bbarsh wrote:Both films took the approach of using high level characters and or situation/events. Big mistake. Power D&D is boring D&D - as far as story-telling goes for movies. A far more compelling movie would feature novice characters 1st level that gather and hit their first adventure. Movie goers can relate to characters/heroes that have flaws, weakness and problems. Simply put, I don't need a D&D movie where the story is about saving the universe from the ultimate demon, wizard, dragon lord of infinite darkness. Give me low level adventurers against a mysterious villian or group of villians and nonlinear adventure and I am going to be interested and compelled to watch. Give me the lich dragon and I am going to be bored to tears because the end result is going to be obvious and suck.
killjoy32 wrote:so if you were given the funds to make a low budget D&D film, with possibly a follow up, what would you base it on and who would you have as characters and who would play them.....
DnDGeek wrote:Going back to the paladin idea, I'd love to see Vin Diesel do it.
NetRodent wrote:Personally I'd love see Bruce Campbell as a paladin.
beyondthebreach wrote:To make a kickass movie you need a huge budget.
beyondthebreach wrote:Q1 would be a good choice as you have a main foe in Lolth and a host of evil underlings to be combated. However, unless the setting was drastically changed, the extraplanar nature of it would cause a tremendous loss in the telling of a story as the characters would never be in the "real" world.
beyondthebreach wrote:There's Vecna and there's Iuz.
beyondthebreach wrote:And don't forget the romance! I'm not kidding here - there won't ever be a hollywood backed movie without it . . .
Marlith wrote:I think we have forgotten there is a good story and great character in a series of novels that could be adapated. What if they got permission from Gygax and made the Gord series into a movie. He starts out a low life nothing and end up an epic hero. The settings grow as the series expands so they could allocate more money to the effects, locations and scenery if the series was succesfull.
Deadlord36 wrote:Successful non-romance movie? The 13th Warrior.