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Dungeons & Dragons Is Getting a Film Franchise

Posted by Soulskill on from the hope-they-hit-the-saving-throw dept.

New submitter IT.luddite sends word that Hasbro and Warner Bros. have announced Dungeons & Dragons will be getting its own film franchise. They already have a script, and they'll be working with production company Sweetpea Entertainment, but they haven't picked a director, yet. They'll have at least some of the people on board who worked on the D&D movie from 2000, which was a flop. The deal between Hasbro and Warner Bros. comes after a prolonged legal battle about who owned the rights to a D&D movie. They note, "All rights for future Dungeons & Dragons productions have been unified and returned to Wizards of the Coast, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hasbro."

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  1. Should be... again. by vux984 · · Score: 4, Informative

    As in " Hasbro and Warner Bros. have announced Dungeons & Dragons will be getting its own film franchise." ... again.

    Or are we pretending now that they they didn't already drop a bunch of D&D turds?

    In 2000 (saw it, amusing for what it was, but it was awful)
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...

    IMDB lso lists this, which I haven't seen
    2005 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt04... ("straight to video")
    2012 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt17... ("TV movie")

    And which seem to have "2" and "3" in the subtitles... suggesting they were sequels? I haven't seen them, and based on the 1st one... I'm not sure if anyone should.

  2. Record of Lodoss War by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thinking about a film franchise of D&D somehow always reminds me of the anime "Record of Lodoss War." That was well done and had obvious D&D mechanics (including "called shot on the dragon's eye"), well thought out characters, and an interesting plot which could have been taken out of a D&D campaign. In fact I vaguely recall that it was actually a narrative account of a real D&D (or similar RPG) campaign...

    I'm sure it's more hard than this, but why not just get a good D&D group to play through a real campaign, and then turn it into a movie?

    Actually I'm wondering somehow if they could have the premise be people like Dame Judy Dench, Vin Diesel, and several other real-life actors to play an (actual) game, and turn slipstream it into the actual characters doing things, maybe with voice-overs of their respective characters. I'm sure it wouldn't be nearly as good as I'm imagining, but it sounds really epic in theory.