The fantasy world of “Dungeons & Dragons” got here to a wet London’s Leicester Square on Thursday as actors Chris Pine, Rege-Jean Page and Michelle Rodriguez premiered their new movie imagining of the favored role-playing recreation.
“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” hits cinemas from subsequent week hoping to entice a brand new era of followers with the sport which first got here out in 1974.
In the movie, Pine’s character Edgin brings collectively a band of adventurers for a mission to retrieve a robust relic.
“I didn’t really know anything about it but my nephew is… a D&D player…I watched he and his pals play and was really blown over by how much joy there was in it and how much improvisation, it was just like an imagination gym basically,” Pine informed Reuters on the crimson carpet.
“Hopefully what people get out of our film is that it’s a fun world with interesting characters that requires creativity and imagination and it’s just a wonderful way to spend time.”
Packed with hanging visible results and gorgeous backdrops, the movie is not only for followers of the sport, its administrators Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley say.
“There’s so much in this game, there’s so much potential that the movie just really skims the surface of all the potential,” Goldstein stated.
“You don’t have to be a fan of the game to enjoy this movie. It really just taps into that spirit (of creativity and imagination) that’s so great about it,” Daley added.
Rodriguez, who performs Holga, used to play the sport herself.
“When (directors) John and Jonathan introduced me to the script, it all came back to me,” she stated.
“It made me understand why (Dungeons & Dragons) has been around for 50 years.”
Page, who performs Xenk, stated he performed his first Dungeons & Dragons recreation simply earlier than beginning filming.
“I wasn’t a player but I had actually watched people play Dungeons & Dragons, which is quite possibly even more involved,” he stated.
“And so I had a little bit of familiarity with the world but my first game was with this cast.”
The Paramount Pictures movie additionally stars Hugh Grant, Justice Smith, Daisy Head and Sophia Lillis.
