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What movie would you dearly love to see remade?
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Oh man, if a Chopping Mall remake happened and in one of the first scenes of the robots getting out of control, it kills Paul Blart, that would be the best movie ever.
I was obsessed with the box art of the chopping mall VHS box and picked it up every time in the video store cuz the robots on the back looked so cool. Based on the box alone, I think I had a few nightmares where I was hiding in a mattress store from those damn robots, not even knowing what they do. I assumed they had chainsaws and stuff when I was a kid.
I LOVED Outland as a kid. Watched it a ton of times. Love that old woman ally of his. I think Outland was the first sci-fi movie where I started to understand decompression. That dude in the elevator, yikes. What a cool High Noon-like role for Connery.
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You go back to the cartoon. Or the characters from the cartoon, that is. Set it in the 80s and play it like an 80s kids adventure movie, like Goonies, Monster Squad, or more appropriate given the "throwback" treatment, Super 8. The kids are all kind of friends, Presto (who'd have to have another name, Presto is his nickname) has been trying to get everyone to try D&D, they think it's a bunch of nerd junk. Either have them all begrudgingly try it OR do that silly carnival ride thing, but they all get transported to the world of D&D. They encounter Dungeon Master, Venger, Tiamat, Beholders, hell, even that bit from the show where they meet Lloth the Spider Queen would be awesome. We could do without Uni, I feel like it would feel like that awkward appearance of Yoshi in the Super Mario movie. Bottom line is that you keep that feeling of 80s movies about kids going on an adventure with that natural way that kids acted and spoke intact, pairing it with that great "anything can happen at any second" theme of the show. I just feel like there's a nostalgic value of D&D for alot of folks that will go completely ignore in a movie adaptation and focusing it on kids is one way to incorporate that. So why not use the ones from the cartoon?
Side note, I actually never watched the cartoon growing up and hadn't seen until a few years ago. It's still really damned good (minus Uni, but that's the case with any 80s cartoon mascot character, really). No nostalgia attached and I still really enjoy it? I'd call that a good sign.
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Yet they greenlight shit like Pixels.....
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However, I'd guess that any major studio throwing bucks at this aren't going to just want to depend on nostalgia, plus they're probably hoping for at least a trilogy if not a franchise. Playing it up 80's seems to say the game is dated and the setting has no future. I dunno. Again, _I_ like the idea, but not sure studios (or WotC) want the film to be only backwards looking.
The thing is, I'm not sure how you really could do a D&D movie, without it being about folks getting transported from the table to the world. I mean, D&D isn't a story like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, but a game about making stories. Sure, they could do the Dragonlance Saga or the Icewind Dale Trilogy, but there those are stories from novels proper like LotR and not about the game D&D.
Maybe the hope is that having the D&D license isn't valued for D&D itself, but for Dragonlance, Icewind Dale, Drizzt, etc. All of these fantasy novels would be ripe for filming.
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Those things are routinely best-sellers. I'm not a fan, but I've known tons of folks over the years that read those but don't play D&D.
I don't think D&D is the draw.
However, when I read an article on the D&D rights being settled, there was some quote as to (paraphrasing) 'bringing the world of D&D to audiences'. huh? What world? Again, D&D isn't a world, much less a story. The story of D&D is the story of d20s, mountain dews, weekend nights indoors and stained character sheets. I don't think that's what studio execs have in mind though.
If I just won the rights, I'd probably omit D&D entirely from the title and produce 'The Dark Elf Trilogy' or 'The Dragonlance Saga' each treated like adapting any other novel.
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The framing device might have a mysterious figure introducing us to the concept of a vast and varied multiverse; perhaps have him in a room with many portals showing different terrain and scenes. He says something along the lines of, "Ah, what have we here? A dark elf, and his story is one of my favorites" as the camera moves toward the portal. Each individual story in the movie might last 20-30 minutes. This would allow you to have taut, concise stories told in settings as diverse as Dark Sun, Eberron, and the Forgotten Realms. Definitely one of the stories would have to follow an already topside Drizz't, and in any sequels you could continue to tell his story and backstory a segment at a time.
I don't know, do you think that such anthologies are passe at this point?
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