The star-studded ensemble cast features Chris Pine as a bard, Michelle Rodriguez as a barbarian, Regé-Jean Page as a paladin, Sophia Lillis as a druid, Justice Smith as a sorcerer, and Hugh Grant as a rogue. The movie is being advertised as a big-budget live-action incarnation of a standard D&D campaign. The plot revolves around a simple enough quest with clearly defined stakes, as a band of thieves journey into a mystical realm to prevent a malevolent force from enslaving the world. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is set to be released in theaters on March 31.

RELATED: The Problem With A Dungeons And Dragons MovieĪfter all those years of inconsequential development, the long-awaited Dungeons & Dragons movie is finally here. Any screenwriter who takes on the daunting task of adapting D&D into a movie has to come up with a campaign that’s every bit as unique and compelling as the ones that fans have conjured up during their years of playing the game. Every game of D&D has a different story because the players come up with their own story. D&D isn’t like Monopoly or Candy Land where there’s a built-in (albeit thin) narrative in the gameplay. It’s a difficult game to translate to the screen because it hinges entirely on the players’ imagination. Everyone from Joe Manganiello to Dwayne Johnson to Gulliver’s Travels director Rob Letterman has been attached to turn Dungeons & Dragons into a movie at one point or another. Honor Among Thieves might have a LEGO Movie-style twist that reveals the whole film is just a D&D campaign being played in the real world.Ī movie adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons has been stuck in development hell for the past decade. It might take its meta humor a step further than merely pointing out the absurdity of fantasy tropes in the vein of a Marvel film. The Dungeons & Dragons movie might be based less on the lore of the game and more on the act of playing the game itself.

The winking comedic tone of the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves trailer suggests it’ll adapt the game more literally than it’s letting on.

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