Morrus said: Quite possibly. But on the other hand we, here on this little D&D webforum, enjoy discussing and speculating about it. Click to expand...

Oh, heck yeah! Didn't mean to come off negative towards that portion of it!My hope is that they take Drizzt or (a young) Elminster and pull an MCU in the sense that they don't repeat the stories from the books, but use them as inspiration to tell new stories. I feel like those two characters have the biggest body of works to draw from and by extension keep the whole Realms setting in the limelight (meeting a business goal of WOTC's, as opposed to something I actually care much about), and they speak to character types that are already popular in general fantasy mainstream media.I worry that Drizzt might be too much of an Elric clone and cause confusion, though, plus the whole worry about them "accidentally" doing blackface. Elminster has less troublesome issues there.If they go Dragonlance or Ravenloft, I feel like they risk being seen as either too generic (the former) after the legacy of the Tolkien movies and the reception of the World of Warcraft movie, or too emo (the latter) which could be problematic since the Twilight movies remain the most recent big budget vampire-related thing. FR, despite being a bit generic, has enough of a kitchen sink to highlight the more "epic" things (airships, neat organizations, visiting gods and the Chosen, Underdark). It also has that slightly Star Wars-y feel by being able to feature a great deal of characters who are not "generic" fantasy races since they could go crazy with dragonborn, drow, tieflings, etc.Second favorite option would be timing the movie with an Eberron Campaign Setting release and setting the movie in Eberron. Really go hog-wild with Warforged, Shifters, and all that jazz. I'm not a big Eberron fan, but if there's one setting that screams "THIS IS WHAT MAKES D&D DIFFERENT THAN OTHER FANTASY" in the modern era, it's Eberron. Hands down. (Or maybe Planescape, but that's way too high concept to start with.)