Dungeons & Dragons movie summons a mini Freaks and Geeks reunion

The premiere of Dungeon & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the second attempt at a live-action D&D movie, following the Jeremy Irons-led box office bomb from 2000. This version has many reasons to be happy: It features a cast that is fun and lighthearted, and there are tie-ins with D&D. The movie was written by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who also directed the 2018 comedy. Game Night.

That’s not all Daley is known for — he first rose to prominence in the short-lived cult-hit NBC series Geeks and Freaks, in which he starred as a D&D-playing geek named Sam. In the promo lead up to Honor among Thieves, “Sam” has reunited with his old buddies Bill (Martin Starr) and Neal (Samm Levine), picking up right where they left off with a long (looooooong) Dungeons and Dragons game.

It’s a cute little bit. The group suddenly realizes they’ve been playing for 23 years (Geeks and Freaks’ one and only season ended in 2000), and are surprised to find that Bill and Neal now have facial hair (Sam laments that he has not yet hit puberty). At the end, Sam brings up how cool it would be for there to be a D&D movie… an idea the group instantly dismisses as ludicrous and impossible. Maybe it’s not Very as ludicrous and impossible as a 23-year nonstop D&D game, but hey, I’m not going to complain about some of the Geeks and FreaksThe gang reunites, for just a moment.