- 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.
