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 written by Goldstein, Daley andMichael Gilioand based on a story byChris McKay& Gilio.
The film was also produced byBrian Goldner, andNick Meyer.
Is that the movie?
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Is it a really fun ride?
JOHN FRANCIS DALEY: It is absolutely a ride, if rides also made you cry.
JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN: Sometimes they do.
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DALEY: There’s some of that.
GOLDSTEIN: Some rides make me cry.
DALEY: There’s some of that too.
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GOLDSTEIN: You know what?
That’s what this movie hopefully is.
JEREMY LATCHAM: To me, it all comes down to tone.
That’s what these guys do so well.
It’s damn exciting.
I’ve heard you’ve test screened the movie.
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What did you learn from those screenings where you’re in the editing room?
DALEY: We’re basically locked in terms of the edit.
I think that was like a pleasant surprise for a lot of people.
GOLDSTEIN: Especially women are loving it too.
Because it’s all about characters, it’s all about the people feeling real and relatable.
So how do you make those skills come to the fore?
How do you tell the story where they all get to kind of level up over the movie?
I saw someone on Twitter say this, and I was thinking the same thing.
Looking at the footage, it almost looks like aGuardians of the Galaxymeets D&D.
In terms of like the fun characters, is that accurate?
That was kind of the challenge withGuardianswas space movies.
Make a space movie that my grandmother can love.
GOLDSTEIN: We’ll know more when we screen it for his grandmother, it’s coming up.
So obviously anyDungeons and Dragonsmovie has dragons.
I’m very curious, are there multiple dragons?
What can you say about how many dragons are in the movie?
DALEY: I can say that there are multiple dragons in the movie.
There are depictions of these dragons that have not been seen before on screen.
I can say that I think.
If you look at any D&D cover you might see all these different dragons.
So it’s finding that balance.
There’s a lot of things that you expect it to be.
But ultimately we also had to make it our own and make it work for this movie.
Everything is different every time you stumble into a different dragon’s den.
You guys obviously settled on a title.
Was it almost something else?
Was it almostDungeons and Dragonswithout honor?
How did you decide on it?
DALEY: It was a long process deciding on that because it’s representative of this much bigger brand.
The fact thatDungeons and Dragonsisn’t just this story.
Was it almost something else?
and then no one is really that excited about it.
GOLDSTEIN: There were titles thrown out that felt more like marketing things than the spirit of the movie.
It says something about this movie in particular and not just like generic, generic.
I think it does.
I think it’s a nice title.
DALEY: It’s a very true subtitle to what the movie is about.
So I’ve been waiting for a kick-assDungeons and Dragonsmovie since I was a kid.
GOLDSTEIN: There was no pressure put on us to think in terms of a cinematic universe.
It was just about make this movie good, make this movie good, make this movie good.
Okay, now we got to make anAvengersmovie that ties it all together.
How do we do that?
Oh, my God.
The journey to that wasn’t like, we got to start planning.
It has to be that you make something great in its own merit.
So I was really adamant, let’s not be thinking ahead whenever that would come up.
If someone would say something about the future, I’d be like, it’s this.
This is the future.
This movie being good is the future.
So I’m curious, what can you say about which character classes, types?
What can you reveal about what’s in the movie?
I think we really covered as many as we possibly could without having even more characters in our ensemble.
We have a big group of people.
You got Led Zeppelin in the trailer.
A, how much did that cost?
And B, how much did that cost?
And C, was it always going to be Led Zeppelin?
Was this the dream?
What happens if they said no?
LATCHAM: That is a funny question.
We can’t tell you how much it costs because I’m not even quite sure.
I know it was very complicated, and it happened at the very last minute.
So we were definitely on a high wire without a net for a second.
I think it kind of broadens things in a way that you’re like, heck yeah.
So it was definitely a complicated process for the music department.
DALEY: Zeppelin, by the way, is so perfect forDungeons and Dragons.
Especially since Zeppelin, in its heyday, was whenDungeons and Dragonskind of came to be.
So it was a perfect combination, I think.
LATCHAM: I’m very thankful that they dove in with us on this.
It’s really cool.
You know what I mean?
I guess you were finishing shots for this trailer.
GOLDSTEIN: We were pushing very much to get these done.
I got to stop.
I’m just going to say sincerely, I really can’t wait to see the movie.
