If, like us all here at FTN HQ, you loved Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves when it came out last year and then looked on in horror as it underperformed, never got the appreciation it deserved and then was condemned to be one and done, then I have some good news.
Star Chris Pine reckons a sequel isn’t dead in the water after all.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves features original animated series gang
Speaking recently at ACE Superhero Comic Con 2024, Pine was asked about the possibility of a sequel and his response was surprisingly heartening: “The film did fine, but it didn’t do fine enough. That was the breaks in our business. For these films to do well, you have to make a billion, which is a lot.
“I think there’s a really good chance that we’ll make another one, because I think Hasbro owns the rights to it. I think there’s a good chance, and if they could figure out a financial way to make it work, I think they’ll do it.”
It’s the curse of modern movies that even if a film makes hundreds of millions of dollars, it can still fail – this is a stumbling block that many movie franchises will have to work around, the most recent being the Ghostbusters series, with the latest installment, Frozen Empire, making a considerable amount of money but if there’s to be more, the budget will need to be cut back… it seems that D&D is the next franchise to face this; Honor Among Thieves was a tremendous amount of fun and deserves a sequel, now the studio is going to have to be more creative in how they cut the budget and still deliver a great product… and that’s no bad thing.
More D&D, anyone?
Let me know…
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Source: Popverse
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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