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D&D movie is a cross between Game of Thrones and The Princess Bride

By Dan Selcke

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 09: Chris Pine attends Amazon Studios' "All The Old Knives" Los Angeles Special Screening at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills on March 09, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 09: Chris Pine attends Amazon Studios' "All The Old Knives" Los Angeles Special Screening at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills on March 09, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images) /
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Hollywood has tried to make movies out of the popular fantasy roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons before. It didn’t go well, but with the game experiencing a resurgence in interest, now seems like a good time for another swing.

Stepping up to the plate are writer-directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who appropriately enough helmed the movie Game Night. The cast is pretty good too: it includes Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Bridgerton breakout star Regé-Jean Page.

But what kind of movie is it, exactly? To hear Pine tell it, we’re in action-comedy territory.

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“We had a hell of a fun time making it,” Pine told Collider. “There was a lot of laughs. The way that I’ve been describing it, it’s like Game of Thrones mixed with a little Princess Bride, just a smidge of Holy Grail; it’s somewhere in that ballpark. It’s a lot of fun. It’s got a lot of thrills. It’s poppy, it’s ’80s heartfelt, there’s a bit of Goonies in there.”

"My character, he’s the ultimate party planner. I think it’s going to be really good. I mean, who f***ing knows, but I think we got a good shot and John and John are killer guys. They know comedy and they know heart and we had a great cast and we had a good time making it. And that’s all you can ask for."

Between House of the Dragon, The Wheel of Time, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, there’s a lot of fantasy either out there or on the way that takes a serious approach to the materials, so sure, why not lighten things up a bit? Anyone who’s ever played Dungeons & Dragons knows that things tend to get a little goofy.

Pine’s description kind of reminds me of Vox Machina, Amazon’s animated D&D-adjacent show. There are worse ideas than a live-action big screen version of that.

The Dungeons & Dragons movie is due out on March 3, 2023.

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