So I have this idea for a Dungeons and Dragons movie.

somethingdnd:

theboomsprockets:

What you do is you basically film two movies and edit them together into one movie.

The first movie is your typical fantasy movie.  A-list actors, CGI set-pieces, lots of action with the occasional bit of comedy, the works.

The second movie, however, is more of an indie film starring a bunch of undiscovered actors who are all playing Dungeons and Dragons one evening.

I think you get the gimmick – the indie segment is “real life” while the fantasy segment is the game they’re playing the way they imagine it, with frequent cuts between the two.  As you can guess, this opens the door to a LOT of meta commentary and humor.  Like, a real-life disagreement between two players would bleed into the fantasy and their characters would nearly kill each other.  Stuff like that.

If the director were a particularly cheeky asshole, he wouldn’t even tell the actors they were in the same movie at first.  He would film the two “universes” separately, the A-list actors and the Indie unknowns not knowing about each other until shooting was done.  That way, the performances of both groups would be totally sincere.

I dunno, just a random idea I had and I think it would be really cool if someone did something like this someday.

I’d watch this movie