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Win Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves merch bundle

admin — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:31:35 +0000

To celebrate the release of Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves – which explodes into cinemas in the UK and Ireland on March 31st 2023 – we have a selection of D&D merch to give away that you’ll truly treasure, including branded hoodies, caps, water bottles, tankards and tote bags.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves follows a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a long lost relic, but their charming adventure goes dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

Co-directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (Spider-man: Homecoming), the movie stars Chris Pine (Star Trek), Michelle Rodriguez (Fast & Furious franchise), Regé-Jean Page (Bridgerton), Justice Smith (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), Sophia Lillis (I Am Not Okay with This), Chloe Coleman (Upload), Daisy Head (Shadow and Bone) and Hugh Grant (Paddington 2).

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves is released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland March 31st 2023.

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves filmmakers discuss heist movies, visual effects and Freaks And Geeks

admin — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:03 +0000

If you’re at all familiar with the TV show Freaks and Geeks, a coming-of-ager set in a 1980s high-school, you’ll know that John Francis Daley, one of the writer-directors (alongside Jonathan Goldstein) of the new live-action film, Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves,played Sam Weir, an enthusiastic D&D player. In fact, for the release of the film, he has reunited with fellow actors Samm Levine and Martin Starr in a skit that celebrates everything about the table-top RPG.

Daley was actually introduced to the game on Freaks and Geeks, telling us: “I was fourteen and immediately took a liking to it. I think Sam Weir is very much an extension of myself which is a testament to the casting of that show. Everyone was some form of the character they represent. As for me and to a certain extent, Sam Weir, I’m very proud of what we ended up accomplishing with the film.”

Sophia Lillis, who plays tiefling druid Doric, is a fan of the TV Show and an avid D&D player in real life but didn’t realise who John was exactly: “I didn’t realise he was in Freaks and Geeks until one day on set, I was like ‘you know what, John looks so familiar and I don’t know why’!”

She continues on her love of the RPG: “It was fun! It’s just a fun time hanging out with friends and making up shit. That’s basically all it is with a set of rules. But you can pretty much do anything within the rule book.”

Sophia Lillis (pictured) is a fan of RPG: “It’s just a fun time!”

The ensemble cast of the movie is made up of Lillis, Chris Pine as thief Edgin, Michelle Rodriguez as Barbarian Holga, Justice Smith, as a wizard, Regé-Jean Page and Hugh Grant (whose villainous performance is, as producer Jeremy Latcham describes it, “wickedly devious!”).

“I love his portrayal of Forge,” Latcham expands. “There’s so many layers of text, and subtext and context to play with. Hugh is truly a treasure.”

Producer Jeremy Latcham describes Hugh Grant’s performance as “wickedly devious!”

The film blends heist movie with fantasy, action and comedy, something which Daley and Goldstein are well seasoned with having worked together on Spider-Man: Homecoming and Game Night.

Goldstein explains how they approached the screenplay: “Ocean’s Eleven was a big inspiration structurally and the ‘getting the team together’ format. The comedy element and the tone overall was probably the biggest challenge. If you go too far in that direction it becomes farcical and the audience stops getting invested in the characters and their struggles.”

Director and writer Jonathan Goldstein (pictured with actor Chris Pine) cites Ocean’s Eleven as an inspiration for Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves

All good heist movies comment on social inequality and wealth distribution, something which this fantasy film does in multiple ways. “No matter where you stand on things I think that all people kind of agree people aren’t getting the best deal these days,” Latcham says. “I think it’s really fun that our band of thieves end up having good hearts and have the people in mind. The politics of the movie, no matter where you stand, everyone thinks, yeah the government’s got some issues. Everyone on both sides thinks that. The issues may be different but the outcome is the same.”

“There’s definitely a parallel with what’s going on in the world through our film,” Daley expands. “We never wanted to indoctrinate people or hit it over the head what we were trying to say but I think there’s a universality to a lot of the things our characters are dealing with and the way that Forge is taking advantage of his position.”

The filmmakers didn’t want to hit audiences over the head what we were trying to say.

