WTF Occurred to Dungeons & Dragons (2000 )?

Following year, Paramount Photo is mosting likely to transform and also attempt Dungeons & & Dragons(* )right into the following significant dream franchise business. Dungeons & & Dragons: Honor Amongst Burglars has it all– a big spending plan, an actors of celebrities (consisting of Chris Pine) and also individuals behind the scenes that take it seriously. It’s an unlike the very first, tragic effort to transform the well-known RPG video game right into a franchise business, 2000’s mainly failed to remember Dungeons & & Dragons

, which starred a views eating Jeremy Irons as a wicked mage. The actors mainly included young stars, consisting of Justin Whalin, Marlon Wayans and also Thora Birch. Created by New Line Movie Theater, it was significantly in the blood vessel of their Temporal Kombat flicks, and also followers of the renowned video game, that were myriad, were not pleased. The flick just made a pitiful $33 million, and also the only follow-up it generated was a produced television follow up failed to remember by time.

So what failed? In this episode of WTF Occurred to this Film, we explore the RPG’s beginnings, the buzz bordering it, and also the selection of Courtney Solomon to guide what every person, I thought, wished would certainly introduce a franchise business. We likewise look back at just how this was a various time for dream movies, with New Line’s very own Lord of the Rings trilogy (which started just a year after this came out) revealing every person just how rewarding a movie based on a dream residential property might be– if done. This, was definitively refrained right. This episode of WTF Occurred to this Film is created and also told by Dave Davis, modified by Paul Podeyn and also generated by Ben Cantler. Is Dungeons & & Dragons