Jack Chick's "Dark Dungeons" being made into a movie

[NewJeffCT]

Should be fun!

The original Chick Tract from 30 years ago:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP

[Aristus]

1. Shades of the past.

When I was living in Texas, I played D&D with a group of guys, and we'd all laugh up our sleeves at the ultra-conservative morons in the neighborhood who would condemn RPG's and pronounce that we were all going to hell.

What really made it fun listening to the idjits was the fact that everyone in our group belonged to one church or another in the area. So it was not like we "didn't know Jesus."

A Jack Chick movie sounds like a straight-to-video project that will play in churches all across America, and never see the inside of a movie theater..

[NewJeffCT]

7. I'm pretty sure the movie

is a parody of Jack Chick's infamous anti-gamer cartoon

[jrralls]

2. I'm the author of Jack Chick's "Dark Dungeons" movie

JR Ralls here, author of the Dark Dungeons movie.

For our small budget we got a tremendous level of quality. Our hope is that it plays far and wide. While a theatrical release is unlikely, we will be playing in a few select theaters.

Dark Dungeons the movie will make its world premier at Gen Con, Indianapolis, the heart of gaming's evil dark heart.

If you have any questions fire away!

[CBGLuthier]

3. I have a question.

Why are you spreading this bullshit?

[NewJeffCT]

6. you do realize

it's a parody of Jack Chick, right?

[jrralls]

15. Not a parody

We stick very closely, as much as is possible in an adaptation from a 22 panel comic to a film, to show all the arguments that Jack Chick uses against RPGs with all the seriousness they deserve.

We also expose the threat of Cthulhu and the Necronomicon, which according to the Chick web side, and these are direct quote from his website, "the Necronomicon and the Cthulhu mythos are quite real" and " he mocks the Necronomicon and claims it is entirely fictional.59 It is not." As we have thoroughly researched Dark Dungeons both appear in the movie.

[JHB]

18. Arguably, by doing so it is a de facto parody...

...since any sufficiently advanced parody of jack Chick tracts is indistinguishable from the real thing.

And premiering at GenCon gives it away.

[Frank Cannon]

20. I think Poe's Law definitely applies here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

[sharp_stick]

4. Cool

How closely did you follow the tract?

The writing on that thing was cheesy beyond belief in church 30 and 40 years ago were you hoping to stay close to source in an all out satire or was there a conscious attempt to update the material?

[jrralls]

16. Close adaptation

Many of the lines and scenes in Dark Dungeons the movie are lifted straight, word for word, from the tract. It is of course expanded on, given that it's only 22 panels long, but we stay very close to the source material and the spirit of the work.

[NewJeffCT]

13. OK

what inspired you to make the movie?

[jmowreader]

14. There are projects that just demand to be done

Parodying a Chick tract is one of those projects. Let's be real: if you're going to rip on a Chick tract, this is one of the better ones. It would be fun to watch this and "Knights of Badassdom" as a double feature.

[jrralls]

17. Inspiration

I first came across the tract in college and was AMAZED by what it had to say. Blown away by it even. I wanted to make the film them but didn't have the resources. Then, about a decade and a half later, Kickstarter came along and I saw my chance. I asked Jack Chick for the right to film it, and he gave it to me for free. That is important to note: Jack Chick did not receive any money for the rights and will not receive any of the profits from the film.

[LynneSin]

5. Someone's got to help keep Kirk Cameron's career alive

[NewJeffCT]

9. I think

the movie is a parody of Jack Chick

[LynneSin]

10. I couldn't see the vidoe where I'm posting.

My bad

[arcane1]

8. The Thrillpeddlers in San Francisco did an on-stage version of this once.

It was hilarious

[NewJeffCT]

11. would have loved to have seen it

that cartoon strip has been parodied in gaming circles for almost as long as the original comic strip has been around

[arcane1]

12. I was starting to keep a collection of them for a while there.

I would run across them at least once a month while walking to work. Now I only have one, called "Death Cookie" about taking communion

[Dr. Strange]

19. Rats.

I was hoping they would make a movie of this one: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018422401

Starring taterguy as Chad Kroeger!