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Directing duo John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein reveal the backstory behind why they exited 'The Flash.'

And hopefully, the quality of the film will come through, and people will embrace it.” Miller is currently seeking “ongoing treatment” for “complex mental health issues.” Despite all that, “The Flash” still hits theaters this June. Daley & Goldstein started work on “Honor Among Thieves” after they exited “The Flash,” a movie with many filmmakers already taking a stab at it. Those creative differences ultimately led the co-directors to exit “The Flash” entirely. The more imperfect we can make a superhero, the better, because that’s the inherent challenge: How do you give imperfection to someone that is, you know, physically perfect?” Daley & Goldstein met with Miller over dinner to discuss the project to tease out ideas before they started work on their script. John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein return to SXSW this year with “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” which kicks off the Austin-based festival today.

John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein discuss adapting the game to film.

Later, it became clear that they didn’t want to quite do the same thing as we did.” It reduces D&D to just a game and I think that there is so much that can be explored within that world. He said, “There is that stigma that you have to get over that this isn’t just for the nerds. But what hooks me in is the story and the people in it. Goldstein reveals that rather than focusing on the bad guys, they decided to center their story on good characters. [John Francis Daley](https://movieweb.com/person/john-francis-daley/) and Jonathan Goldstein have previously worked together for films such as The Incredible Burt Wonderstone in 2013 and Stuber in 2019.

Exclusive: Directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley talk us through the quest to bring Dungeons & Dragons from the game table to the silver ...

It is clear they are excited for people to see the world they have created, but when it comes to talk of a broader franchise, they take their cues from producer Jeremy Latcham, who was previously the producer on the mega franchise-founding “For that to work, we needed a sort of scaffolding and infrastructure for the movie that would be enjoyable and engaging. “When the actors arrived in Belfast, we played a several-hours-long game of D&D with them,” Goldstein says. “We got a first glimpse at his true geekdom because he very much knew the mechanics of the game,” Daley says. “The impairments help to establish a character that has room for growth,” Daley says. Neither of the directors will be drawn on the question of a potential sequel. “Not taking anything away from the visual effects, which there are a substantial amount of in this film, but for us, we think this is such a fun throwback to the adventure and fantasy films from our youth in the ‘80s and ‘90s. “The thing that is so unique to D&D is the spirit of gameplay. “I just loved the idea of a game that you essentially made up yourself,” he recalls. [Princess Bride](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-princess-bride-perfect-fantasy-movie/) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail on the broader side of things, to [The Lord of the Rings](https://www.denofgeek.com/lord-of-the-rings/),” Goldstein tells us. “That was something that we found very interesting and different from the types of fantasy films we’ve seen in the past.” The character class decides your aptitudes and your play style and is often a big clue as to what you want to get out of the game.

In 2000, another movie was released – the aptly named Dungeons & Dragons, which starred Jeremy Irons and Thora Birch – but that movie was critically mauled and ...

Do you think it will do justice to the game? Are you looking forward to the new Dungeons & Dragons movie? This isn’t the first movie to be based on the legendary board game.

Before DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES comes to AMC Theatres on March 31st, allow us to be your guide to some of the creatures that will grace the ...

The DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES characters will also be forced to participate in an arena, where they come face-to-face with a Displacer Beast. One such being is aptly referred to as a “Mimic,” which often appears in the form of a treasure chest to lure in players with the false promise of a grand reward. There were a couple different species of the highly recognizable fairy tale beasts that we could identify from the HONOR AMONG THIEVES trailer, including the Silver Dragon, which is known for its ability to spew devastating blasts of acid. Before DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES comes to AMC Theatres on Friday, March 31st, allow us to be your guide to some of the most iconic creatures that will grace the big screen – starting with one you probably could have guessed already. Therefore, there is no reason to expect any particular iconic character to appear in one of the most anticipated movies of 2023, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES. One of the most appealing aspects of the popular role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, is that the character that each participant plays as is one of their own creation.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves premieres in theaters on March 31, but Amazon Prime members can see a special early screening at select cinemas on ...

While this is not the first time the Dungeons & Dragons franchise has made it to the big screen, Honor Among Thieves seems to be taking the source material more seriously than previous attempts. You can learn more about the film in our round-up of Directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a fantasy action film set in the world of the popular tabletop RPG.

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic.

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Police will apply for arrest warrants for three scammers who allegedly forged the ID card of a victim to commit offences in many provinces.

Mr Phakin was quoted as telling police that he previously applied for a loan using his phone. On Thursday, Mr Phakin was summoned to Lat Ya police to give a statement to the Bureau of Registration Administration about the case. Police will apply for arrest warrants for three scammers who allegedly forged the ID card of a victim to commit offences in many provinces.

