Mood: slightly anctious
Music: the menu music to Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE DVD (if you can call that droning music)

As I have not written anything in some time it seemed due that I should do so. The following is simply some ideas that have been tossed around by Heath, myself and a few others. It had been brought up that a sequel to the Dungeons & Dragons movie is in the works. Here's some ideas as to what we might do if we were to write it:

Heath had suggested keeping Jeremy Irons and the actor who played the evil fighter from the first movie around for the second recognizing that while their acting was horrible in the first film he knows that they CAN act if given the chance to do so. He also suggested a cameo appearance by Tim the Enchanter from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
For the opening credits I'd have the camera extremely close-up on dice as they roll across a table revealing the credits in their wake as if the dice stamped them onto the table. As the pan continues it would reveal such other sundry items on the table as pencils, game books, notebooks, character record sheets, hex maps, miniatures, DM's screen, ninja notes, pizza, Mountain Dew, chips, pretzels, and other snacks, and stacks of magazines of Dungeon, Dragon and Heavy Metal. A new camera pan would scroll across a bookshelf full of fantasy and scifi novels, and another would show some movie like Monty Python, Star Wars, Ghostbusters or some other appropriate movie on the nearby tv.
Other cameo apearances in the movie should include Gary Gygax and Dave Arnsison, Steve Jackson, Mark Rein-Hagen, and Mike Pondsmith.
The movie should consist of two parallel stories: one following a group of role-players and how they deal w/ the issues they face in everyday life; and the other being the fantasy story imagined by the players. The movie should be very tongue-in-cheek with lines dished out like Bill Murray in Ghostbusters. Mutlitple movie references should include MOnty Python, Star Wars, the Princess Bride, Conan, Aliens, the Terminator, etc. It should not take itself seriously, and yet it should do for role-players what Clerks and the Jersey oeuvre did for comic book afficianados.
Heath has suggested that the fantasy story have a simple plot like rescue the princess or something like that. I think it at least needs a proper dungeon crawl. The penultimate villain should be a dragon of course, but that shouln't be revealed until the third movie according to Heath. Possibly that dragon would be Tiamat.
I suggested that in the fantasy element live-action be meshed with the occasional random old-fashioned cell animation thrown in: perhaps of the original Dungeons & Dragons cartoon characters + images from the original D&D books, and perhaps one roto-scoping drive-by image perhaps from the original Heavy Metal movie or Wizards.
A trip to a gaming convention should yield an encounter w/ Elmore.
Yoda and Darth Vader should cameo in the fantasy element as if they were actors w/ some one-liner a la "Amateurs," or "Oh, shit! There goes the planet."
The soundtrack should include Howard Shore spoofing his own LotR score, loads of Queen, some KISS, Black Sabbath or Ozzy, various other metal and goth (bloodletting by Concrete Blonde comes to mind), Monty Python of course, Weezer's In the garage, some filk, and perhaps the Dungeons & Dragons bit by the Drunk Alewives most often heard on Dr. Demento.
Confrontations with the mother figure should occur in the players half of the story a la Detroit Rock City with satan-worshipping controversies covered.

I may add more to this later. Feel free to offer me suggestions.