Taglines: Who needs heroes when you have thieves?
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie storyline. Having spent two long years in a dark and dank prison cell after a botched attempt to get his hands on a magical artefact, lute-playing bard-turned-thief Edgin Darvis decides he has had enough.
And as the once respected former member of the noble Harpers and his fierce barbarian companion Holga Kilgore assemble a motley crew of old and new friends, a dangerous mission to reunite with Edgin’s daughter Kira begins. But the busy streets of mythical Neverwinter have eyes–evil sorcerers, powerful necromancers, and legendary creatures of lore now stand in the way. Do Edgin and his misfits have what it takes to complete their quest in the perilous world of Dungeons and Dragons?
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a 2023 American fantasy heist comedy film directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Gilio from a story by Chris McKay and Gilio. Based on the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, it is set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting and has no connections to the previous film trilogy released between 2000 and 2012. The film stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, and Hugh Grant.
Production went through various phases in development since 2013, beginning with Warner Bros. Pictures after beating Hasbro and Universal Pictures in a lawsuit over the film rights to the tabletop role-playing game, before moving to Paramount Pictures, each with various writers and directors. Goldstein and Daley were the final writers/directors, using elements from the previous attempt by director Chris McKay and screenwriter Michael Gilio. Filming began in April 2021 in Iceland and later Northern Ireland.
Box Office Results
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 10, 2023, and was released in the United States on March 31, 2023, by Paramount Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics but underperformed at the box office, grossing over $208 million worldwide while falling short of its break-even point. A television series based on the original game was in development at Paramount+, with Rawson Marshall Thurber serving as an executive producer and a showrunner.
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves grossed $93.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $114.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $208.2 million. After the premiere at South by Southwest, A.A. Dowd at Chron noted that “the reaction at the Paramount Theatre last night suggests that this could be a bigger hit than plenty have predicted, if word of its canny exploitation of the Marvel model travels fast and far.”
In the United States and Canada, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was released alongside A Thousand and One and His Only Son, and was projected to $30–40 million from 3,850 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $15.3 million on its first day, which included $5.6 million in advance screenings in the week leading up to its release, with $4.1 million coming from Thursday previews.
It went on to debut to $37.2 million, topping the box office; 61% of the opening weekend audience was male and 63% was between 18 and 34 years old. The film made $14.5 million in its sophomore weekend (a drop of 61%), finishing in third. In its third weekend, the film grossed $7.5 million, a decline of 46% from the previous weekend. Kayleena Pierce-Bohen of Screen Rant called the film a “box office bomb” and said that the film’s disappointing profits were due to poor marketing of the film, tough competition with The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and the fans boycotting the companies Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro.
Outside of the US and Canada, the film grossed $33 million from 60 markets in its first weekend. In its second weekend, Honor Among Thieves grossed $15.5 million, for a drop of 45%.[120] The film earned another $13.8 million from 64 markets in its third weekend.
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Directed by: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
Starring: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant, Chloe Coleman, Jason Wong, Daisy Head, Sophia Eleni, Kenneth Collard, Appy Pratt, Laura Przybilla
Screenplay by: Michael Gilio, John Francis Daley
Production Design by: Ray Chan
Cinematography by: Barry Peterson
Film Editing by: Dan Lebental
Costume Design by: Amanda Monk, Dayna Pink
Set Decoration by: Naomi Moore, Cosmo Sarson
Art Direction by: Jennifer Bash, Susannah Brough
Music by: Lorne Balfe
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: March 31, 2023 (Wide)
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