Yahoo Movies Hugh Grant lines up villain role in new Dungeons and Dragons movie
Hugh Grant has played some great on-screen villains in his time: he was love rat Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones' Diary and The Edge of Reason, a politician who orders an assassination to keep a secret in A Very English Scandal, and, of course, he was EXCELLENT as Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2.
Now he is set to play another villain in a new big-screen adaptation of Dungeons and Dragons, the granddaddy of tabletop RPGs.
Deadline has reported that he's been cast alongside It and I Am Not Okay with This star Sophia Lillis, although we don't know too much about her role at the moment.
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They've joined an already impressive cast list that includes Wonder Woman 1984's Chris Pine, Bridgerton's Regé-Jean Page, Detective Pikachu's Justice Smith, and The Fast and Furious franchise's Michelle Rodriguez.
The plot of the film is being kept under wraps at the moment, but it's got Grant playing a villain, so we're sold.
Dungeons and Dragons was previously adapted into a film released back in 2000 that starred Marlon Wayans, Jeremy Irons, Tom Baker and The Crystal Maze's Richard O'Brien. It was famously not reviewed very well, so we can only hope this one will be better received.
Hasbro has been very vocal about turning its properties into hit movies, with this, more Transformers and GI Joe, a big-screen adaptation of '80s cartoon MASK and a reboot/sequel to the 2017 Power Rangers movie.
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