honestly, I think now is the perfect time for a D&D movie. I feel like after COVID everyone has finally admitted to themselves that it's cool to RP. also having the leading man be a Bard is probably the best move they ever made. also Michelle Rodriguez can hulk slam me all she wants. even if this movie ends up being bad I can only hope it's as entertainingly bad as the 00's movie is.
I don't think this will be a "good movie" but the trailer looks like fun.
I have a feeling it is going to be a fun turn your mind off and watch movie.
Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power.
Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force shall set me free.
–The Sith Code
Hmm apparently it's Neverwinter. I thought that was Waterdeep (which would have made the underground area Undermountain) but then again FR lore has had a lot of Neverwinter in the last decade and a strong Thay presence there. So the underground area might be Gauntlgrym or an underdark city (does not feel like Menzoberranzan or Gracklstugh
? I am sorry but as I explained, it varies by setting. The D&D Brand is not one thing. Ravenloft was gothic horror decades ago and 5E expanded it to multiple horror genres adding things like survival horror. Dark Sun was never pulp, the very basis of the setting is desperation. From the start people have been playing Eberron like it's Sin City. The brand is expansive.
I'll be watching this. Deffo.
Trailer got me sold. Have ma monies.
/spit@Blizzard
Judging by the lore video put out by wotc alongside the trailer drop and what I saw in the trailer we are going to see Waterdeep, Neverwinter, Menzoberranzan and Gracklstugh.
Waterdeep and Neverwinter are directly mentioned in the wotc video. A map of Menzo is shown during the underdark bit and lastly the overweight red dragon in the trailer i'm quite sure is Themberchaud which lives in Gracklstugh.
That's basically it:
Gygax was always on the look-out for new monsters. Although he was able to draw on pulp fiction and sword and sorcery stories for many of them, he also looked through dime stores for figurines that could be used in battle. On one of those occasions, he came across a bag of small plastic toys euphemistically labeled "prehistoric animals". Made in Hong Kong, the set included monsters from Japanese "Kaiju" films such as Ultraman and the Godzilla franchise. Several of these were odd enough to catch his eye, and he used them to represent several new monsters, including the owlbear, the bulette and the rust monster.
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply,” Stephen Covey.
After giving it a second watch I hope we didn’t just see every cool part of the movie. Wish they had saved the owlbear for the movie, as that would have been a great surprise scene. I’ve geeked out twice about that now, damn the “rules”!
Druid, Bard, Pally, Berserker. What class is the fifth guy? (The one that explains the owlbear)?
Yes, as i said in THIS post.
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“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply,” Stephen Covey.
Remarkably for a cultural object often relegated to nerd fodder, it will be the basis for a multi-million dollar Hollywood adaptation led by some massive stars: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page and Hugh Grant. If you'd have told us this could happen five years ago, we wouldn't have rolled the dice, we'll tell ya that much. The neeks are taking over the world.
Pine is a whimsical bard, Edgin, who apparently enjoys a good strum of the lute. Rodriguez portrays a barbarian, Holda, having gained ten pounds of muscle for the role. They're joined in the central band of titular thieves by Justice Smith, portraying a sorcerer, and Lillis, portraying a druid. The creators are clearly going to some length to replicate the lore of the RPG, even if the film strikes a surprising tone.
Page, for his part, portrays a paladin called Xenk, rocking some tremendously cool looking armour. If the Stranger Things connection wasn't more obvious, Page told the Comic Con crowd he “basically grew up as Eddie Munson,” the character portrayed by Joseph Quinn in season four of the sci-fi series, himself a D&D enthusiast. “I know a little something about escapist fantasy that gives you no limits.”
Most surprising is the tone: this ain't Game of Thrones or The Witcher. The vibe is much more in line with the off-kilter comic sensibilities The Princess Bride, pulsating with action and boasting a quippy script. For his part, Chris Pine reckons it's somewhere between the two. Speaking to Collider back in March, he said:Originally Posted by Screenrant
“The way I've been describing it, it's like Game of Thrones mixed with a little Princess Bride, just a smidge of Holy Grail; it's somewhere in that ballpark. It's a lot of fun. It's got a lot of thrills. It's poppy, it's eighties heartfelt, there's a bit of Goonies in there.”