Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Footage Reaction: Rolling The Dice [Comic-Con]

"Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" has a stellar cast able to navigate the delicate and thin line between absurdity and gravity, including Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Regé- Jean Page and Hugh Grant.

The first clip finds the party of adventurers searching for a magical helmet, apparently the MacGuffin that drives the film's plot. The group, led by Pine's bard Han Solo, enter an ancient graveyard armed with a magic spell, used by Smith's wizard persona, which allows them to raise the dead - but the walking corpse will only be able to respond. five questions before they die again, forever.

So the party grabs a shovel, picks up a grave, digs up a corpse, and brings it back to life...only for the corpse to prove less than useless, as it takes each of the characters de Pine statements as questions, returning to death without providing useful answers. Without wasting a moment (via a very funny smash cut), they dig up a second corpse and get a bit more information via a flashback to a giant battle, the one that apparently filled this graveyard. The scene (clearly unfinished) is one massive battle, where warriors fight to defend the helm from an army of cultists - and their fire-breathing dragon. Naturally, the undead warrior's story ends as soon as he is downed in battle, forcing the party to dig up another corpse to ask five more questions.

This repeats on several other undead conversations, with some zombies proving more useful than others (one slipped getting out of the tub before the battle started and proving less useful). The final corpse gives them the information they need after two questions, and Pine's character almost leaves the hapless corpse sitting upright in its coffin. After some pressure from his peers, he asks a few quick questions ("Do you like cats?") just to send him back into oblivion.

While the production footage and design has a real high fantasy feel to it, the clip focuses on what writer/directors John Frances Daley and Jonathan Goldstein do best: comedy. The escalating interrogation over the corpse and the banter between the group members suggest a fantasy adventure that won't take itself too seriously, which is fitting for a film based on a game designed for friends to gather around. the table and goof. p>