Knights & Knaves Alehouse

The author used to live down the street from me.

Bought cubscout popcorn from my boy every year.

He owned a delorean and would bring it to our elementary school fall carnival.

By the time I finally thought to invite him to play D&D with us I guess he had already had the rights to the movie bought, took it to the bank and moved on!

I've got a feeling the only S1 reference will be the spraypainted "Green Devil Face" on the side of one of the characters' vehicles in the movie.

Probably the totality of AD&D references.

I love the music.

Based on what i know of the novel, isn't this story supposed to be about an alien invasion, but one where some of the adults that SEE it, recognize the space ships as ones in computer/arcade games they used to play as a kid, so THEY become the world's saviors??

garhkal wrote:Based on what i know of the novel, isn't this story supposed to be about an alien invasion, but one where some of the adults that SEE it, recognize the space ships as ones in computer/arcade games they used to play as a kid, so THEY become the world's saviors??

Uh, no. It's nothing like that at all.

garhkal wrote:Based on what i know of the novel, isn't this story supposed to be about an alien invasion, but one where some of the adults that SEE it, recognize the space ships as ones in computer/arcade games they used to play as a kid, so THEY become the world's saviors??

I think you're confusing Cline's Ready Player One with his second novel, Armada. Both are laden with pop culture references that anyone between the ages of 45 and 65 (with a few outliers on either end) should get. RPO got rave reviews. Armada has been more mixed because critics agree it's, basically, the same trick: slightly different window dressing but essentiall the same story.

Based on having read RPO a few months back and what I've heard of the production, this movie is already taking significant liberties with Cline's idea in order to make it a Spielberg Special: overworked, overwrought "summer blockbuster" that's a mix of theme park ride and video game. Not bad for what iti is but, for those of us who share Cline's interests and vocabulary, I'm not optimistic that this will be any better an adaptation than Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.

I think he's confusing it with an Adam Sandler movie that came out a few years ago

EOTB wrote:I think he's confusing it with an Adam Sandler movie that came out a few years ago

That is also possible. It wouldn't be the first time I misunderstood a forum comment and provided a completely irrelevant response.
Chalk it up to 4 hours of sleep in the last week.

The book relied heavily on the pop culture references and I'm pretty disappointed at how few I see in the preview. I hope that's not an indication that they had to change all that stuff because the licensing was too hard or whatever.

Flambeaux wrote:It wouldn't be the first time I misunderstood a forum comment and provided a completely irrelevant response.
Chalk it up to 4 hours of sleep in the last week.

I just want to point out that Flambeaux is not a Bobjester sockpuppet. If you'd said "I always misunderstand forum comments and provide completely irrelevant response." then you might be a Bobjester sockpuppet.

Almost back on-topic: That may be the only thing I take away from this thread so far, but I'll watch the trailer later and see where that leads me...

DungeonDork wrote:The book relied heavily on the pop culture references and I'm pretty disappointed at how few I see in the preview. I hope that's not an indication that they had to change all that stuff because the licensing was too hard or whatever.

Warner will leverage their properties or associated properties in the movie so while you're going to see <$THINGS_IN_THE_TRAILER> properties, you won't conversely see any Marvel superheroes or the like which is why I think the whole D&D element will be sliced out and reduced to the "Devil face" spraypainted on the side of a character's van and that's it.

thedungeondelver wrote:

DungeonDork wrote:The book relied heavily on the pop culture references and I'm pretty disappointed at how few I see in the preview. I hope that's not an indication that they had to change all that stuff because the licensing was too hard or whatever.

Warner will leverage their properties or associated properties in the movie so while you're going to see <$THINGS_IN_THE_TRAILER> properties, you won't conversely see any Marvel superheroes or the like which is why I think the whole D&D element will be sliced out and reduced to the "Devil face" spraypainted on the side of a character's van and that's it.

But doesn't Warner Bros currently hold the film-license rights for D&D?

T. Foster wrote:

thedungeondelver wrote:

DungeonDork wrote:The book relied heavily on the pop culture references and I'm pretty disappointed at how few I see in the preview. I hope that's not an indication that they had to change all that stuff because the licensing was too hard or whatever.

Warner will leverage their properties or associated properties in the movie so while you're going to see <$THINGS_IN_THE_TRAILER> properties, you won't conversely see any Marvel superheroes or the like which is why I think the whole D&D element will be sliced out and reduced to the "Devil face" spraypainted on the side of a character's van and that's it.

But doesn't Warner Bros currently hold the film-license rights for D&D?

No, believe it or not, Courtney Solomon does. Yes, that Courtney Solomon. He's sitting on "directorial rights" to D&D in film and has said if he doesn't get to make the new D&D film, nobody will.

At least that's my understanding along with some rumor and conjecture.

I'm hoping the movie hugs close to the book, as Fight Club did.