Hollywood is taking another shot at adapting Dungeons
& Dragons to the big screen, and I'm surprised it took them this long to start
to get one of the ground, even if the previous movies may have left a bad taste
in many fans mouths.
"This new Dungeons & Dragons will be a Guardians of the Galaxy-tone movie in a Tolkien-like
universe," producer Roy Lee explained. "Because when you think of all the Hobbit movies and The Lord of the Rings,
they have an earnestness to them, and to see something fun, a Raiders romp
inside that world, I feel is something the audience has not seen before."
Screenwriter David Leslie Johnson (Orphan, The Conjuring 2) has
already finished the script, and Lee believes it won't take Warner Bros. long
to approve of the project.
"I think it will really be moving forward
quickly, and I don’t anticipate it not getting greenlit this year, mostly
because Warner Bros. has DC now, and LEGO, and the Harry Potter universe
that’s being cultivated as their franchises. I believe they see Dungeons & Dragons as
something that could be cultivated as a multi-universe movie where there will
be spinoffs from the first movie being in Forgotten Realms and subsequent movies
being in different worlds."
Lee also revealed that "everyone
who’s involved with it now, especially the writer of the first draft is a fan
from the very beginning starting with Chainmail, which turned into Dungeons & Dragons, so you’ll see things that are very faithful to the source
material as well as new elements are being incorporated with help from Wizards
of the Coast, who are giving a lot of input on the script."
Finally, the New
Dungeons & Dragons movie will not feature the cheap gimmick of having game players
being magically transported inside the game, it will instead take place entirely
in the realm.
Source - Collider
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