Been in the dungeon, done that dragon
'Dungeons and Dragons' is entertaining enough, but a sad testament to the movie business' laziness, writes Tymon Smith
09 April 2023 - 00:00
The struggle to turn what’s undeniably some potentially profitable IP — the vast, imaginative canvas of the 1980s megahit, role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons — into box office gold has been long and mostly unsuccessful. There was a 2000 adaptation starring Jeremy Irons that bombed hard and scared off producers from believing there was a way to make movie magic from a game that mostly involved earnestly geeky teens rolling dice and fighting dragons with magic powers on paper. ..
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