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'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' Releases First Trailer, and a Tavern at Comic-Con (cinemablend.com) 39

Posted by EditorDavid from the other-kind-of-GNOME dept.
Thursday the first trailer appeared online for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves — and 15 million people have watched it. "Here's the thing. We're a team of thieves..." actor Chris Pine says in a voiceover. "We didn't mean to unleash the greatest evil the world has ever known. But we're going to fix it."

The video's description explains that "A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves brings the rich world and playful spirit of the legendary roleplaying game to the big screen in a hilarious and action-packed adventure."

The trailer also features Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Hugh Grant, and a Druid that can turn into an Owlbear.

But at Comic-Con's Gaslamp Quarter there were also photo ops inside the legendary gelatinous cube, at a pop-up tavern serving glow-in-the-dark Dragon's Brew. The official "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Tavern Experience" drew this rave review from Esquire. "Rest assured, friends, if the actual Dungeons and Dragons movie is anything like the tavern, it'll be a rocking, hilarious, self-aware, and — most importantly! — a fun trip." The team behind Dungeons and Dragons rigged the bar so that it would rumble like hell and fill with smoke whenever a dragon appeared on a massive video screen at the front. (We were supposed to infer that the tavern was under attack....)

Save a grog for me.
"Based on what we've seen, this movie looks like it's going to be a whole lot of fun," writes CinemaBlend: If you're hyped up for the campaign Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is promising here, you can take your place at the metaphorical gaming table starting March 3, 2023.
As the movie's trailer asks, "Who needs heroes when you have thieves?"
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  • You can imagine the pitch (Score:3)

    by DrXym ( 126579 ) on Sunday July 24, 2022 @06:47AM (#62728926)
    "It's like Guardians of the Galaxy but with Dungeons and Dragons!". A whiff of desperation off that trailer.

    • "Guardian of the Galaxy meets Critical Roll. The geeks will love it!"

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      This is the 4th D&D movie, the others being lower budget affairs. There only one I really remember is 3, which was straight to video I think. It wasn't bad. It wasn't great either but fun if you like D&D.

      The best unofficial D&D movie ever made us Hawk the Slayer. At least that's how we used to play D&D.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Macdude ( 23507 )

        The best unofficial D&D movie ever made us Hawk the Slayer.

        The best unofficial D&D movie is The sword and the Sorcerer. Its plot was clearly written by 1/2 a dozen tween boys in a basement.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Jhon ( 241832 )

        "The best unofficial D&D movie ever made us Hawk the Slayer. At least that's how we used to play D&D."

        I first saw that when I was a kid. It was amazing!

        Then I saw it again in my 30s. Oh, the effects were so bad. I couldn't "unsee" how bad and it ruined the movie for me.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

          The low budget is what makes it great! The sets are literally falling apart, within the first minute you can see a random bit of one of them fall through the frame. The "magic" is just a can is silly string. I.e. it's on the same level as most of our D&D games.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

      "It's like Guardians of the Galaxy but with Dungeons and Dragons!". A whiff of desperation off that trailer.

      Hasbro money machine goes whirr....

      Wizards of the Coast is one of Hasbro's more profitable divisions, because stuff like Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons are very cheap to produce, can earn a lot of profit, and have a ton of IP to license out and do stuff with.

      Magic the Gathering - well, they print cards - printing cards is a stupidly cheap thing to do even at a high quality printer, so yo

    • Looked more like "If you can't make it good, make it CGI" to me.

      I really have no idea whether it's any good or not, but the wall-to-wall CGI isn't encouraging.

      • You can't do D&D without wall to wall CGI or it wouldn't really be D&D. Instead it would be whatever bits you could manage to force into your limited story, puppets, and makeup artists.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by DrXym ( 126579 )
        Guardians is mostly CG too in fairness. I think it worked mostly because the comedy came from the actors occupying their characters, the interplay between characters and the situations they were in. The CG by itself wouldn't have made the movie a hit although it did contribute.

        We only have the trailer for this D&D movie but it's clearly a blatant copy, almost beat for beat. But the virtual no-names writing & directing it hardly assure good things of the final product.

