Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Short description
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves follows Edgin, a charismatic thief, who teams up with a small group of mismatched adventurers to recover a lost relic holding great power. His companions include the warrior Holga, the insecure sorcerer Simon, the shapeshifting druid Doric and the proper paladin Xenk. Their plan goes badly wrong once they cross paths with the rogue Forge, and the group must find a way to set things right.
The film is a screen adaptation of the tabletop role-playing game first published in 1974, bringing its fantasy world and sense of play to the big screen. It was directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, whose previous feature was Game Night in 2018, and who also wrote the screenplay with Michael Gilio. Chris Pine leads the cast as Edgin, with Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant and Regé-Jean Page among the main players; the production credits list 72 cast members and 180 crew members.
Produced by Paramount and Entertainment One on a budget of about 150 million US dollars, the film took in roughly 205 million dollars worldwide. Audiences have rated it 7.2 out of 10 on IMDb from 272,000 votes and 7.4 out of 10 on TMDB from 4,931 votes. A critics' score of 7.4 out of 10 from 318 reviews places critical and audience assessments at a similar level. Daley and Goldstein went on to direct Mayday in 2026.
What's left behind the scenes
- The appearance of the creature played by Brian Larkin included a complex head with a face, moving claws on his hands and feet, and a tail. Given that this character had to speak a lot, a complex facial motion capture system was created at Legacy Effects.
- Director and screenwriter Jonathan M. Goldstein said that the filmmakers wanted to make a comedy, but at the same time did not want to present the source material with mockery or ridicule.
- All the spells used in the film are taken from the tabletop role-playing game "Dungeons & Dragons."
- Regé-Jean Page himself came up with the scene in which his character steps over a stone without faltering.
- Chris Pine agreed to the role of Edgin Darvis because this character is extremely atypical for the lead role in the fantasy genre, and because he once looked after his nephew while he played with friends in "Dungeons & Dragons" and saw how much enjoyment the game brought them.
- Actor Clayton Grover plays a large, bipedal, bird-like creature with a head created using animatronics, in a costume from the special effects studio Legacy Effects. Grover is a stuntman by profession, and he really liked the mechanisms he received for the role, particularly the wings, which had a wingspan of almost 4 meters when fully extended. The wings consisted of artificial feathers connected to a device under the actor's clothing. In addition, Grover walked on stilts with claws, which added almost half a meter to his height, and wore gloves with claws. The character’s face was remote-controlled and animatronic and was positioned above the actor’s head, while he could peek out between the feathers in the neck area of the costume. In the costume, the actor’s height exceeded 2 meters.
- The film was shot in the same locations where the Harry Potter films were once filmed. For example, viewers can easily recognize some of the Hogwarts rooms.
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