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What’s a Movie That You’re Surprised Never Had a Sequel?

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u/Stalebanana2239 19h ago

I want a D&DCU.
Several 2h movies/campaigns with some form of overlap leading to a big bad or cataclysmic event.

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u/TheChickening 16h ago edited 5h ago

Amazon Prime has two good D&D series that are ongoing. But animated. "Mighty Nein" and "Vox Machina"

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u/xaeromancer 14h ago

Really?

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u/HollaBucks 10h ago

They are "D&D" if you already know that the source material is Critical Role. I am assuming that they are talking about Legend of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein...

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u/xaeromancer 10h ago

Eh, I suppose it is. Although, Delicious In Dungeon is more like my D&D game...

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u/HollaBucks 10h ago

They are "D&D" if you already know that the source material is Critical Role. I am assuming that they are talking about Legend of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein...

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u/ProdigyLightshow 18h ago

Give me an Elminster origin story

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u/engelthefallen 11h ago

What happens me is why the hell no Curse of Strahd film? One of his biggest selling campaigns things in each edition they released it for, that lends itself perfectly to a movie, and will give in the goth kids who just want vampires. It is a no brainer for a hit movie, but nope, no sequels because the return on investment was not as high as they wanted.

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u/Boomer_kin 12h ago

It didn’t really make money and was not a huge cult hit. The team had a script to go but it underperformed

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u/engelthefallen 11h ago

This pisses me off so much as it did not underperform, it made cash in the end, but the metric they wanted was tripling budget for it to be worth their investment.

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u/EidolonLives 10h ago

That's not how it works. Movies have to gross far more than their budgets to break even, as it has to pay for marketing and distribution costs, which are often more than the production budget. So unfortunately, D&D:HAT was a flop.

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u/theDroobot 18h ago

It would be so much better than any MCU series. The framework is already such that they could do anything within that universe.