The lore for “The Last Witch Hunter” is really deep. was a forward thinker in all of this and was very, very ambitious. How could a D&D influenced genre live in a Bond-like cinematic world? And that”s what he did. But also attempting to set it in a modern time which is kind of fun because. VIN: Cory went off to write “The Last Witch Hunter” and was attempting to speak to D&D character. So basically you”re living out every D&D player”s dream. We”d treat it and make it look aged and then we”d have these huge nets and we”d be able to delve into this thing. With just paper and old pieces of canvas. We would go and buy these huge sheets of canvas and we”d slave over creating this world and we created worlds – which you often hear a lot of directors boast about how they can create worlds? Well there”s no training that you can think of that sets you up creating these fantasy-like worlds. We would go to the hardware shop, we”d go up to a place called The Complete Strategist. And we had access to all kinds of great material. All the kids that I played with were sons of artist. But at that time when we started playing? We were just a bunch of artists living in an artist community in Manhattan. Now we take it for granted and we get to play MMOs online and video games have gone to another level. And I say that to kind of contextualize how far back that experience was for me and how much of a pioneer Gary Gygax was at that time. When I first started playing Dungeons and Dragons, I think maybe a thousand people in the world knew what the word internet meant. VIN: I played the witch hunter because I was a huge fan of rangers and this was a class that was somewhat like a ranger and had a small spell class, called mysticism at the time. There were a few characters that started there that eventually Dungeons and Dragons took over one of those characters was a witch hunter. It was a character that you could get from a third party book of characters called The Arcanum. Just the very fact that I”d be playing a witch hunter speaks to how nerdy I was about the game, how committed I was to D&D because witch hunter class by TSR at the time.

went off to write a whole film around my character Melkor.

Someone put us together because he was a D&D player. about four years ago I met with a writer name Cory Goodman and we started talking. I even talked about a character that I had named Melkor – a name that obviously I stole from “The Silmarillion ” – and that character was a witch hunter. I talked about my experience growing up playing Dungeons and Dragons religiously. For the 30th anniversary Dungeons and Dragons the company at the time asked me to write the foreword for the book. What was it about “The Last Witch Hunter” that attracted you? Instead we talked about Dungeons & Dragons. Last November, I had a chance to sit down and talk to Vin Diesel on the set of his upcoming fantasy film “The Last Witch Hunter.” Ostensibly we were supposed to discuss Diesel's immortal witch hunter character Kaulder and how the lore of the witch world differs from any other telling audiences have ever seen.

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