- Welcome, the cast of 'Dungeons & Dragons' to Comic-Con.
Welcome to our little prom set.
Anyone here have a '90s prom?
Chris, I did the math.
You had a '90s prom. - Yeah, I had a '90s prom.
- Does this take you back?
- Not at all.
[Laughs]
- We're very excited about this film,
and this is one that we haven't seen
any footage of before anything prior to today at Comic-Con.
What the hell is this movie?
Is it a comedy?
Is it action-adventure?
Educate me.
What am I getting myself into
with this new 'Dungeons & Dragons,' guys?
- Yes.
- [Josh] All the above? [Laughs]
- I think you're spot on, man.
I like to describe it -
I think it's, like, 'Princess Bride,'
which is a film from our time, and 'Monty Python' a bit,
which I think one of the clips today
kind of gave that vibe for.
It certainly, you know, has the size and scope
of 'Game of Thrones' and big blockbuster stuff like that.
But I think it's got, you know, deep earnest heart.
It's got good feels.
It's funny, it takes itself seriously when it has to,
but for the most part, it's just a good giggle.
It'll make you leave the theater feeling bright and sunny.
- Oh, I need that.
We all need that right now.
So slightly funnier than 'Game of Thrones' though.
There's a little more -
- Less sex. More funny.
[Laughs]
- Have we now, between your movie and 'Stranger Things,'
finally made Dungeons & Dragons officially cool?
Is that an ulterior motive of this?
- So what is -
This is the second reference to 'Stranger Things'
and 'Dungeons & Dragons.'
Is it a big part of 'Stranger Things?'
- Yes.
- I'm looking at you
because you're the youngest of the bunch,
and I think you know about 'Stranger Things.'
[Laughs]
- [Josh] Let's educate Chris.
- There's a few episodes where they play it.
[Laughs]
- She's not wrong.
- [Josh] I mean, accuracy right there.
- Yeah. I guess.
- Cool. - Yeah.
[Laughs]
- Great talking to you.
[Laughs]
- [Josh] Was this the vibe on set?
- Oh yeah. - Oh yeah.
- This was 100% the vibe,
which I think is very appropriate to the film
and to the material we're working with.
[Laughs]
The best campaigns you'll ever play
are highly improvisational.
It never goes according to plan.
I think the best thing about
the vibe we call in the movie is -
[Laughs]
- He's waiting.
He's waiting. I know.
[Laughs]
- It's a wonderful film.
[Laughs]
And it's a wonderful game.
I've never played it.
It scares me.
The idea of it.
It seems a fraction satanic.
- Oh, wow.
No, no, that was -
- You also don't like monsters, do you?
- I'm terrified.
- But they -
- Ever since I had to be taken out of
'The Wizard of Oz' as a child 'cause it was too scary.
- The movie?
- This film is -
Yeah, this is the kind of film I can't watch.
It's too frightening.
Even the trailer I found alarming.
Those things in the maze.
[Snarls]
Terrifying.
- But also the monsters upstage you, no?
- I dunno that.
- [Josh] That's impossible.
- He does not like that.
- D&D was a part of how many people's lives
on this couch here?
Let's start with Michelle.
OK, let's start with you, Michelle.
So, dating back to when you were a kid -
- [New] Jersey, I mean, it's, kind of, like,
it comes with the territory. Comic book world,
artists who draws, special art class
with all the geeks who draw.
Like, you end up in a basement somewhere eventually
to play Dungeons & Dragons.
- Are you a big drawer?
- Yeah. Big artist.
- Seriously?
- Yeah, I love to draw.
- I didn't know that. - Yeah, it's a big thing.
- Very cool. - I used to love
drawing comic books when I was a kid.
- You're in the right place. - I had no idea.
- Yeah. That was my thing.
And collecting all the 'Marvel' cards and 'DC' cards.
Yeah, that was big.
- [Josh] I love it.
- I was a total dork.
- You got another dork friend of yours, Vin Diesel,
who's like the the biggest D&D fan on the planet.
- Not a fan, he's a Dungeon Master.
- [Josh] I know.
So is he -
- Like, a big difference.
There's a thing called fans,
and then there's the dudes who like run [beep].
- Fair. Fair.
Have you played D&D with him?
Did he angle for a cameo?
What's he feeling about this?
- It's a race in futility to play with Vin.
'Cause like, you know, you look at his closet
and you see all the books and paraphernalia
that he has from Dungeons & Dragons
and he's 10 years older than me.
So I know he's been doing it for a lot longer.
- [Josh] He's put in the time.
- I'm like, not even gonna try.
Like, I'm sorry, like he's a dude
that has tons of patience and he'll like wait me out
and I just I don't like that.
I don't like playing chess with him
or Dungeons & Dragons with him.
Those are two games that I just leave off the table.
- Fair enough.
So Sophia, I've heard you have played D&D.
Talk to me a little bit about,
look at your friends on this couch here.
Who do you think would make a good collaborator game player?
Who maybe would you wanna skip a night playing D&D with?
- These people?
[Laughs]
- You wanna skip all of them?
- Strong choice.
- Well, I actually played D&D with these -
No, not you.
[Laughs]
I played D&D with everyone else here before.
You weren't there, right?
- I was, I just wasn't invited.
- Just beating down the door.
- Sorry.
No, we played D&D together right before we shot.
It was kind of like our way of introducing ourselves
and having a little bit of an insight
of how we were gonna play these characters.
And it was a lot of fun.
It was -
Sorry, it was a lot of fun.
It definitely went a little off the rails
at a certain point.
I think that's -
- Who's responsible for that?
Who went rogue?
- Sophia.
- Me?
- Actually, it was you.
- [Josh] You seem traumatized by it.
You seem like you're staring into her eyes.
- I'm trying to remember.
- Started drinking a lot.
[Laughs]
Like a classic Sophia night.
- She's having a Dory moment.
- Sorry, yeah.
I enjoyed myself.
- [Josh] Did you enjoy yourself, Chris?
It seems like you have bad news.
- I loved it!
I absolutely love, I'm honest 100%.
I don't like board games much at all.
And this one was fun 'cause it's like acting.
It's you pick a role,
and then you go play the role, with your friends
and have a good time,
and we did play once before we started with a Dungeon Master
from a Wizard of the Coast,
which is the organizing body that kind of handles
all things Dungeons & Dragons and rules
and all that stuff, which is great fun
'cause they're great at storytelling.
That's the other thing.
That's another thing we should talk about
is that, like, a good Dungeon Master
is like a good emcee of a party.
It's like going to Bar Mitzvah.
I don't know if anyone went to Bar Mitzvahs
when they were kids, but it's like,
sometimes there'd be a great emcee.
- You compared yourself to Eddie Munson,
I believe, at the panel today, Regé.
Yeah, yeah, are you talking about the hair in high school?
Did you have the Eddie Munson hair?
What was your point of reference?
- The idea of being something of an outsider
and having these things to fall back on.
So like I would go home and I'd play JRPGs,
which is kind of adjacent to D&D.
So kind of role playing games in general
owe a great debt to Dungeons & Dragons.
And so something about the idea
of these escapist fantasies that give you wider worlds
than you might have available to you
in like your everyday life,
which I think is a parallel that you can draw.
There's something really joyous about the movie,
which I think Chris talks about really eloquently.
I think being able to have a movie that's that joyous,
and earnest, and fun, and warm on that scope
is something that surprised me about the script,
and that I think surprised the audience
in the hall today about the clips.
And I think we can all go forward
feeling really really good about that 'cause of that.
And then the anarchy that comes with it.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- It's just icing on the cake.
- I have no idea.