  • I had my hopes up it was a live action version based on the cartoon. But sadly not.
    • Every attempt at making a good D&D movie seems to fall flat on its face. It always come off as campy and hokey. The 80s cartoon was pretty damn cheesy. The 2000 movie lacked the ability to pull you into the story. Maybe casting a Wayans was a bad idea? Gifted comedians, but that can also be a curse if you need to do an intense acting scene. The trick is having some comic relief without dominating the screen. Pippin & Mary from TLOTR is a good example of the right amount of comic relief in this sort

      • I wonder if part of the reason is that the AD&D universe has a ton of content in it, be it Athas (from the Prism Pentad), Neverwinter, Forgotten Realms, the Outer Planes, Spelljammer spheres, and so on. Finding some place that is common to everyone is tough.

        Plus, fantasy is a saturated field. Unless it is new or esoteric IP like the 1980s movies (Krull, Legend, Willow, Neverending Story), it is hard to have stuff that is new that can bring audiences in and get a movie past the "cult classic" stage. F

  • It looks fun, but (based on a short trailer, of course) I'm not seeing the association with D&D specifically. The subtitle could be the whole title and the film would look just as fun.

    Is this something funded by Hasbro with hopes of starting their own MCU type of thing?

    Is there enough name recognition in the general population (those that never played D&D) that a producer felt it necessary to license the name?

    I'll say it a third time, this film looks fun; I'm simply curious about the association wit

    • Most likely it has some name recognition and this is very typical of Hollywood to lazily and poorly borrow things. Very few movies based on video games resemble the actual video game especially if Paul W. S. Anderson (not to be confused with Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson) or Uwe Boll is directing it.

    • Re:Why D&D? (Score:4, Informative)

      by RoccamOccam ( 953524 ) on Sunday July 24, 2022 @09:48AM (#62729198)

      I'm not seeing the association with D&D specifically.

      Seems to have quite a bit, to me. Chris Pine is a bard. The black dragon spits acid. An owlbear and a gelatinous cube. Dice rolling to see if an attack hits.

      [I made up that last one.]

    • It looks fun, but (based on a short trailer, of course) I'm not seeing the association with D&D specifically.

      To me it had a number of fun D&D references, the ones I remember offhand are acid dragon (almost never have seen those outside D&D), the mimic chest, the various classes represented (including bard).

      And well, a lot of dragons generally. And Dungeons.

      Also I'm not super deep in the lore but from what I've seen reactions of that green fire sword is very D&D.

    • Dnd has been getting more and more popular, after Stranger Things, the pandemic and this new wave of 80s/retro nostalgia. Some Dnd podcasts have been getting more popular than ever and we even got an animated series (Vox Machina). So, due to all this momentum, they thought it was a good time to try and invest in a movie. Good!

  • Hmm... (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Hope it doesn't suck as much as the Dungeons & Dragons move with Justin Whalin did back in 2000.
    • At least the CGI these days looks more capable of what the story needs. Whether the story and acting are better remains to be seen.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by jwhyche ( 6192 )

      I predict this movie will get suck harder than the proverbial hooker with the garden hose and golf ball. Or it will be okay. From the trailers I'm not seeing much that makes me want to go see it just from the bad memories of the other movies.

  • Here's the thing. We're a team of thieves... We didn't mean to unleash the greatest evil the world has ever known. But we're going to fix it."

    Seriously, the joke writes itself...

  • D&D? All thieves? (Score:3)

    by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) <drink@hyperlogos.org> on Sunday July 24, 2022 @07:40AM (#62729018) Homepage Journal

    It's just going to be one long series of attempts to backstab

    • And like in every stealth-based game, as soon as shit goes tits-up, you're fucked because nobody can fight in their origami armor.

    • Or they have enough thieves to kill off one or two of them while adding other characters (of other classes) for the ending (or a sequel)?

    • Thief is a profession, not a class. :)

      As far as classes in the party I noticed a bard, a paladin, a wizard, a fighter (maybe barbarian?), and a druid.

      Movie looks like it could a lot of fun!

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  • The question for anything now is: Does it have a Druid that can turn into an Owlbear?

  • Screw things up and deal with the aftermath. It seems that they have come across the right treatment here; emphasis on fun, camaraderie and not taking things too seriously.
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