Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is using its final trailer to put villain Hugh Grant front and center. The film, which comes to theaters on March 31, is a new attempt to bring the vibrant world of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons to life, inventing an original story and set of characters to explore its memorable setting. As the team opposing Grant's rogue, the film stars Chris Pine as a bard, Michelle Rodriguez as a barbarian, Regé-Jean Page as a paladin, Justice Smith as a sorcerer, and Sophia Lillis as a tiefling druid.
Today, Paramount Pictures unveiled the final official trailer for the film ahead of the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves release date premiere.
This trailer incorporates new footage along with praise from the film's early reviews, including one critic who hails "the most Chris Pine a Chris Pine performance has been in a long time." It also puts Grant's villain front and center, showcasing how the sardonic humor of the film undercuts the grandiose face he attempts to put on in public.
Hugh Grant's Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Villain Explained
In Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Grant is playing the original character Forge Fitzwilliam. So far, the exact nature of how his villainous antics impact the overarching plot of the fantasy epic is largely unknown. However, the fact that he is a con man who is now Lord of Neverwinter gives him a lot of power over the band of misfit heroes at the center of the film, elevating his status much higher than the typical rogue-class Dungeons & Dragons character could typically dream of.
Forge has a personal connection to this particular band, as he used to be among their number. He and Pine's character Edgin Darvis had a falling out before Edgin was sent to prison, leaving his daughter Kira (Chloe Coleman) in Forge's clutches. Edgin's primary goal will be to rescue Kira, though he may have to fight to stop the end of the world as they know it beforehand when Forge's advisor Sofina (Daisy Head) uses her powers of necromancy for her own dastardly ends.
It remains to be seen whether Sofina's magical threat to the world in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is more intense than the family conflict at the center of the film. Forge's outward charisma makes him a much more duplicitous enemy who can switch allegiance on a dime, much like Tom Hiddleston's Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With Edgin's daughter swayed over to his side, he could do a lot of damage to his former friend.
Source: Paramount Pictures