Now, one man from the south suburbs says he knows what is pushing the numbers higher. He caught thieves on surveillance camera pushing his car from his house.

One person is then seen running behind the car to push it into the street. Lobello tells clients to use multiple security methods - searching for new devices that aren't common on the market yet. "Sadly enough to say, I kind of already expected that to happen," Bishop said. "I just didn't think my day was going to come that day. Now, one man from the south suburbs says he knows what is pushing the numbers higher. Meanwhile, a car expert is looking for solutions.

Introducing “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” the lavish hyperkinetic popcorn fairy tale that kicked off SXSW this evening, the film's co-directors, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, told the audience that they had designed the movie ...

But the Tablet is locked up in a vault in the city, and he needs to find the Helmet of Disjunction — which can stop time — to do it. There’s an intricacy to the staging of “Honor Among Thieves” that helps balance out the roller-coaster derivativeness of the plot. Page acts with a dark-liquid-eyed savoir faire that’s delectable, and for a while he and Pine become an ace comedy team: Yendar the man too suavely heroic to crack a joke, Edgin the one who makes a joke out of everything, including Yendar’s nobility. Edgin wants to put his family back together, and if he can lay his hands on the Tablet of Reawakening, he’ll have the ability to bring his wife back to life and restore all that was lost. The film turns the table, presenting itself as an homage to all the movies that, in hindsight, can be seen as a gleam in the eye of Dungeons & Dragons; it also taps into the fantasy worlds that the game itself drew upon. “Honor Among Thieves” is built on the edifice of D&D lore, packed with totems and characters and Easter eggs that fans of the legendary role-playing game will drink in with a connoisseur’s delight.

As Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves co-director Jonathan Goldstein put it, “nobody had done [an film adaptation of the game] justice.

It debuting to $30.4M, and made over $105M domestic, and $193M worldwide. When it comes to the fantasy genre that includes Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings, Goldstein, “there’s not a lot of laughs and there’s not a lot of fun, and that’s what we hoped we did with this film.” [Paramount](https://deadline.com/tag/paramount/), eOne did as the movie received a rock-concert reception on the opening night of [SXSW](https://deadline.com/tag/sxsw/).

The first reactions to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves are in and while it's not all perfect, the reactions are generally quite glowing.

[pic.twitter.com/UAwJ8qvMvX] [March 11, 2023] [prev](#9) [next](#11) A film full of soul and heart. Great action, VFX, really funny & a big heart! But it’s quite funny and once it hits its dragon set piece and especially the third act, it’s a BLAST!— kevin l. [#DungeonsandDragons]: HONOR AMONG THIEVES captures the chaotic fun of a campaign with friends. Colorful characters, seriously great action direction, and imagination out the wazoo… DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES (2023): The wonderful thing about roleplaying with friends is that it is both deeply silly and deathly serious. I could never recap the plot on the fly but it wholeheartedly embraces its weird fantasy/comedy tone. The movie has a lot of that energy, which is a blessing and a curse. It does bode well, however, that Paramount is screening the movie fairly far in advance of its actual release and giving people the opportunity to offer their impressions. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves also appears to leverage its star studded cast in a strong way, emphasizing a high degree of chemistry from everyone involved. While some questioned the tone of the film from the trailers, there was already some optimism backing the film and it seems like it is paying off.

Chris Pine and Regé-Jean Page rule in a movie that turns fantasy-culture derivativeness into its own form of fun.

But the Tablet is locked up in a vault in the city, and he needs to find the Helmet of Disjunction — which can stop time — to do it. There’s an intricacy to the staging of “Honor Among Thieves” that helps balance out the roller-coaster derivativeness of the plot. Page acts with a dark-liquid-eyed savoir faire that’s delectable, and for a while he and Pine become an ace comedy team: Yendar the man too suavely heroic to crack a joke, Edgin the one who makes a joke out of everything, including Yendar’s nobility. Edgin wants to put his family back together, and if he can lay his hands on the Tablet of Reawakening, he’ll have the ability to bring his wife back to life and restore all that was lost. The film turns the table, presenting itself as an homage to all the movies that, in hindsight, can be seen as a gleam in the eye of Dungeons & Dragons; it also taps into the fantasy worlds that the game itself drew upon. “Honor Among Thieves” is built on the edifice of D&D lore, packed with totems and characters and Easter eggs that fans of the legendary role-playing game will drink in with a connoisseur’s delight.

'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' launches the SXSW Film Festival and is the latest attempt to adapt the popular role playing game.