Throughout the film, the characters embark on many quests, some of which end in disaster or failure. Justice Smith reflects on why failure can sometimes guide you in the right direction: “If it’s not meant for you, it means that there is something out there that is probably better and more aligned with what you should be doing or who you are. That’s what I tell myself every time I hear a no or face rejection. It’s brought me a lot of peace because I no longer pine over things or people who don’t want me. I feel like that’s out of my power.”

Daley comments on the visual aspects of the film, and the influences in that regard: “It was a lot of filmmaking influences that we tried to put together in a way that felt cohesive and not jarring. [Steven] Spielberg in terms of being able to fuse practical and visual effects in a way that you don’t necessarily know which is which. [Ray] Harryhausen, absolutely with our Stone Dragon. John Carpenter with the body horror and Sam Raimi too, to a certain extent.”

A lot of influences went into the visual effects of the movie.

“We used all the latest tools to make a movie that feels not at all sophisticated,” Latcham concludes. “Part of why people are responding to the visuals is because it feels handmade. We built 190 sets, we went to 50 different locations, we built all these giant animatronics and puppets.

“There’s a lot of Raiders [of the Lost Ark], there’s a lot of The Goonies, there’s a lot of [The] Princess Bride. They’re all visual touchstones. We really tried really hard to make something that felt old school, something that felt wonderfully practical.”

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves is released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland March 31st 2023.

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves Review: A rip-roaring and hilarious fantasy adventure

admin — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:34:50 +0000

A great cast lead the charge in co-writers and directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, a rip-roaring and hilarious fantasy adventure based on the much loved role-playing game of the same name.

The pair blend quick-witted comedy with heist movie tropes, while at the same time summoning the spirit of classic Eighties films. Though the film strikes a more irreverent tone to Stranger Things, with the focus more on humour, it references many of the same touchstones, including Steven Spielberg and John Carpenter.

Chris Pine stars as Edgin, a devoted single father to Kira (Chloe Coleman) and a disillusioned thief looking to make one last major heist before he calls it quits. When we first meet him he’s imprisoned with his close friend and barbarian Holga (Michelle Rodriguez) as they await to be pardoned for a crime. On release, they head back to Kira who has been left under the guardianship of Forge (a delightfully villainous Hugh Grant) and are forced back into crime in order to save the day. They team up with wizard Simon (Justice Smith) and tiefling druid Doric (Sophia Lillis) to find an ancient relic, with Regé-Jean Page’s comically verbose and deeply sincere Xenk helping them on their shambolic quest.

Even if the film runs a little long, the action never lets up. The combination of practical effects and CGI by ILM alongside frenetic camerawork also lends the film a visual edge that recalls Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead 2 and the work of Ray Harryhausen.

Pine and Rodriguez share great chemistry as life-long chums and there’s so much fun to be had in watching the ragtag team blunder and fail their way through ill-thought-out schemes. The screenplay doesn’t skimp on character building, blends genres in surprising and subversive ways, and also gives its incredible ensemble cast plenty of room to show off their comedy and action chops. It’s a whole lotta fun!

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves will be released in UK cinemas on 31 March 2023. Read more reviews at SciFiNow.

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves gets an action-packed second trailer

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 08:17:01 +0000

“We’re thieves, but we helped the wrong person steal the wrong thing and unleashed the greatest evil the world has ever known…”

We couldn’t help but fall for the charm of the first trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves and now the second one is here and it’s just as fun and action-packed. Plus there are more dragons!

Watch it here…

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves follows a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

Find out more about the making of the movie and its array of weird and wonderful creatures with a behind-the-scenes featurette here…

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves will be released in UK cinemas on 31 March 2023. Find more trailers at the SciFiNow YouTube channel.

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves: Chris Pine fights dragons in fun trailer

admin — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:00:46 +0000

Out next year, Chris Pine stars in a new action-packed adventure based legendary role-playing game with Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves.

Check out the trailer, it looks really fun!

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves will be released in UK cinemas on 3 April 2023. Find more trailers at the SciFiNow YouTube channel.

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