Hollywood never did ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ justice. A new movie rolls the dice

“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” begins with actor Chris Pine begging for a second chance. His character, a lute-playing bard condemned to a tundra prison for “grand larceny and skullduggery,” stands before a clemency council, promising his jailers he’s reformed.as checkered as the protagonist’s past.

“Nobody had done [D&D] justice yet,” writer-director Jonathan Goldstein said at the SXSW premiere. “Now justice has been done.” “Studios would acquire rights to these properties and not really take enough time to get to understand them or hire the right creative talents with some appreciation of those fan bases and those mythologies,” said Shawn Robbins, chief analyst at Boxoffice Pro. “And when you’re going up against big expectations like those of these franchises, that makes it even more of an uphill battle.”

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