New D&D Movie set in the Forgotten Realms announced
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http://io9.com/the-dungeons-dragons-mov ... 1721969232
Hope its good.... -
Considering the quality of the previous films, my hopes are not especially high. The Forgotten Realms is not my favourite Dungeons and Dragons setting either but I have some good memories of campaigns and NwN of course, so it may not be too bad as long as the story is good. With these low expectations, I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
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Maybe they'll do the Cleric Quintet. That would make me happier than if they did something with Drizzt.
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Seconded, Echo! I liked that series.
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Drizzt is the poster boy of FR, him and Elminster.
Most likely it's going to be an "original setting" with harkening towards core SRD stuff. I don't buy the article saying FR, it'll probably be an altered one, if they go through with it. Likely one that's dumbed for the casual person to be able to follow it.
If they just made a movie with strict adherents, they'd lose a lot of potential viewers since a lot of what's being discussed/reference is lost. It's like the comic book movies of the last 15 years having a casual-friendly presentation, but with amounts of in-jokes/references that hardcore fans will catch.
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I would actually like to see the Dark Elf Trilogy on the screen.
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Hasbro is overseeing the filming process to make sure the folks at Warner Bros stays true to the source material. Warner Bros couldn't have wrested control over it without coming to some sort of agreement of respecting the canon of Forgotten Realms, at least to some degree.
My only problem with it is David Leslie Johnson. His work is so stale you could cut yourself with it
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I would actually like to see the Dark Elf Trilogy on the screen.
With the right Director and cast it can be epic.The problem with this and the reason R.A Salvator novels do not translate well to movies or animation, is that 80% of the dialog in his novels are the characters thoughts, not his actual words. And most of those thoughts are like entire paragraphs summing up what the character thought of doing in one second flat, it'd be impossible to narrate, but without all of that Dialog it'd practically be a wordless action movie.
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I would actually like to see the Dark Elf Trilogy on the screen.
With the right Director and cast it can be epic.The problem with this and the reason R.A Salvator novels do not translate well to movies or animation, is that 80% of the dialog in his novels are the characters thoughts, not his actual words. And most of those thoughts are like entire paragraphs summing up what the character thought of doing in one second flat, it'd be impossible to narrate, but without all of that Dialog it'd practically be a wordless action movie.
So far most movies I've seen lately (most not all) have had really crappy acting, or even worse, massively fourth wall breaking jokes that made no sense but to illicit the base emotions of the audience. A wordless action movie would actually be preferable to having to endure more of those.