ORIGINAL DUNGEONS & DRAGONS MOVIE STREAMING FOR FREE 25 YEARS AFTER FLOPPING IN THEATERS
A lot of Dungeons & Dragons fans may not know that the first movie adaptation of the popular role-playing board game was released in 2000. Now, the feature film is now available to stream entirely for free.
Per Variety,Dungeons & Dragons is just one of over thirty feature films that have been made available for streaming completely free on the official Warner Bros. Entertainment YouTube channel. Other available titles include beloved genre classics such as Return of the Living Dead Part II, box office bombs like the Eddie Murphy-led The Adventures of Pluto Nash, and genuinely intriguing pieces of cinema like Oh, God! starring George Burns.
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Directed by Courtney Solomon from a script written by Carroll Cartwright and Topper Lilien. Dungeons & Dragonsfeatured an ensemble cast led by Justin Whalin, Marlon Wayans, Zoe McLellan, Lee Arenberg, and Kristen Wilson in the roles of the thieves Ridley and Snails, the mage Marina, dwarf fighter Elwood, and elven ranger Norda, respectively. The film also starred the legendary Jeremy Irons in the role of the film's lead antagonist, the dreaded Mage Profion, as well as Thora Birch as the magnanimous Empress Savina.
Dungeons & Dragons followed its core cast of characters as they banded together to save the realm from the threat of Mage Profion and his malevolent Council of Mages, who seek to claim the Rod of Savrille in a bid to usurp Empress Savina's throne before she can bring true freedom to the realm. Upon its release, Dungeons & Dragons was met with widespread disappointment on the part of critics and audiences alike.
Several Dungeons & Dragons Movies Have Been Made
Over the course of its theatrical run, Dungeons & Dragons only managed to bring in $33.8 million against a budget of $45 million. Surprisingly, this didn't prevent two sequels from being made in the form of 2005's Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God and 2012's Dungeons & Dragons 3: The Book of Vile Darkness, both of which were released direct-to-video.
The latest live-action adaptation of the series, 2023's Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, was a far more successful endeavor, yet still failed to leave a major impression on critics or audiences. While Honor Among Thieves brought in over $208 million at the global box office against a budget of $150 million, this was still hardly enough for it to be considered any sort of major financial success for Paramount Pictures, Hasbro, or Entertainment One.
Fortunately, the overwhelmingly positive response to the film has been enough to secure at least a spin-off television series, even if the likelihood of a feature film follow-up seems to be getting slimmer by the day.
Dungeons & Dragons is currently available to stream for free through the official Warner Bros. Entertainment YouTube channel.
Source: Variety
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