…I decided to make my header Krull, the original attempt to make a D&D-based film but fell through and thankfully was recycled into a pretty good B-level Fantasy flick. It even stars the late Robbie Coltrane and big fave Liam Neeson when they were nobodies! Didn’t have any luck seeing in a theater 40 years ago. Much of my 1983 Summer was spent either getting acquainted with our new digs off the Gulf Freeway (Houston ‘burbs) or fixing up our house in Springfield (most of July).
The people behind it probably hoped it would be a bigger hit than ‘cult’ fave. I remember there was a cabinet-based video game for it. Its controls were pretty similar to Robotron. Can’t recall if any other promotions were tied to Krull.
I think the movie continues to hold up. It has numerous cool characters and elements: the cyclops, the shapeshifter, the woman of the web and the fire steeds. If the movie tanked, I’m sure those things I listed earlier made their way into a million D&D campaigns within days of other teen boys attending.