One ofmy favorite trailers released at this years San Diego Comic-ConwasDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
I also love the use of Led Zeppelins Whole Lotta Love over the footage.
Id be shocked if its not a big hit when its released in theaters next year.
The film was produced byJeremy Latcham,Brian Goldner, andNick Meyer.
COLLIDER: I think that trailer looks great and it looks fun.
It has-
MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ: Without the sex.
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PINE: Without the sex.
With lusty, earnest, virgin hearts.
It’s just good, old-fashioned fun storytelling.
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Hugh, if I’m not mistaken, you could be the antagonist in this movie.
HUGH GRANT: It’s complicated, Steve.
I seem that way, but I think I’m more complicated than that.
I think there are people worse than me in this film.
As I recall, I can barely remember it, we filmed it a year ago.
But I think that’s right.
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But I’m certainly fascinating.
Are you guys agreeing with his assessment, or would you say he’s more of the antagonist?
RODRIGUEZ: I’d say it’s fairly, quite accurate.
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REGE-JEAN PAGE: Incredibly accurate.
One of the things that aDungeons & Dragonsmovie has, is what’s called dragons.
We obviously see some of that in the footage.
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PAGE: I think we can confirm multiple dragons.
SOPHIA LILLIS: Multiple dragons.
That sounds about right.
So you guys filmed this, I believe in Iceland and in Belfast, am I wrong about this?
PINE: No, there may be Iceland plates, but it was all filmed in Belfast.
Filming in Belfast, what was it like being there?
What did it add filming in that city?
RODRIGUEZ: Did you see the movieBelfast?
It was nothing like that.
PAGE: And this is what it was like.
So you’re saying-
RODRIGUEZ: They’re great locations.
Northern Ireland is beautiful.
There are some places… Also we went to some spots in England, did we not?
That were quite extraordinary.
PINE: You want to talk about that, Sophia?
You’re just dying to get on the mic, aren’t you?
PINE: No, Northern Ireland was fantastic.
It was the loudest excuse for a sound stage I’ve ever shot in my entire life.
RODRIGUEZ:: They had coal, being dumped on ships.
They’re very, very funny people.
I think the important part…
I’m just… just anyone just fucking answer.
Anyone will happily stop talking.
GRANT: Well, I tell you that was a big draw for me.
Then I read it and it was so funny, brilliantly funny, you are absolutely right.
These guys seem to be raised onMonty Pythonor something.
That was a huge attraction for me.
I haven’t seen the film, but I think it’s survived production.
Jokes don’t always survive production.
But I think in this case they have.
The clip that was played in the hall just now of the dead people, people loved it.
I heard real laughs.
That was actually Paramount paying the audience five bucks each.
To make you feel good.
Do you think that a movie like this is maybe a little… Suffice it to say that it’s way more popular than I ever imagined.
At the end of the day, this is just good old-fashioned storytelling.
It’s not reinventing the wheel and what we’re saying.
But it does it, I think, really well.
I’m going to ask some individual questions.
Can you tell me, I’m all looking right at you.
RODRIGUEZ: She’s like, “Don’t look at me.”
I believe your character is an owlbear, or did I get that wrong?
LILLIS: You’re kind of right.
I play a Tiefling Druid.
So I turn into various animals, one of them being-
RODRIGUEZ: She eats ashes.
LILLIS: That is true.
I forgot about that small tidbit.
I don’t know how to react to that.
RODRIGUEZ: I’m here to help.
LILLIS: Thank you.
But yes, I am a Tiefling Druid.
So, throughout the story, I turn into various creatures.
PAGE: I mean, chief badass over here.
PINE: These two, for sure.
RODRIGUEZ: He says that, but honestly-
PAGE: Five pounds of muscle.
I don’t think that his character took it too well when he came along.
But that’s just me personally, just what Holga got out of it.
I don’t know.
But I think you were pretty badass.
PAGE: We did a fair bit of fighting.
RODRIGUEZ: Hes not Holgas jot down at all, but she was fascinated for some reason.
I don’t know.
Maybe she saw like his prior TV shows or something.
To say, she’s a big fan.
PAGE: Hugh, how are your action scenes?
GRANT: I was asked to tone them down.
PINE: Too fuzzy, just too much of a presence on screen.
GRANT: bring a natural menace to cinema.
I actually have one last thing.
You guys were in hall H, which is the 7,000-seat room.
RODRIGUEZ: That was 7,000 seats?
It’s a ton of people.
RODRIGUEZ: Holy scheisse.
Are you thinking about anything?
Or are you like, “Fuck it, let’s just go.”
GRANT: I was horrified to watch.
Personal Michelle’s entrances, he’s doing boxing and God knows what she comes on.
I thought, “I can’t do that.
I’m in quite a bad mood.”
But I think you did the right thing.
I think you’ve struck the right note.
PINE: I think.
No, for sure.
I thought about it quite a bit.
I think it comes naturally, if you’ve chosen the film for a good reason.
Playing the game that I had no interest in at all.
I was one of the assholes that thought it was just for dorks.
It calls to mind everything that we’re asked to do as actors.
So, it requires all the powers that you have as an actor.
Okay, fine, and this thing happens.
Okay, how are we going to get through that?
So I was really quite blown away by it.
PAGE: Put that to music there.
There are the bard superpowers, right there.
PINE: Oh my God, are you still doing that?
Thank you so much.
Cannot wait to see the movie.
