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A Warner Brothers D&D Movie?

Started by jeff37923, May 08, 2013, 03:26:21 PM

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Sacrosanct

#15
May 14, 2013, 11:30:51 PM
After the first 3 movies, Solomon should just leave it the fuck alone.  Talk about doing more harm to the game than good.
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flyerfan1991

#16
May 15, 2013, 12:58:14 AM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;654624After the first 3 movies, Solomon should just leave it the fuck alone.  Talk about doing more harm to the game than good.

What I don't get is his idea that he needs to keep doing these damn things.  Is he that isolated by a bunch of yes-men that he doesn't see the rotten tripe his movies are?

James Gillen

#17
May 15, 2013, 01:05:06 AM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;653211They should just make it animated.

If it features Daffy Duck as a Wizard, Roadrunner and Bugs Bunny as lovable Rogues, and Elmer Fudd and Wile E. Coyote as Tinkerers, I would watch it.

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Rincewind1

#18
May 15, 2013, 01:12:36 AM
Quote from: flyerfan1991;654636What I don't get is his idea that he needs to keep doing these damn things.  Is he that isolated by a bunch of yes-men that he doesn't see the rotten tripe his movies are?

The same reason we raise in the morning.

Love.

I mean money.
Furthermore, I consider that  This is Why We Don\'t Like You thread should be closed

Benoist

#19
May 15, 2013, 01:21:10 AM
Quote from: flyerfan1991;654636What I don't get is his idea that he needs to keep doing these damn things.  Is he that isolated by a bunch of yes-men that he doesn't see the rotten tripe his movies are?

Money. It tends to slip between your fingers, and you keep searching for more.

I suspect that's what's going on with the guy.

jibbajibba

#20
May 15, 2013, 02:04:49 AM
Uwe Boll's movies are always crap but they get made due to tax write off rules in Germnay relating to cinema (or something like that). Maybe its a similar deal here.

I do like the 4 different movies each with a totlaly different style that woudl be great or a movie with the same story (can we say story in a D&D film or do we need to say emergent narative ?) seen from 4 different perspectives.

Ideally 4 kids sitting in a diner each of whom talks through the tale switching from naration to real action as we progress. the 4 kids of course also play the protagonists.

The 1e guy focuses on the minutia of the equipment and the exploration aspect, the scenery is a bit crap and the monsters are all harry harrhausen style stop go animation.
The 2e guy focuses on the emotion and all the acting is really over the top ond cliched. The secnery is still a bit shit and the monsters are actors in prosthetics who spend far too long on exposition and talking in bad german or Scotish accents
The 3e guy just focuses on how powerful the PCs are espcially his guy. It's all really competative and characters actually say things like 'Did you see how I combined that backflip with my Death ray to smoke that Zombie'... the Effects are all reasonable CGI
The 4e guy just focuses on combat there is no dialogue at all its all filmed like the dream sequences in Sucker Punch. The effects are huge but you get no sense of character or anything else and the entire description focuses on the fight with the final boss at the end.

Now it might really only appeal to gamers but it would be a lot of fun to watch.
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#21
May 15, 2013, 04:16:10 AM
Quote from: flyerfan1991;654636What I don't get is his idea that he needs to keep doing these damn things.  Is he that isolated by a bunch of yes-men that he doesn't see the rotten tripe his movies are?

The guy clearly has no talent. What he does have, however, is the licensing rights to a valuable property.

The former means he can't just move on to a new project. The latter is exploitable.

Quote from: Benoist;654620Well. Hasbro is suing Warner Bros/Sweetpea Entertainment to stop them from using its property.

It'll be interesting to see how that resolves.
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ggroy

#22
May 15, 2013, 10:00:56 AM
Quote from: jibbajibba;654649Uwe Boll's movies are always crap but they get made due to tax write off rules in Germnay relating to cinema (or something like that).

That particular German tax loophole was allegedly closed many years ago.

http://www.atlantic-times.com/archive_detail.php?recordID=414
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/news/article_1064327.php/Germany_closes_tax_loophole_for_Hollywood
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_hollywood_economist/2005/11/hollywoods_big_loss.html

jibbajibba

#23
May 15, 2013, 10:03:57 AM
Quote from: ggroy;654716That particular German tax loophole was allegedly closed many years ago.

http://www.atlantic-times.com/archive_detail.php?recordID=414
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/news/article_1064327.php/Germany_closes_tax_loophole_for_Hollywood

And yet he still got to make Dungeon Seige aka In the name of the King 1 and 2 !!!!

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#24
May 15, 2013, 10:11:55 AM
Quote from: jibbajibba;654718And yet he still got to make Dungeon Seige aka In the name of the King 1 and 2 !!!!

Mine gott!

He probably found another loophole somewhere else.

ggroy

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May 15, 2013, 10:18:13 AM Last Edit: May 15, 2013, 10:22:02 AM by ggroy

ggroy

#26
May 15, 2013, 10:27:29 AM Last Edit: May 15, 2013, 10:30:55 AM by ggroy
Quote from: Benoist;654620Well. Hasbro is suing Warner Bros/Sweetpea Entertainment to stop them from using its property.

(From the linked article).

QuoteThe complaint filed in California federal court goes onto say that an amendment to the 1994 contract provided that Sequel Rights would "revert on a rolling basis... on the earlier of (i) five (5) years from of (sic) the initial U.S. release or (ii) seven (7) years from final director's cut of the immediately prior picture."

Another provision dealt with the reversion of television rights to the project. Sweatpea produced two TV films including Wrath of the Dragon God for the SyFi Channel in 2005 and The Book of Vile Darkness last year.

It sounds like Solomon's company producing these sequels, were to possibly restart the 5-year (or 7-year) clocks.  Sounds like a way of hanging on to the D&D movie rights indefinitely?

jeff37923

#27
May 15, 2013, 02:25:44 PM
Wrath of the Dragon God wasn't that bad for a B-movie.
"Meh."

James Gillen

#28
May 16, 2013, 01:08:05 AM
Quote from: Benoist;654643Money. It tends to slip between your fingers, and you keep searching for more.

I suspect that's what's going on with the guy.

Both Hollywood and the "defense" industry demonstrate that some people with tons of money will hand you lots of that money for contract work even if your resume indicates you don't know what the hell you're doing.

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ggroy

#29
May 16, 2013, 10:50:06 AM
I decided to watch the first two D&D movies last night.  (Haven't watched them in years).

They were rather mediocre when it came to execution.  Found myself falling asleep a few times, ever after drinking two cups of coffee.

They sort of remind me of the type of "shovelware" movies that garbage studios/companies regularly pump out, like The Asylum, Echo Bridge, etc ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asylum
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