Shooting Continues on New D&D Movie

[Taluntain]

Straight from the latest WoTC news:

Shooting continues in Lithuania on a new Dungeons & Dragons movie. The movie is a Warner Bros. release produced by Silver Pictures and directed by Jerry Lively. Though this latest movie project shares a villain with the previous D&D movie, it is not intended as a sequel. Representatives of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. have been working closely with the production team in an advisory capacity. Look for more information to be released soon in Dragon Magazine.

We haven't come to the third time lucky stage yet, unfortunately...

[Register]

Hey, if it is that dude with the blue lips, I won't complain. Without the makeup and Jeremy Irons, he could be a pretty awsome villian.

[Harbourboy]

This was supposedly posted on FilmForce's website last month but I won't vouch for its veracity:

A Dungeons & Dragons Sequel?
Paris Hilton may star.

June 24, 2004 - The Dungeons & Dragons film may have been a colossal failure, but producer Joel Silver still sees opportunity in the fantasy-world franchise. Dark Horizons reports that a sequel is in the planning stages, and that heiress-cum-actress Paris Hilton may have a starring role.

The news was broken by Paris herself during an appearance on 710 KCMO in Kansas. Hilton has been working for Silver on her new horror film House of Wax and impressed the producer enough that he asked her to consider Dungeons & Dragons II. Justin Whalin is also likely to reprise his character from the first film.

"Sounds like fun, I'll get dirty," Paris reportedly said about the proposed sequel. No other details about the film have been released yet.

[Taluntain]

"Sounds like fun, I'll get dirty," Paris reportedly said about the proposed sequel.

What, again?

That was too easy.

Seriously, if this is true, I'm giving up hope on the movie already. As I said, maybe third time...

[Harbourboy]

More rumours (these ones seem a bit more sensible):

South African actor Mark Dymond has been confirmed as the lead role in Dungeons and Dragons II:The Elemental Might.

Dymond, who left London on Sunday to start shooting in Lithuania, exclusively told World Movie Magazine that he is ‘very, very excited’.

This is the first big role for Mark, who has previously had roles in British comedy Blackball and Die Another Day. Unfortunately, the auditions clashed with his holiday last month and he had to forgo his Euro2004 tickets in Portugal, but after winning the role he concedes: “It was the best holiday I never had.”

Dymond will be playing the good guy in the sequel based upon the successful role-playing game. Part 2 tells the story of an evil wizard who steals a black orb that controls a sleeping black dragon. An aspiring sorceress and a decorated warrior are summoned to defend the kingdom as evil forces lay waste. It’s the classic case of good versus evil as the battle for the control of the kingdom unfolds.

Scheduled to start filming on July 26 in Vilnius, Lithuania, Zink Entertainment, a division of Joel Silver's Silver Pictures, which produced the first film, is acting as the service producer for WorldWidePictures (WWP).

Screen Daily reports that Warner Home Video has already picked up distribution for the USA and certain other territories, with world sales being handled by First Look Media.

The fantasy adventure, to be shot on high definition video, will be directed by Gerry Lively. The films original faces Justin Whalin and Zoë McKellan will resume their original roles and join Dymond in the line-up.

WWP's managing director and producer Wolfgang Esenwein cites the reason for backing the film as “the subject appeals to young and adult fantasy and role-game enthusiasts.”

[Register]

Well, good parts are that they may learn from their mistakes in the first movie.


Bad parts is Paris Hilton. Yes, notice the partS.

Okay, another bad part: Dragons. We had enough of them in the first movie, I don't want another 'get the stuff that controls powerfull Dragons and then kill the mighty wizard.'


Hope there will be some kick-ass scenes in the movie now with an experienced fighter.

Hope they will kill of the Dwarf and the Elf and insert a Gnome and a Hobgoblin. I know they can make those, they are in the first movie, in the tavern.

[Apeman]

Why not make a movie of baldur's gate, don't call it baldur's gate and put dungeons and dragons in the title. At least there is a story then.

[Aikanaro]

Urgh - by the sound of that plot...

Well, being based on D&D, I suppose it has to conform to 'D&D fantasy'. Bleh.