What happened with Revan was a true shame. Remember the reddit AMA where it was basically outright stated that they made Revan lightside Caucasian male because just to appeal to the lowest common denominator of the playerbase....and made the exile a woman because revan was a man so they could afford to make the less popular/less important protagonist one.
Same story always repeating itself with rpgs that pride themselves on player choice and defining your own character. Abdel Adrian, Vault Dweller, Nerevarine etc. Seemingly can't leave well enough alone and let players enjoy the game the way they played it.
I'm still hoping that Larian gives us a bit of wiggle room to define our Bhaalspawn. The in-game material at least uses gender-neutral pronouns to describe them, which is a step in the right direction.
As for the movie, Pine is not an actor that I particularly enjoy. I don't mind hijinks emerging in games I play or DM, but that seems very much like WoTC wants to market D&D (and the Realms) on the emergent pop/meme culture perception of D&D where this is sort of the default state. Doesn't quite appeal to me-I'd much more prefer something that took the settings a bit more seriously ala the LoTR movies (which doesn't mean there shouldn't be humor or lightheartedness, which the trilogy definitely had as well). Doesn't mean the movie will be bad (D&D movies have a poor track record, admittedly) but I don't see myself going to see it, the whole 'Guardians of the Galaxy' style of marvel movies that got really popular burned me out on that sort of thing very quickly, and it's just not a theme I would have looked out for or really needed/wanted to see in D&D/Forgotten Realms to begin with.
