The Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies have made
the fantasy genre cool. The characters are believable yet bigger than life.
They pull off exciting things the viewer wishes they could do themselves. They
make the viewer want to be a part of what is happening up on the screen.
D&D and RPGs can thus reap the residual reward from potential customers
looking to experience those movies for themselves. Those movies can bring new
customers and a new generation of gamers to RPGs.
And then we have the actual D&D movies. This is how
you kill any momentum the better movies have created. A non-gamer seeing the
D&D movies will think D&D is cheesy and lame. Why would they want to
become part of this world called D&D? To them it would appear as if it’s
cheap and goofy, not cool and exciting; something to be avoided, not embraced.
WotC is actually doing a disservice to the D&D brand,
and RPG games in general, with these movies. They are doing more harm than
good. They can actually drive people away from D&D, and that is the last
thing they should allow. I know they have no control over the movies, or at least
limited control, but it would actually be in their best interests to make sure
this upcoming movie does NOT happen.
The best we can hope for is that they never get a wide
release and no one ever sees them…and that is a sad statement.
3 comments:
lets hope the documentary gets kickstarted then, and people have a great movie to watch about the hobby we love.
Well, the first movie was the fault of Courtney Solomon, who bought the rights at 19 and spent 10 years trying to get it made. As his first movie.
But given the number of good D&D novels out there, they have the source material to do it right. Personally, my suggestion (that I've said many times before) is to not use the Dungeons and Dragons name. They should do a movie based on Eberron. Gamers would know this and non-gamers wouldn't associate it with the bad movies.
I have a great idea for the opening of the movie, and it would also work as a teaser trailer. It would be the Race of the Seven Winds and it would wind through Sharn from the heights to the depths. It would show that this is not your grandfather's fantasy movie.
The direct to DVD, Wrath of the Dragon God movie was actually a good D&D movie, essentially The Gamers played straight.
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