“Honor Among Thieves” aims for the broader appeal of the more family-friendly PG-13. Page plays the character with an uptight stoicism that allows him to be the straight man for a series of jokes from Pine’s Edgin, but the character felt like a nod to the players’ table. But just because they both fall under the “D&D” umbrella doesn’t mean they’re comparable — even beyond the differences inherent between a film and an animated series. There’s also not a proper dungeon, although there are caves and we do get to explore the depths of an arena. “Honor Among Thieves” is not, for instance, “Game of Thrones” serious, opting for a more family-friendly inflection. There’s plenty more, including a mighty owlbear, which is what you imagine and, yes, a tabaxi, and the human-like cat is as adorable as you’d hope. In what felt like a nod to the game and a hand-holding measure for audiences, when new items or magic are introduced, they are brought on screen with rules: here’s how it works, here’s it’s limitations. [ the game itself have enjoyed a resurgence](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-13/online-d-d-provides-relief-covid-19-pandemic), “Dungeons & Dragons” influences film and television more often than it leads. As regularly happens around the “D&D” table, all eyes turn to the mage, in this case Justice Smith’s “so-so sorcerer” Simon, leading Simon at one point to exasperatedly say that he’s tired of everyone thinking magic can cure all ills. We caught a screening of “Honor Among Thieves” ahead of of its SXSW premiere. The tone is upbeat and lively: Despite a two-hour run time, “Honor Among Thieves” feels pretty light-stepping, transitioning from quest to quest relatively quickly. The film stars Chris Pine as a part-time bard and full-time thief, and seeks to capture the often jovial-but-tense feel of a “Dungeons & Dragons” play session.

The magic of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves turns out to be the charm offensive we met along the way.

However, these are smaller inconveniences in a journey that is wholly enjoyable and which seemed to leave everyone in the SXSW audience eager to go on it again with their own guilds at home. [Bridgerton](https://www.denofgeek.com/bridgerton/)’s Page also does well as Xenk, a Paladin who I am assured by actual D&D players is the most noble and holy class of knight in the roleplaying game. It sounds macabre but in effect it comes off a lot closer to Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on First” routine, where it turns out the dead of a losing side of a battle have very limited perspectives as to what killed them. It’s to the film’s credit that Honor Among Thieves is unashamedly trying to keep the chuckles going throughout with its chubby dragons and bumbling cadavers. The scenes between Pine and Page hint at a buddy comedy that might’ve been in a different script, but even in the limited ensemble setting it’s still a highlight. At last, here is a crowdpleaser that actually pleases, and not least of all because the stakes are as small as an evening with some mates going on “a quest” by way of a 20-sided die. By echoing the type of anachronistic medieval fantasy movies actually made in the ‘80s—your Princess Brides and your Willows instead of J.R.R. But that also makes for a breath of fresh air in its own right during a moment where most blockbusters are mired by globs of CGI sludge, and many high fantasy stories, on film and television, bear the weight of war and fratricide. As with most modern blockbusters, the picture lives in a world populated by digital vistas and creatures like a fire-breathing dragon, yet there’s always a skewed twist. The Dungeons & Dragons movie, by design, eschews those flavors of bombast for something a little shaggier and a lot more winsome. If this was a D&D character sheet, there wouldn’t necessarily be a lot to like about Edgin, but as played with a twinkle in his eye by Pine that never quite breaks the fourth wall, nor ever goes for the gravitas of the Royal Shakespeare Company, there is something effortlessly disarming about this Bard who can’t seem to get anything right. [Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves](https://www.denofgeek.com/dungeons-dragons/), John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldestein’s mirthful and easygoing adaptation of the famed roleplaying game, is so charming.

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Thieves ransacked a Midtown auction house early Tuesday, swiping Hermes Birkin and Kelly bags — among the most coveted bags in the world and valued between ...

The company said the burglary took place between 3 and 4 a.m. Heritage Auctions declined to confirm the brands or models of the stolen wares. “It’s wild,” said a shocked neighbor.

Maybe not so surprisingly, given they directed the incredibly funny 'Game Night,' the directors of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves nailed it.

But thanks to “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” we now have a new question: did we enjoy a film as much as we would enjoy a recording of a ‘Dungeons & Dragons’home game with the same cast? From bright displays of magic to a host of goofy creatures, the cast and crew set out to create a fantasy world that is no interest in competing with the increasingly bland pseudo-science of the Marvel universe. Yes, his humorless brand of justice is the source of many fantastic jokes – there’s a gag about Xenk’s walk in the movie that stands heads and shoulders above the rest – but Xenk also subtly reinforces the localized stakes of the film. Do we need a wealth of backstory to understand the machinations of a thief like Forge? Locked in the “Dungeons & Dragons” equivalent of a supermax prison, the two thieves hatch a plan to escape home and reunite with Edgin’s estranged daughter. With Hollywood now turning to franchises like “The Last of Us” and “Borderlands” in the search for new audiences, it might be safe to say that video games are no longer the untapped frontier of adaptations.

