‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Movie: What To Expect Of Game Turn Film Epic Starring Chris Pine

One of the astir fashionable franchises of all-time is coming to the large surface successful March. Dungeons & Dragons is the taxable of a marque caller movie from Paramount Pictures that volition surely beryllium a deed for fans of the tabletop game, which has been a massively fashionable Role Playing Game (RPG) since it was archetypal released successful 1974. HollywoodLife has got each the details about Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves that you request to cognize earlier the movie drops.

Everything You Need To Know About The Upcoming ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Movie

The new Dungeons & Dragons film volition travel a thief and his unit of adventure-seekers, arsenic they effort to retrieve a mislaid relic, but of course, occupation ensues on the way, and they tally into immoderate little than desirable characters, according to the film’s statement connected IMDb.

While Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves may service arsenic the instauration for caller fans into the long-running game, it really has a astir 50-year history. While determination were akin games that came earlier it, Dungeons & Dragons (or DnD) was primitively designed by Gary Gyax and Dave Arneson. The brace were inspired by akin games but besides elements of mythology, pulp fiction, and phantasy like The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Chris Pine is the starring antheral for the caller ‘DnD’ film. (Shutterstock)

The archetypal crippled was an contiguous hit, and it’s since gone connected to person galore antithetic editions of the RPG released, with the astir caller dropping successful 2014. The crippled has garnered respect among gamers and phantasy fans, earning a spot successful some the National Toy Hall of Fame and Science Fiction Hall Of Fame.

The crippled has spawned galore antithetic pieces of media with archetypal tabletop games serving arsenic the inspiration, including books, TV series, and adjacent movies. The crippled itself has besides popped up successful antithetic places, similar the deed TV show Stranger Things. Honor Among Thieves will beryllium the 4th large Dungeons & Dragons film adaptation of the RPG, with the archetypal movie coming retired successful 2000. The archetypal movie had 2 sequels: Wrath of the Dragon God in 2005 and The Book of Vile Darkness in 2012.

Along with shows like Stranger Things bringing the crippled into the mainstream, it’s expected that the caller movie whitethorn bring successful a swath of caller fans.

Michelle Rodriguez is besides the prima arsenic a subordinate of the team. (Shutterstock)

Cast & Crew

The new Dungeons & Dragons movie features an A-list formed of stars to bring the fashionable crippled to life. The movie’s starring antheral volition be Chris Pine, playing the fast-talking thief Edgin, a bard. He stars alongside Michelle Rodriguez, who plays his beardown and cunning pal Holga, a barbarian. The set of thieves that the duo squad up with besides see tons of stars, like Regé-Jean Page as Xenk (a paladin), Justice Smith as Simon (a sorcerer), Sophia Lillis as Doric (a druid), and Hugh Grant as Forge (another thief). They’ll squad up to look disconnected against the Red Wizard of Thay, who is played by Daisy Head. Jason Wong was besides announced arsenic the undead warrior Dralas.

The new Dungeons & Dragons movie was adapted from a communicative by Chris McKay, with the screenplay being written by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. The 2 besides served arsenic the film’s directors. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley person written a just stock of deed films together, like Spider-Man: Homecoming. The 2 person dabbled successful some drama and drama, moving connected hits like Bones and Horrible Bosses. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley have besides dabbled successful directing together, with them moving connected the film Game Night, per IMDb.

Rege-Jean Page stars arsenic a Paladin. (Shutterstock)

With the movie being successful improvement for immoderate time, determination person been immoderate changes. For example, earlier Chris Pine was revealed to beryllium the starring man, it was reported that Ansel Elgort was successful talks to prima erstwhile manager Robert Letterman was attached, per Variety. The filmmakers has besides not revealed each the details astir their cast. Chloe Coleman was revealed to beryllium starring successful the caller movie successful April 2021, per Deadline. The directors besides revealed that formed members from the popular DnD web series Critical Role would person cameos successful a sheet astatine San Diego Comic-Con successful July 2022, via Gizmodo. 

Plot & Storyline

The caller movie volition absorption connected Edgin (Pine) and Holga (Rodriguez) assembling a caller squad aft they flight from situation for theft. While it primitively focused connected stealing backmost a mislaid relic, the squad volition besides look disconnected against “the top evil the satellite has ever known” arsenic helium revealed successful the trailer played during the 2023 Super Bowl.

Goldstein and Daley teamed up to constitute the screenplay and direct. (Shutterstock)

The first authoritative trailer dropped connected July 21, 2022 astatine San Diego Comic-Con, and successful a voiceover, Chris could beryllium heard saying, “We helped the incorrect idiosyncratic bargain the incorrect thing.” It besides featured clips of himself and Rodriguez recruiting their squad members and facing disconnected with knights, armies, and different mythical creatures (like dragons).

It’s not wide if the crippled from the caller movie volition tie-in to immoderate of the past DnD films and what elements from the crippled volition beryllium included, but galore of the characters stock titles with antithetic types of characters that players tin usage successful the role-playing game.

Production History & Release Details

The latest iteration of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise had been successful improvement arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2013. Like truthful galore different movies, accumulation was delayed owed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Original merchandise dates for the movie were moved astir to accommodate merchandise dates successful the Mission: Impossible franchise, via Deadline. The movie started filming successful May 2021. Jonathan Goldstein revealed that they’d begun by tweeting retired a photograph of a slate. John Francis Daley revealed that they’d finished filming that August. “Wrapped D&D today! Still alive!” helium tweeted.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will deed theaters connected March 31, 2023. The movie underwent moves from November 2021 to May 2022, to yet landing connected the March merchandise date. Ahead of the theatrical release, the movie volition premiere astatine the SXSW Film Fest earlier successful March and volition beryllium disposable successful theaters astatine the extremity of the month.

Fan Theories

Hugh Grant’s quality has sparked a large instrumentality theory. (Paramount Pictures/Youtube)

With arsenic large of a franchise as DnD, tons of fans person been speculating astir what could hap successful the caller movie since it was announced. Tons of fans, crippled and movie experts person shared ideas astir however the movie plays into the larger franchise and the past movies connected societal media.

Since accusation astir the film’s characters has been released, 1 of the galore characters that radical person zeroed successful connected is Forge Fitzwilliam (played by Hugh Grant). It’s been revealed that he’s the Lord of Neverwinter, but that conflicts with the established canon that a quality named Dagult Neverember is the Lord of Neverwinter, per Polygon. Given the conflicts, there’s been immoderate speculation that Dagult volition play a portion successful the movie astatine different time, perchance arsenic a villain, oregon that the 2 characters are 1 successful the same.

One of the biggest cameos that longtime fans of the crippled are hoping to spot is the quality Drizzt Do’Urden, according to Screen Rant. The character’s origins successful the realm of the Underdark, wherever trailers for the caller movie look to pave the mode for him to marque an quality in Honor Among Thieves or aboriginal installments successful the franchise. The quality of the dragon Themberchaud besides hints that the leader could marque an appearance. This could pave the mode for a quality to look successful much movies successful the series.

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