Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves And What's Making Us Happy

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Chris Pine stars as a wise-cracking and charismatic thief who leads a band of misfits with different reasons to hate a malevolent ruler played by Hugh Grant. It's a fantasy epic meets heist movie, complete with some dragons, talking corpses, relics and spells, an epic quest, and LOTS of jokes.

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0:00.0	Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves isn't the first attempt to adapt the legendary role
0:08.9	playing game for the big screen.
0:10.9	But this one does have the biggest budget, the best cast, and by far the best script.
0:15.9	I'm Glenn Weldon.
0:17.1	And I'm Stephen Thompson.
0:18.1	Today we are talking about Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves on Pop Culture Happy Hour
0:23.3	from NPR.
0:24.3	Joining me today is host of the Indicator from Planet Money, Wailin Wong.
0:28.1	Welcome.
0:29.1	Thank you.
0:30.1	Pleasure to have you also with us is Planet Money Producer Sam Yellowhorse Kessler.
0:34.7	Welcome back Sam.
0:35.7	Hold on one second I just got a role initiative.
0:37.7	Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
0:40.9	Nice.
0:41.9	Alright.
0:42.9	So, here we go.
0:45.5	So as we noted in the intro this is not the first movie adaptation of the 70s tabletop
0:49.8	role playing game Dungeons & Dragons.
0:52.0	There was an entire terribly misbegotten movie trilogy all the way back in the early 2000s.
0:57.4	But Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves is a big budget reset.
1:01.6	Chris Pine stars as Ed Darvis, a wisecracking and charismatic thief who leads a band of
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