Magic and mayhem reign in this epic adaptation, starring Chris Pine and Rege-Jean Page.

It is evident that he held onto these treasured memories while writing and directing the film, because there is a huge amount of heart present while navigating an expansive world filled with seemingly endless imaginative opportunities. Balfe also successfully leans into the bard lore of Pine’s character by composing songs that are light-hearted, poetic, and heavy with string instruments. Composer Lorne Balfe heightens the tension with a unique mixture of verbal chanting and rhythmic beats that properly enhance the meticulous stuntwork. While Grant plays an antagonist, his approach to evil is more cartoonish and jocular, successfully speaking to the film’s playfulness. Rodriguez is a dominant player who commands the screen with her strength, sarcasm, and sporadic moments of sweetness. The two set out on an epic journey to save Kira from the grips of a former comrade named Forge (Hugh Grant) whose greed and selfishness knows no bounds.

Chris Pine as a quippy thief? Sold. Here's what you need to know about "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves," which premiered at SXSW on Friday.

I'll never try to convince you that the filmmakers of "Honor Among Thieves" managed to bring photo-realism to this world of chubby fire-breathing lizards and gelatinous death cubes. But I just couldn't get enough of Grant, who secures the best lines of the whole script and shows up just enough to class up the joint. Rodriguez takes the barbarian role and brings the kind of tough vulnerability upon which she's built her action-star career; her deadpan is matched only by her battle prowess with a potato. Pine gets to play sarcastic and sticky-fingered, with a secret honor brimming to the surface. Sure, some of the lines might be more "cheesy popcorn" than "Dorothy Parker." Pleasingly, Edgin and Holga's relationship is one built upon platonic love — though the film can't resist a couple "Him? As we enter this world of fire-breathing beasts and dank chambers, old friends Edgin the bard (Pine) and Holga the barbarian (Rodriguez) have been imprisoned in the kind of tower that would make M.C. And there's nothing stuffy about "Honor Among Thieves." If you're prejudiced against sword and sorcery tales — believe me, I understand; they've never been my favorite — "Honor Among Thieves" begs you to reconsider. Through Edgin's, let's say, creative narration — he's a bard, after all — we learn that the duo were the unlucky among their band of thieves in the classic One Last Job Gone Wrong. You didn't NEED a polyhedral die to love the opening night film of South by Southwest Film & TV Festival 2023. The idea that fantasy fiction is the province of people in their parents' basement went out the door at least two Targaryens ago.

Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, and Hugh Grant star in an action-adventure epic based on the popular tabletop role-playing game. Review.

In a movie full of funny moments, Grant scores the most, thanks in part to his roguish smile, ripe and beguiling. It's not just that this movie faces off against a myriad of fantasy movies (some of which its source material loosely inspired), it's that Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves also faces off against the countless action sequences its players have imagined in their heads for decades. Other sequences have a rousing whimsy to them, with a transformative escape scene that has the energy of Pixar's Ratatouille. Fans of the game will thrill to see how co-writers/co-directors John Francis Daley (of Freaks and Geeks fame) and Jonathan Goldstein brought to vivid life Monster Manual creatures, like the pouncing Displacer Beast, a ferocious Owlbear, a "pudgy" but deadly Red Dragon, and even the comically dangerous Gelatinous Cube. She throws her body fully into spell casts and facial expressions that might be over-the-top in a more straight-faced fantasy. The swagger of the villain's monologue brandishes delightful showmanship. For nearly 50 years, the tabletop role-playing game has courted controversy, forged friendships, and influenced hit shows like [Stranger Things](https://mashable.com/category/stranger-things), [Gravity Falls](https://mashable.com/article/gravity-falls-disney-censorship-alex-hirsch), [Vox Machina](https://mashable.com/article/the-legend-of-vox-machina-season-2-review), and Freaks and Geeks. Dungeon Masters may vary, but Daley and Goldstein do a spectacular job of weaving in hand-to-hand combat, spell-casting, and quips. [Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves ](https://mashable.com/video/dungeons-and-dragons-movie-clip)has arrived at SXSW's Opening Night, and it's the kind of epic fun fans have been waiting for. Chris Pine headlines a star-studded cast as Edgin, a bard who — when he's not singing sweetly (often as a distraction) — is plotting a heist with his band of adventurers. Together, they must face off against self-proclaimed "con-man" Forge (Hugh Grant), a rogue who has teamed up with a menacing red wizard. [Dungeons & Dragons](https://mashable.com/article/basic-dungeons-and-dragons-character-fighter) has been a haven for fantasy lovers to explore their imaginations by bounding together into quests and battles against monsters and magical menace.