I chatted with Lee recently about nostalgia, gaming, nice FX, and getting knocked in the head. Any kind of story, when you get a good group of people -- those are the experiences you remember. That’s what we’re rolling the dice on.

Melanie Creel: D&D made its debut back in the seventies, so many folks going to see the movie will have a lot of nostalgic expectations for it on the big screen. How well do you think it will live up to them?

Lee Arenberg: (Considers.) I don’t know if you saw Almost Famous?

Melanie: The movie about the Rolling Stone writer? No, I haven’t seen it yet.

Lee: Well, that movie’s supposed to be nostalgic, too. I think [the movies] are going for nostalgia more. If you’re a parent and you have a young kid, the movie’s going to appeal to that child . . . ‘cause they’re going to be the one who wants to drag your ass to the theater. And you’ll go, “Man, that’s a fun movie. That’s why I was into the game!”

I’m older than some of the cast members, and yet young enough to have been a gamer, and grew up in Santa Monica where people played D&D in the seventies. I was in junior high in the mid-seventies.   Next Page »