— wrote and directed the movie that has long been in development.
Fans of the table-top role-playing game will be delighted by the film’s gameplay references — from gelatinous cubes to owlbears. Goldstein and Daley are avowed fans of D&D, with Daley playing D&D onscreen as a child actor in the 90s series. “Directing a movie is essentially like running a campaign,” noted Goldstein during the post-screening Q&A.
While onstage, Pine said he had not played the game much prior to the movie but started playing with his family once he got cast as the movie’s bard. “I got to see my dad play a warrior, which is very exciting. He is 82,” he said, adding that the game is built for actors. “It’s basically improv. Something happens and you say, ‘Yeah, let’s go.'”
But the film’s biggest cheers and screams came with the dashing onscreen introduction of Page, who plays the film’s resident paladin. “Can you talk about the decision to cast beautiful men?” asked one audience member to quite possibly the biggest laughs of the night. Daley batted back: “We saw them as extensions of ourselves.”
While there was no explicit cliffhanger at the end of the film, the question of a sequel did come up during the Q&A, to which Goldstein replied, “To be able to continue this ride with these awesome people would be a dream.” (Goldstein and Daley
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