‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Releases First Trailer At San Diego Comic-Con

We’re finally getting a longer look at the much-anticipated Dungeons & Dragons movie starring Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez. The film seems ready to capture the chaos and scale of a D&D game while also having some funny dialogue and sharp characters to enjoy.

Pine’s character Elgin is part of a fantasy adventuring party and does an efficient job explaining their crucial mistake that becomes the thrust of the plot. “Truth be told, we helped the wrong person steal the wrong person. We didn’t mean to unleash the greatest evil the world has ever known,” he summarizes.

Obviously, there will be dungeons to crawl through, and dragons to fight/be terrified of. It also seems like there are some gorgeous fantasy worlds on display and the party of six thieving wanderers we’ll be adventuring with appears to have the variety you’d expect from the Dungeons and Dragons movie.

This trailer teased some powerful-looking artifacts, and fun magic character abilities like magic shields and animal shapeshifting. The gorgeous environments like a sprawling underground city and less friendly-looking magma caverns and ice fields were all great too, and hopefully, the movie won’t be too rushed going through all of them.

The general concept of having a D&D party on a quest to undo the mistakes they made is a fun, self-referential story element to bring to the movie. Tabletop RPG sessions can sometimes cause even the most rational people to make insane decisions in character that echo through the world, and seeing that sort of reflected here is a strong decision by the filmmakers.

Finally, this wouldn’t be a D&D movie without some of its iconic monsters being shown off. There was more than one dragon just in the trailer, and other iconic beasts like the Owlbear, a Mimic pretending to be a treasure chest eating adventurers, and even the Gelatinous Cube which is, well, a big clear cube that dissolves people who fall into it.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will be released on May 23, 2023, by Paramount Pictures. It also stars Regé Jean-Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis and Hugh Grant.