Arguably the most important and most influential role-playing property of all time, Dungeons & Dragons has impressed all method of spinoffs, diversifications, homages, parodies after which some. Paramount is hoping to roll its manner into field workplace success with the approaching action-adventure Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves, with fan-favorite stars like Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, and Regé-Jean Web page as leads. However earlier than the brand new flick might even hit theaters, co-writer and co-director John Francis Daley brilliantly cemented it as one among 2023’s most necessary releases, no less than for followers of the canceled-way-too-soon cult basic TV dramedy Freaks and Geeks.
Daley starred as one of many titular geeks, Sam Weir, within the extremely beloved highschool comedy, which aired 12 of its 18 episodes earlier than NBC canceled it and unwittingly kicked off enormous careers for almost all of its younger forged. For a lot of the previous 23 years, creator Paul Feig, govt producer Judd Apatow, and the majority of the forged have been requested about reunions and revivals, with out a lot to indicate for these talks exterior of the stellar 2004 DVD field set and PaleyFest panel in 2011. However now, with an sudden heap of gratitude going in the direction of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves, we now have an precise scripted “reunion” scene from Daley and former co-stars Samm Levine and Martin Starr. Try the Twitter-shared video under and savor the bejesus out of it!
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From the primary second, the video above pays homage to the unique collection and its personal use of Dungeons & Dragons, from the music (which presumably did not contain years of haggling over rights to make use of) to the eating room set to the fast reference to “Carlos the Dwarf.” As astute viewers will bear in mind, Carlos is what James Franco’s cool child Daniel Desario named his character within the present’s finale (fittingly named “Discos and Dragons”) when becoming a member of the extra studious characters for a marketing campaign sesh. As a lot as followers undoubtedly wished Daniel to hang around with the nerdy peeps extra typically in a possible second season, it in all probability is sensible that he wasn’t a part of this mini-reunion. The holy trinity of Sam, Neil and Invoice ought to by no means be damaged or molded anew.
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Technically talking, the reunion scene does not truly really feel prefer it got here out of a Freaks and Geeks episode immediately, because it’s overtly self-aware and referential in that respect. However that does not really feel like a mark in opposition to in my eyes, since I will watch these characters do something, whether or not it is logical or not. Is my 12 months that a lot better after seeing Samm Levine and Martin Starr performing confused about the place their beards got here from? Clearly. And yours must be, too.
Let’s give these guys credit score for pulling off what might have been a very cornball and unamusing gag, by the use of mentioning how ridiculous an concept it’s for Dungeons & Dragons to ever get tailored right into a film. It helps that it truly is a ridiculous concept, contemplating how deep and unwieldy the RPG universe’s lore might be, whereas additionally being a medium that visually exists largely in gamers’ imaginations and by way of rulebook covers.
However not solely does the function exist, however the Geeks vet is majorly chargeable for its existence in its present kind. Daley and filmmaking accomplice Jonathan Goldstein joined the mission in 2019 as administrators after vacating their put up on The Flash, and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than they’d accomplished their very own draft of the screenplay to work from, with prior scribes Chris McKay and Michael Gilio getting story credit. Very similar to their different tasks, from Horrible Bosses to Spider-Man: Homecoming to Trip Pals, Honor Amongst Thieves will convey a hefty smattering of comedy to any and all hectic conditions and motion sequences, which is probably going what Sam, Neil and Invoice would have wished from a D&D film.
You’ll want to try Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves in theaters on Friday, March 31, to see if any Freaks and Geeks stars can be popping in for cameos. And let’s all proceed to clamor for much more reunion spots like this from the TV present’s forged members. I might like to see Ken and Nick strolling right into a dispensary for the primary time…