Chris Pine Set to Star in the Upcoming DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Movie

Chris Pine is set to star in Paramount Pictures and Hasbro’s upcoming live-action film adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons. The film is being directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley from a script they’ve written based on a draft by Michael Gilio.

We don’t know much about the story that the film will tell, but it was previously reported that it might focus on “a group of adventurers looking for the Eye of Vecna, a powerful artifact that dates back to the earliest days of the game. Vecna is a powerful lich turned god whose hand and eye (remnants from when Vecna was a mortal) grant unspeakable power. Both the Hand and Eye of Vecna come with a terrible cost - in order to use either artifact, the user must remove their existing eye or hand and then replace it with the artifact.”

When previously talking about the tone of the film Goldstein said:

“We want it to be fun. It's not an out and out comedy, but it is an action-fantasy movie with a lot of comedic elements and characters we hope people will really get into and enjoy watching their adventures.”

Daley went on to talk about finding a format for the film and how they never went into the project wanting to spoof D&D:

“D&D is such a unique look at the fantasy genre where it is contemporary in terms of the people playing it and the way they speak to each other. So we never wanted to spoof the genre of fantasy or take the piss out of it. But we did want to find another way into it that we hadn't necessarily seen before. Just the format of Dungeons & Dragons is so interesting and fun and all about critical thinking and thinking on your feet and figuring out ways to make things work after they fall flat. There's a lot of the spirit of that that we're trying to inject into the movie itself.”

There’s no information on who Pine will be playing in the film, but landing the actor is a big win for the project, which Paramount is hoping to launch a big franchise with. The plan is to start shooting in the first quarter of next year in Belfast.