Hugh Grant to play charmingly befuddled villain in Dungeons & Dragons movie

Hugh Grant joins Chris Pine, Regé-Jean Page, Michelle Rodriguez and others in a new Dungeons & Dragons movie, playing the bad guy.

Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast continue to cast their Dungeons & Dragons, based on the popular medieval-style role-playing game. We already know that Chris Pine is on board, as are Bridgerton breakout star Regé-Jean Page and Fast & Furious veteran Michelle Rodriguez. Now, Deadline reports that Hugh Grant has been cast in the role of the villain, Forge Fletcher.

Is that name great or dumb? I can’t decide, feel free to help me in the comments.

Grant has had a long career playing lots of different sorts of parts — he starred opposite Nicole Kidman last year in the thriller miniseries The Undoing on HBO, for instance — but to some he’ll always be the tongue-tied romantic lead from movies like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually. Whoever he plays in Dungeons & Dragons — evil wizard, despotic king, etc — I’m expecting him to come out the other end having learned that love, actually, is all that matters.

Either that, or I’d like to see try and out-ham Jeremy Irons, who played the villainous Mage Profion in the infamously bad 2000 Dungeons & Dragons movie, but he’d have to get up pretty early in the morning to do that:

The bar has been set, Hugh. Let’s see you jump it.

The Dungeons & Dragons movie arrives in theaters on May 27, 2022.

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