I still love the idea of a main character dying and then having the same actor return as a different character with different personality and abilities but still very clearly the same actor and nobody says a word.
It’s not courage, it’s just people outside of DnD would have zero idea what is going on and you’d end up muddling the movie by trying to inject meme humor into it.
“Is the new guy secretly his twin?”
“It’s the same guy? But not? I’m confused.”
“Why did they reuse the same actor in the same movie? Laaaaazy!”
There are people who have jobs to know what does and what doesn’t confuse audience members, leave it to them.
Like seriously, a Reddit version of the movie would probably do the following:
Try to be a legit serious adventure that isn’t just a silly game, and is actually a real living breathing universe.
Also want it to just be a game with lots of funny references to the fact that it’s just a game.
The two different goals crate massive tonal dissonance and most audience members don’t know if they should be invested in the characters or laughing at them.
Inject a bunch of inside jokes only DnD players would know, like the peasant rail gun, and we’d probably make the jokes way too important to the plot instead of being a passing gag.
Have a bunch of whiplash as the movie swaps between a table of players and characters in the fantasy world.
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u/Lampmonster Dec 18 '22
I still love the idea of a main character dying and then having the same actor return as a different character with different personality and abilities but still very clearly the same actor and nobody says a word.