Dungeons and Dragons movie sites

With the Dungeons and Dragons movie fast upon us (it goes out to US release early December this year), we thought it might be opportune to have a look at some good sites that focus on this movie.

First on the list - but by no means the best - is the official site over at http://www.seednd.com/

Don't get us wrong, it's slick enough - lots of Flash and nice feetcs, but they've gone and done the interface to mimic a role playing game, exploring 'lands' (read sections).

We just wanted to download the ficking trailer for Kron's sake … it took as five minutes of frustration to realize this wasn't going to happen this year, so we gave up and hopped over to the definitive fan site for the movie ,,, dndmovie.com

Now this is more like it; the site was packed full of trailers, stills, cast lists, character descriptions … more content than you could shake a stick at.

If the maxim content is king still holds true on the Net, D'n'D Movie is the crowned emperor of the field. Their interface is the standard left nav, top nav affair, so even dunces like the Crowsnest crew could fall over the site and pick up lots of interesting facts about the movie.

For those that are interested, here's a potted history of the film The film is set in the Kingdom of Izmer, and the plans of the wicked wizard Profion, who is doing some magic arms development to sorcery up a wicked gizmo that'll depose said realm's royal family, allowing him to become the grand mucky muck over the land.

Profion manages to bump off the ruling monarch, but is displeased to learn that teenage Princess Savina then grabs the throne and starts making plans to free Izmer from the grasp of the Council of Mages (kind of a Wizard's Senate who dominate politics in the land).

Profion frames the Princess for the murder of her father, and she has to flee along with the normal group of D&D character-servants such as rangers, dwarves, thieves etc on a quest to find some object of magic powerful enough to give the wicked Profion a good hiding.

Said object is called the Rod of Savrille. We can only speculate here at the 'Nest why it wasn't called the Rod of Stewart? Hmmm. The plot sounds like fairly standard questing material.

Will this be the movie to do for fantasy what Star Wars did for SF on film? Willow was the last attempt to do this, and even George Lucas failed (if you measure success by mountains of dollars, that is).

If your appetite has been wetted, then fantasy fans should make http://www.dndmovie.com their first port of call, and if you have loads of time on your hands, then visit http://www.seednd.com/ too.