is their money maker, most popular setting.
I'm with you on all points. There's a lot of potential there.
>Dragonlance-esque story or another generic "dragons knights and a wizard" movie
>they've already tried three times.
This is why I'm really curious why Dragonlance just doesn't seem to be on the radar. Why do they keep doing Game2Movie adaptations when the typical result for that kind of movie is a flop like Warcraft, when they have some good quality story material to work with?
>tfw will never get a dragonlance remake
I just want to see Raistlin portrayed as the incel he was and to see caramon as the black man he was supposed to be.
Also tanis as a mulatto who experiences hate from the evil whites, and sturm the mulatto who experiences racism from the evil white knights of Solamnia.
And the kender as an emaaculated white boy limp dick.
I just want a movie true to th source material
yeah I don't think D&D needs to be super-serious. I like Baldur's Gate and that has a lot of silly humor. I guess if I was going to start mapping gotg to D&D I'd compare Drax and Minsc. But still, I think the Marvelquip brand of humor in GotG is hard to pull off outside of comic book superhero movies.
Snails carried the movie. Was sad to see him rip.
>when theyre going through the thief town and snails steals a stuffed cat
Based stealing negro
I read a Dragonlance novel once when I was a kid because I liked the color of the book. I think it was about some warrior guy and his minotaur friend.
Anything that wasnt from the 'dragons of a...' series is trash
That sounds like its from the twins in time or whatever
If he was done right maybe Drizzt. But I doubt they could do him justice as just a cameo.
i hope it's based on the cartoon. it was kino.
Owlbear ofc
>tfw dragonlance was written by 2 women
I still hate women but those 2 are ok
>Hollywood ruins another piece of childhood
>prepainted
>that final episode never ever
GODAMIT
Will they get cameos? They did raise 11mil on kickstarter
Planescape movie when?
>the first two
>He doesn't know
What can change the nature of a movie?
The adventuring shop scene was pure D&D kino
not sure if trolling, but Tracy Hickman is male.
img I loved dragonlance books despire never playing D&D when i was a kid
I used to cisit this czech dnd website where they talked about it and bought all the books I could
kek
fuck u. humans going into DnD world makes perfect sense for the movie.
Have you tried not playing D&D?
vin diesel
joe magiliano
ben affleck
Deb ann wol
all need to be in the movie
And were going to end up with the male cast of Grown Ups + Black Jack as the only redeeming actor of the movie
I get how that concept sounds like shit on paper but D&D would just seem like the generic Lotr rip off without it.
>Why do they keep doing Game2Movie adaptations when the typical result for that kind of movie is a flop like Warcraft
Because they can't resist equating brand recognition with asses in seats, which continues to be wrong. Unfortunately Hollywood is filled with those employed by nepotism, not talent. They will continue to make this mistake and ignore good source material. Not just things like Dragonlance but a wealth of lesser known stories from books they simply don't think have enough brand recognition. It all boils down to idiots in charge of what gets adapted.
Will it have katana wielding ogre mages that keep sex slaves?
Only if Joe plays a movie version of Arkhan the Cruel.
I unironically liked this movie, owned the DVD, and watched it multiple times.
Okay. I'm just going to point this out. Because it -will- happen.
They're going to make elves out to be these awesome bastards despite the setting never making this the case, in any campaign setting medium. The charm of D&D is that humans are the apex race. They can match dwarven smiths, match or exceed elven wizardsSeriously, human wizards are superior to elven wizards in EVERY CAMPAIGN SETTING KNOWN, and their political ingenuity has lead to each setting propsering better under them than any other race.
But, yeah, you know they're not going to do that, because cultural and racial diversity is a thing right now.
I don't doubt they'll just decide to make up their own, original setting. Which is probably what they're going to do, because then WotC will just shill the setting out as a buttfuckload of supplements that newfags to tabletop will just, absolutely devour.
I'm too ignorant of DnD to agree with you, but I believe it anyway
it could be good, but it sounds a lot like something that would be said by people who don't understand either LOTR or GOTG.
>This is somewhat valid if handled as an effects heavy pure action style series. The key to making it work is to make it all about the characters, and then when the big stuff happens the audience is invested instead of seeing generic fantasy characters fight CGI battles.
I think the other angle Dragonlance has is that the setting really romanticizes Dragons and gives them mythical status. I think that would translate well into a movie.
It's a thing. Earlier editions only humans could reach peak levels. Magic-Users eclipsed elves at magic prior to elves becoming their own race instead of a race!class.
And in the latter editions, that sweet bonus feat at level 1 is so good. Humans often get access to a prestige class earlier than other races thanks to it.
What the fuck is this nerd shit?
>I think the other angle Dragonlance has is that the setting really romanticizes Dragons and gives them mythical status. I think that would translate well into a movie.
Maybe 10 years ago. We're in an age of CGI overload and everything is about trying to out-Bay the previous thing. They'll never make dragons or anything else wondrous again purely by showing them. The only way to do epic now that out brains are desensitized to shit looking "epic" by special effect is through writing and acting. Sell the dragons through the story, not through a bunch of CGI. Ironically we've come full circle to the days before decent effects to where you can do a lot more through not directly showing a thing.
>Tracy
>Male
Dilate
Yeah well that's my point. There's nothing special about a CGI Dragon. But Dragonlance makes the dragons cool by what they do in the world and in the story. If you were faithful to the spirit of the novels, the story would start out really emphasizing the terror and destruction of the dragons. You could start the whole series showing the massacre of Que-Shu, you wouldn't even have to show a dragon. Just the dragonfire melting rock and the people dying in agony, and Verminaard looking for the Blue Crystal Staff.
For almost 2/3rds of the story, the dragons and evil armies seem nearly unstoppable. The story is about how the heroes manage to finally defeat what seems like an overwhelming enemy.
The Dragonlance setting is full of supporting detail for Dragon-related stuff. You have the centrality of Dragons in the world's lore, there's the Dragonlances, the Dragon Orbs, the Dragon Highlords, and the Dark Queen. The Dragonarmies are your Evil Empire. Most other settings don't emphasize Dragons so heavily, and honestly this is usually a good thing as far as game campaigns go. But for a movie it could be a really strong unifying theme.
If the movies took off and were successful, by the time you ever had a big CGI battle between Dragons(Kalaman), audiences would be invested and you'd be able to depict Blue and Bronze and Gold Dragons and so on and people would enjoy it.