Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was an action-packed delight for the whole family, and is now available to watch at home on Premium Video-On-Demand and to purchase on Digital from Paramount Home Entertainment.
In the movie, a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people in this hilarious and action-packed adventure.
One of the movie's biggest surprises comes when Bradley Cooper makes a cameo as Holga's pint-sized ex, Marlamin. The hilarious and unexpected appearance from the actor results in one of Honor Among Thieves' best scenes, but considering how busy Cooper is behind the camera these days, how on Earth did the team working on the project make it a reality?
When we recently spoke to producer Jeremy Latcham, the former Marvel Studios executive talked in detail about reuniting with the Guardians of the Galaxy star on Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, revealing how it all came together and the surprisingly brief amount of time Cooper spent on set.
You can check out our full interview with Jeremy in the player below along with this excerpt about the Rocket actor's memorable cameo.
I have to ask you a question that’s been on my mind since watching the film: how did you make that epic Bradley Cooper cameo happen?
Wow, that was a really interesting thing that came together. We had shot the film and finished the movie. We knew that we wanted a cameo there in the middle of the film to make that scene really stand out, so the question became, ‘Who?’ I called one of our executives, Zev Foreman, actually mentioned the Bradley idea. We’d talked about a thousand names and he threw Bradley out there as someone who was unobtainable. I said, ‘Well, we did make him Rocket. I have good relationship with his manager and Rocket worked out pretty well as it’s one day of work and became iconic for him.’ Obviously, Guardians 3 seems to be all about Rocket which is really cool.
So, I called his manager and said, ‘Hey, I would like to screen the film for you. It’s near-done, the effects, sound, and score is still being worked on, but the picture is pretty much done.’ I live in Austin, Texas now so flew to LA but didn’t tell him. When his manager showed up, I was standing there, and I told him I really wanted to talk to him about it. He said, ‘This seems like a long shot, dude. This doesn’t seem like the kind of thing I’d want to do, but I know you guys are serious about it, and I’ll watch the movie.’ I walked him through why I thought the movie was good and why I thought he’d believe in it and why it would be a good idea. He called me afterwards and said, ‘Okay, so Bradley is going to do this.’ I said, ‘Does he know this yet?’ and he goes, ‘No, but we’re going to work on this because the movie is awesome. It’s great.’
It took about a month, but we showed the movie to Bradley and screened it in his editing room where he’s working on Maestro for Netflix (which is going to be incredible and he’s going to win all of the awards for that…it looks insanely good). We screened our little non-black and white art film that’s going to win Oscars and he called John [Francis Daley] who he’d worked with on ABC a million years ago. He’d been his sous-chef and called him to say, ‘I can’t believe you directed this movie. I will be in it. I love this movie and want to be in this. How can we shoot this?’
It came together really quickly. The quality of the film and having a finished movie he could see meant he agreed to do it. It was literally six hours. He came in and went through hair and makeup and, by six hours, I mean from arriving to leaving. We had to do a fitting, hair test, and makeup test…the whole nine yards. He shows up on set, we do the scene maybe four times, and we’re done. We just said, ‘Holy cow, that is gonna really be great.’ The first time we saw it in the film, as it was so late in the process, was at SXSW. We watched it there and people went crazy at that moment. It was worth the hassle and it was awesome. I’m so grateful that he did it and that he’s such a good guy and a mensch to come in and do these six hours of work for us. What a nice man. I have nothing but nice things to say about Mr. Bradley Cooper. I’m so thankful.
From Paramount Home Entertainment, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will be available to purchase on Digital 5/2. All bonus features will be available with a digital purchase.