The Dungeons and Dragons Movie Director Has the Perfect Origin Story

Anyone skeptical that there’s a new Dungeons and Dragons film popping out is totally warranted. To date, Hollywood hasn’t achieved the long-lasting franchise the justice it deserves. Not by a protracted shot. But at San Diego Comic-Con, one of many new movie’s co-directors revealed a connection to the franchise that’s not simply distinctive, it’s inspiring.

That film is known as Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and it’s directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. You can see the primary trailer right here however, for those who don’t know these names, they’re the blokes who wrote Spider-Man Homecoming and directed the immensely underrated comedy, Game Night. Daley additionally acquired his begin as an actor when he performed the character Sam Weir on the additionally underrated, however vastly influential present, Freaks and Geeks. And it was that present that Daley credit for getting him into Dungeons and Dragons.

“I’ve been an avid player since I was 14 years old and I was an actor on the show Freaks and Geeks,” Daley mentioned in Hall H at Comic-Con, to a lot applause. “My character was a geek and he was a huge fan of Dungeons and Dragons. I had known peripherally about it so I decided, being the young method actor that I was, to play a campaign with the fellow cast members and immediately I fell in love with the world.”

So, sure. John Francis Daley grew to become a D&D fan due to his time making Freaks and Geeks. Which is solely the best, and but another excuse why that present was merely approach earlier than its time.

“Because, as you guys know, anyone who plays Dungeons and Dragons, it is not just a game,” he continued.. “It is really the feeling you get when you play the game and that really is what we tried to do here with this film. That sense of camaraderie, family, coming together as a group, facing obstacles [where] you don’t know what to expect. So many things that, much to the chagrin of the DM [Dungeon Master], doesn’t know what’s going to happen. So that is what we wanted to capture. And, of course, that very unique brand of humor that I think sets us apart from anything else in the fantasy space.”

Which is a daring assertion, contemplating prequels reveals from Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones should not simply coming quickly, however will each be launched earlier than Dungeons and Dragons and each have huge panels at San Diego Comic-Con. Alas, what these movies don’t have is an precise, filmed documentation of the administrators turning into followers of the franchise, which Freaks and Geeks now’s for D&D.

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will probably be launched March 3, 2023.

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