None of these movies really have nothing to do with D&D at all save for the "character classes" and races involved. No Lore, no real D&D substance...nothing. Just stick in an elf, a dwarf, a couple humans, a dragon and slap the name D&D on it.
Give me a real D&D movie based off Neverwinter Nights or some of the other lore.
Now I will base what I say on the title of the movie.
And I assume you know your D&D.
In Greyhawk, the ORIGINAL D&D world there was this badass lich named Vecna.
And he made this tome and poured all his malice into it.
Known as The Book of Vile Darkness.
What I am guessing is that you would want someone to make a movie based on the Forgotten Realms D&D world.
Greyhawk campaign sucks... Forgotten Realms 4 life yo!
shareThe reason D&D does so well as an RPG is that it is so generic and the 'Greyhawk' background is a good base but not a deeply fleshed out world so plenty or room is given to expand easily for DM's
The Forgotten Realms have a LOT more depth to them, and a lot more literature to draw on, however in my experience thy deal with MAJOR heroes of the Realms more than the 'common man hero' that Hollywood seems to like more.
'Oh, No bother, Wasn't offering to do it myself.'
I think I was under the mistaken idea that the movie would have SOMETHING to do with the various Tome holders/seekers or, forgive my naivety, Vecna himself. I could buy the generic DnD realm,but FFS, this movie had NOTHING to do with anything other than unnecessary scenes,cliches and plot holes seemingly scripted by an ogre. Terribad production and a complete garbage attempt to snag interest in the DnD cosmology. .05/10 easily
shareI am surprised the D&D franchise isn't worthy of bigger budget movie productions. The LOTR and Harry Potter movies get big budgets and they are hugely popular, I don't think D&D would be any different if they didn't get such *beep* scripts and actors etc.
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No doubt... Requiem should be made into a feature.
You Suck...now deal with it.
My thoughts exactly. Why do they keep half-assing new fantasy worlds when there already are a bunch of fleshed out settings that they could use?
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IOHO, the studios deem many established fantasy lores too hardcore for a mass audience. They prefer a wide spectrum of bums to satisfy profit maximus.
...bar is closed people stagger out
the pretty, the crippled, and the proud.
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I haven't seen a dwarf in this movie. Nor an elf.
What I did see in this movie were paladins, holy symbols, a god that abandoned them, and the corruption of a paladin to evil. Pretty cool for a D&D movie if you ask me. The ending sucked though. Would have been brilliant with a wicker man ending.