The epic adventure "Dungeons & Dragons: Rogue Honor" is adapted from the world's best-selling board game, and the trailer immediately ignited the anticipation of game fans! At present, the film is online in Chinese mainland theaters, released in three days, the box office has exceeded 30 million, and the Douban score is as high as 7.7.
The film director invited "Game Night" John Francis Daly and Jonathan Goldstein directed.
The cast is also super gorgeous, and the main cast is strong.
Including "Superwoman" Chris Pine, "Desperate" Michelle Rodzoguez, "The Bridgeton Family: A Famous Affair" Reggie Sampeggie, "Jurassic World: Domination" Justis Smith, "It" Sophia Lilith, "Avatar: The Way of Water" Chloe Coleman, "Ghost in the Way 7" Daisy Hyde and "BJ's Single Diary" Huglen.
Dungeons & Dragons: Rogue Glory follows a charismatic thief "Bard Edkin" (Chris Pine) and four adventurers with special specialties: Holgar the Barbarian, Paladin Zankor, Warlock Simon and Druidolik, who embark on an epic robbery journey to seize a lost antiquity, but when they mess with the wrong red-robed mage, things become very dangerous...
After watching the film for the first time, Poison Jun helped everyone sort out the highlights of "Dungeons & Dragons: Rogue Glory", and everyone followed the protagonists to fight monsters together!
Point 1: Adaptation of popular board games
Dungeons & Dragons: Rogue Honor brings the worldview and fun spirit of legendary role-playing games to the big screen, and is an adventure action film that is both funny and full of thrilling action scenes.
If you don't have a concept of this board game, Netflix's Stranger Things protagonist is Dungeons & Dragons! The game has also appeared in the classic American drama The Big Bang Theory.
Highlight 2: Movie games are fun
The important point is that their real goal is to make Rogue Honor a movie with game fun, and they want to capture the fun of Dungeons & Dragons players, and they want to be so popular that even non-players can enjoy that fun.
Under the premise that many conditions need to be met, director Daley did not disappoint to pass the high score, they did not make "Rogue Glory" a fantasy epic of the "Lord of the Rings" genre, did not completely imitate the joke absurdity of "Monty Python", did not make a heavy fan-oriented adaptation, they found a very beautiful middle value.
In fact, the heroes of "Rogue Glory" cannot be attributed to only two directors, and Chris McKay, the director of "The Lego Batman Movie", has actually contributed a heart.
McKay was the original director of "Rogue Glory", but later he took over "The Battle of Tomorrow" in the middle of the preparatory period, and the itinerary accidentally conflicted with "Rogue Honor", so he had to hand over the guide tube of "Rogue Honor".
However, according to his recent interview, "Rogue Glory" still retains many of the bridges he originally participated in writing, and it can be said that McKay has long laid a good foundation for "Rogue Glory".
"The Lego Batman Movie" is undoubtedly the high standard of modern animation, making Batman an extremely superb post-deconstruction, and McKay's sensitivity to create comedy is not lost to the two directors.
Point 3: The casting was very successful
The casting of "Rogue Honor" is also as successful as "Star Raiders", in some ways, the success of "Rogue Honor" casting is that they know how to use, or "follow" the past screen image of this group of actors, in fact, this group of cast does not have much performance to break through the drama, but they play their own drama to the extreme, and the script really gives the stage for them to play.
Bards such as Chris Pine are basically similar to Captain Kirk's variant; Michelle Rodroquez's Holga is still the "Lyti" female beater tune that continues her consistent "Desperate" series; Justis Smith, who plays a warlock, maintains his slender, socially slightly awkward otaku positioning; Hughglan has mastered the most common cunning ghost he has played in recent years.
Although they play their own familiar roles, due to the careful care of these characters and the full backstory provided by "Rogue Honor", each actor can show the fullest strength in the field he is good at and show his most attractive side to the audience.
And "Rogue Honor" is very good at timing to joke about the characteristics of each character, which makes the three-dimensional character more divided and the actor's likability increases.
But the most amazing of all is Holgar of Rodroquez, who unexpectedly becomes the most tear-jerking emotional core of the film, not only a cool warrior, but also a moralistic friend, a great mother, not to mention, her brother-sister interaction with Paine is so natural and lovely.
Whether viewed from the perspective of comedy, fantasy, or game adaptation, Rogue Honor is a masterpiece full of ingenuity, it's bloody, warm enough, and most importantly, fun enough.
For a group of directors who have never directed a commercial blockbuster or even have a lot of experience in directing (they have only directed two feature films before this one), the magic scenes involving a lot of special effects in the film have a good schedule.
Although less than halfway through 2023, "Rogue Honor" has undoubtedly been qualified to rank at the forefront of this year's entertainment movies.
Highlight 4: Fantasy creatures never seen before
The following classic monsters will appear in the movie.
The Shift Beast, which resembles a cougar but has two strong tentacles, emits a halo that makes it impossible for enemies to distinguish its true body, and must use skills to find its true location.
Chest monsters can compress and twist their bodies to imitate different objects, and as long as the prey gets too close to it, they will stretch out slime tentacles to firmly grab each other and eat them.
Brain-eating monsters, also known as wisdom devouring monsters, the body is the brain, specializing in devouring other brains, the higher the intelligence of the prey, the more likely they are to attack.
The red dragon "Hibochard", it is so fat that it seems to eat all the dragons in the first dish.
I'm sure heavy gamers won't miss this blockbuster!