Dungeons & Dragons (film)

The movie Dungeons & Dragons is a 2000 live-action movie based on the role-playing game (RPG) Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). The story concerns an evil wizard who attempts to control red dragons with a powerful artifact.

The movie is generally considered a very poor work by fans of the RPG, because of the often amateurish writing, direction and camera work of its producer/director, Courtney Solomon. A rumor circulated among fans claims that the film's cast members (such as noted character actor Jeremy Irons) swore a mutual oath that they would never again work for the director. The film suffers an abysmal 10% on Rottentomatoes.com, is brutalized on the Internet Movie Database, and is found on the List of movies that have been considered the worst ever

Some speculated that the movie might have done better had it been released during the height of D&D's popularity in the mid-1980s. By the time this movie was released, the largest potential fan-base had lost interest in the game.

The movie featured a cameo appearance of British actor Richard O'Brien in a parody of his game show The Crystal Maze.

Despite the poor box-office showing of the film, a sequel, Dungeons & Dragons 2: The Elemental Might, is now in post-production, despite the much failure of its much maligned predecessor.