What The Dungeons & Dragons Movie Could Learn From Stranger Things
Dungeons & Dragons as a franchise has evolved beyond a pen and paper tabletop RPG and into a multimedia phenomenon, however, as Wizards of the Coast continuously seeks out a successful movie with Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, they could learn a lot from Netflix’s Stranger Things. The character-driven drama progressed its story through the popular tabletop game and became indelibly associated with the franchise when it aired. Although not directly adapted from the RPG, the show became one of the brand’s most successful emissaries, garnering a large audience and a new generation of players who now wait for what comes next.
Dungeons & Dragons, over the years, released multiple official films adapted from the original tabletop games. After three live-action movies and two animated features debuted with questionable success, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro began producing a reboot starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, and Hugh Grant. Since the film’s announcement, most of its details have been kept quiet, with little insight into the movie’s plot and whether or not it has the potential to redeem a history of disappointing releases moving forward.
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It’s hard to believe that with Stranger Things season 4 on the way at Netflix, ideas for a good D&D movie should somehow escape Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast. Hidden within the show’s success were brilliant insights into what worked about a D&D-inspired narrative and what people wanted from a tabletop experience. Unlike Stranger Things, the original films never understood the community of its players nor the imaginative worlds dreamed of behind a DM’s screen, and with the series
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