Paramount’s new Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has had its release date pushed back by four weeks, with Deadline reporting the film is now eyeing a late March 2023 release. The latest attempt to bring the fantasy role playing world to life on the big screen will be looking to avoid the fate of the 2000 movie starring Jeremy Irons, which was a massive flop. This is just the latest delay to hit the reboot movie, which was initially slated to hit cinemas in July 2021 before being a casualty of the Covid pandemic shutdowns.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will be a new take on the role-playing board game that became more popular recently thanks to its central role in Netflix smash Stranger Things. however, whether there will be a big box office for the Chris Pine-led fantasy is yet to be seen, although this latest delay shouldn’t be seen as any kind of reflection on the movie itself and is more likely a purely logistic move.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was originally expected to debut in theaters on March 3, 2023, a date that has recently seen Creed III added to. While the two movies will have vastly different demographics, there is little doubt that Paramount will want to have the clearest run for the movie, and with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania releasing in mid-February, it is maybe not surprising that no one wants to really compete in its first few weeks on release.
Who Stars In Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves?
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves brings an ensemble cast together, and while that doesn’t always lead to success at the box office it usually doesn’t hurt either. Chris Pine is joined by Michelle Rodriguez, Bridgestone star Rege-Jean Page, Sophia Lillie, Justice Smith and Hugh Grant, who will take on the role of the movie’s villain.
Currently, there are little details known about the plot of the movie, although the synopsis reads: “A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.”
It seems that this time around, the movie will lean into some of the wider-known Dungeons & Dragons tropes, and will include references to the popular 1980s animated series based on the franchise. The first trailer for the movie suggested that the film will also not be taking itself over-seriously and it will have plenty of fun elements for both fans of the table-top game and those less familiar with it, which, according to director Jonathan Goldstein will stop the story from being dull for audiences. He previously said:
"You know what? We tried to capture the spirit of what it is to play a D&D game, which is life and death stakes one minute, and then you're laughing your heads off the next. That's what this movie hopefully is."
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will be released on March 31, 2023.