‘D&D: Honor Among Thieves’ Clip Proves Necromancy Isn’t All it’s Cracked Up to Be
The dead hold many secrets that could lead to victory and untold riches. What will the Bard in this Honor Among Thieves clip get from a corpse?
We’ve seen a lot of elements taken directly from the game in the movie’s trailers. This has caused discussion about how the movie portrays the game. Some don’t think it’s serious enough, and it makes the TTRPG and those that play look dumb. We’ve had a couple of serious on-screen adaptations already, and they suck. I’m all for a movie that carries the fun of playing D&D with friends in its story. Not everything has to be dark, gritty, and dour.
That fun can be seen in this new look. In this clip, the party’s Sorcerer, Simon (Justice Smith), uses ‘Speak With the Dead’ to rouse the spirit of a soldier. Of course, it doesn’t go exactly as planned.
This differs from the last time the game took to the big screen. D&D: Honor Among Thieves looks like a LARP with a Hollywood budget – and without the scheduling conflicts. It’s serious about its monsters (ok, kind of) and adventure (very much so), but not so much when it comes to the party itself. The ridiculous situations you get during game nights are weaved in.
It also has a Marvel formula feel that folks are getting a bit tired of. We’ll see if it breaks out of that and proves it has something new to offer when it hits theaters next month.
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D&D: Honor Among Thieves Details
The cast includes Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith, Regé-Jean Page, Sophia Lillis, and Hugh Grant. Game Night‘s John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein wrote the script and directed the film.
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic. Things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves brings the rich world and playful spirit of the legendary roleplaying game to the big screen in a hilarious and action-packed adventure.
The movie has a runtime of two hours and seventeen minutes.
