In 2023, the film Dungeons & Dragons: Thieves’ Honor was a huge flop at the box office. However, a lot of people (critics and audiences) seem to like it. So what happened?
Each year has its share of more or less unfair failures at the global box office. In 2024: Furiosa: A Mad Max saga, Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1, Megalopolisor Here. In 2023: Babylon, Beau is Afraidor even Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. In 2022: Nightmare Alley, The Northman, Three thousand years waiting for you. In 2021, Matrix Resurrections, The Last Duel, The Suicide Squad. In 2020, Birds of Prey, Underwater, Ahead (but the pandemic factor must be taken into account).
The list is long, and everyone will have their say on the films that deserved or did not deserve to wallow in theaters, and cause the studios to lose money. But each time, it is inevitably an interesting case to study, to try to understand the ins and outs of such disasters, sometimes mind-blowing. given the amounts involved.
The movie Dungeons & Dragons: Thieves’ Honor with Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez is one of the most notable examples of recent years. After the mega-gut of the nanar Dungeons & Dragons of the 2000s, with Jeremy Irons lost in the middle of filthy dragons worthy of PlayStation 2, the Paramount studio tried to relaunch a cinema franchise with a very different formula. Unfortunately, everything did not go as planned.
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DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: THE DISHONOR OF THIEVES
The Dungeons & Dragons version 2023 was a much more expensive blockbuster, with a well-calibrated Hollywood cast, a much more uninhibited approach, and the promise of a light show clearly inspired by the cardboard of Guardians of the Galaxy. The idea was very scary. However, the film was a (very) good surprise. The critics generally liked it, and since the release, we can no longer count the number of enthusiastic messages from people about it, as soon as we talk about it again.
Issue : Dungeons & Dragons: Thieves’ Honor was a huge commercial failure. A lot of people seem to like it, yet not many people have gone to see it in the cinema. What happened? Should we just blame marketing? Why could this film, so fun and seemingly so easy to “consume”, turn into a gigantic flop? We talk about it on video.
