After a full two years of being relegated to the virtual sphere, the San Diego Comic-Con kicked off on Thursday night with all the sights, sounds, and smells it brings to the Cali coastline. Colorful costumes! Celebrities on stages that can only be glimpsed through telephoto lenses! Overpriced concessions! Haggling with booth owners! Con crud (that might be ‘rona, but who knows!)! Film writers napping under friendly tables after they’ve worked double-shifts covering the thirty-second teaser for the MTV Teen Wolf movie! God bless it, we’ve missed you, SDCC. And what better way to kick out the jams, motherfuckers, than a trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which stars Chris Pine and Rege-Jean Page. Will it be a gross overestimation of the marketplace’s appetite for fantasy tales that aren’t based on traditional narratives and that are primarily centered around in-person socialization like it was back when they somehow conned Jeremy Irons into starring a movie based on the RPG? Or will it continue the redeveloped interest in the game that kicked off after Stranger Things hit? Who knows, but don’t let the fact that you haven’t seen it yet stop you from judging.
Peep it:
Here’s a synopsis, though we’ll warn you that it kind of reads like a Wizards of the Coast summary for a paid expansion merged with your Dungeon Master’s desperate attempts to get you to pay attention on Discord so that you don’t forget your miniatures again:
“A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ brings the rich world and playful spirit of the legendary roleplaying game to the big screen in a hilarious and action-packed adventure.”
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves hits theaters on March 3, 2023. Stay tuned for more Comic-Con news as it breaks over the weekend and, more importantly, take full advantage of this rare period in history where everyone is liberated from the shackles of impending wedgies and other middle-school-grade difficulties.