Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is set to be one of the biggest adventure films next year when it premieres on March 23, The new Paramount movie takes its cues from the beloved D&D roleplaying game, which has been around for nearly 50 years. Helmed by avowed D&D enthusiasts John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein (who made 2018's Game Night together), the movie boasts a stellar cast and a campaign full of laughs.
Forget the Lawful Good characters you may have come to know in tabletop games, as Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves sees Chris Pine play a bard who leads a group of professional heist experts. They have recently stolen the wrong artifact from the wrong person and are now looking to dig their way out of their current predicament. The ensemble includes Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, and Hugh Grant
While at San Diego Comic-Con, Screen Rant spoke to the cast about their panel experience and the enthusiastic response from expectant audiences. The actors also shared what made this iteration of Dungeons & Dragons so special, who among them had logged the most hours playing the game, and what items from set they looted themselves. Watch the video above, see selected quotes below, and check back soon for the complete transcript!
It seems like you guys all had the best time making this movie. Is that accurate? What stands out to you now that you're looking back at the experience?
Michelle Rodriguez: This is the toughest crowd ever. For something like this, that has lived among the population of the Comic-Con goers for over 40 years? You're talking about a long history with Dungeons & Dragons; it's not just the movie being made now.
The fact that [we] work with two guys like Jonathan and John, who respect that world so much and have so much love for it? When I read the script, I was like, "Wait a minute, you guys actually care about what you're doing. This is attention to detail here." I just feel like there was a lot of pressure coming here, and I kind of put all my all my chips into John and Jonathan and Chris [McKay], in believing in the project and in the love that was surrounding it.
But coming here is a whole other monster, because there's no greater criticism than coming to Comic-Con with something like the IP of Dungeons & Dragons. If you're coming with Dungeons & Dragons to Comic-Con, you better be ready to be either taken down or raised up.
I'm happy that we survived. That was cool. They accepted us; nobody's criticized us yet. So I feel safe for now.
What was the biggest question you had when you were told, "We're making a D&D movie?" What was the biggest thing that you was important for you going into the film?
Hugh Grant: I did not expect to love the script when it was sent to me. But I really did - which is odd, because I am a man who hates everything. And it really made me laugh. Maybe I'm losing my judgment, but I thought it was hilarious.
And from what little I've seen in the film, all that humor seems to have survived production - which is not always the case. But this lot are all brilliant and very good at throwing away dry humor, and I feel quietly positive. It's most unlike me.
Going with the heist theme, what's the best thing you've ever heisted from the set?
Sophia Lillis: In the first draft of my character, I had teeth - like, canine teeth of sorts. That did not pass. But in the mail, a few weeks after I finished shooting, I got home and they sent me my teeth. Which I have not touched. I don't know what to do with it.
Michelle Rodriguez: Did they have traces of ash? I'm just in awe that tieflings eat ash.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Synopsis
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Check back soon for a full transcript of our Dungeons & Dragons interview, and catch our previous interviews with Chris Pine for Wonder Woman 1984, Regé-Jean Page for The Gray Man, and Sophia Lillis for Uncle Frank.
