Why call it D&D when it really would be a fantasy setting movie. Movies like Willow could easily be said to be D&D based. Unless you were to be running an adaptation of a popular module like Temple of Elemental Evil you are just putting needless expectations into it because there is no real characters aside from your own that you would be pulling. Maybe you could do some myth or novel conversions from series like the dragonlance novels. The problem with the previous D&D film was it did not go into the lore stories, and character classes are traits and not the characters themselves. they do have some potential for some LOTR level movies. However, those are the historic events that happened in certain places like what happened with Myth Drannor, but random characters going on an adventure does not need full reference to D&D and should have it's own title and plot.
They keep coming at it all wrong. Everything Tererun said? None of that. You have to have the players telling the story, like grandpa in Princess Bride, and they get all drunk and goofy, and stupid shit starts to happen, and the DM cracks down on them, and there's a fight, and the fat kid leaves crying, and they have to calm him down and get him back, because he's the access to the group car... That's the shit that makes it D&D.
That would be a fun comedy, and yes you could do a D&D thing like that. Harold and Kumar play D&D could be a good movie. You might be able to do a good road trip to a gaming con with Living City at it sort of movie. I would think you would have to throw in some otherworldly stuff. You could call it something like different things and have them get attacked by tiamat in the wrong side up.
Chris Pine Says The Dungeons And Dragons Movie Is A Mix Of Game Of Thrones, Princess Bride, And Monty Python
It probably would do better as a tv show. There’s also this. Voice actors playing D&D That later turned into an Amazon Prime show with a second season on the way.
DenOfGeek verdict: Not perfect but has enough heart and laughs to keep you from caring about the imperfections. https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/dungeons-and-dragons-honor-among-thieves-review/
Now that I can watch this without going to a theater or pirating a poor-quality copy filled with ads for a shady online casino, I have seen it. I wish I was a halfling and that Michelle Rodriguez was an Uthgardt barbarian twice my size, willing to be exiled from her tribe just to be with me. This fantasy would have never occurred to me on my own, but thanks to this movie, it is now a fantasy I have. Best movie ever.
It's on Paramount Plus for free. I liked it, too bad the Mario movie drowned it out at the box office.
Just saw this last night, and it is a pretty good movie representation of how most D&D parties I have seen end up happening. The useless wizard who fucks up all the time, the barbarian that ends up saving everyone's ass, dealing with the goody goody paladin when your party wants to steal all the loot in the land, the OPed shapeshifter, the quest for the item that is key to the mission but wasn't going to be needed in the end anyway because the players fucked everything the DM had planned up. I did enjoy that the DM slipped a fucking portal gun in there and the players ran with that shit. Then throwing a diabetic dragon in there was a great DM way to throw a dragon into the campaign but nerf it enough so the players could deal with it and throw some fat ass dragon comedy in there. The movie knows most D&D parties are full of fucked up reject characters that stumble through a campaign and had fun with it.
