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Mythica: A Quest for Heroes  (2014)
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(Foreign Titles)
Tagline(s):The Fate of an Empire Lies in Her Hands
Nomination Year: 2026
SYNOPSIS: 

The first and least ambitious of the Mythica series of Kickstarted D&Dish movies, A Quest for Heroes is the standard getting the band together movie. The Wizard is a slave girl, secretly being tutored in the ways of magic by Kevin Sorbo. He has to leave town, though, because the movie can only afford him for one scene. On his way out, he urges the Wizard to flee her master and seek her fortune as an adventurer, by going to the adventurers' tavern outside of town and joining a party. Meanwhile, the Cleric's temple is overrun by orcs, most of the priests killed, and several of the other priests and the relic they've been guarding taken as loot. She heads to the adventurers' tavern to recruit a party to free the prisoners and recapture the relic. You see where that's going. To round out the group, they bust the Fighter out of jail and the Thief out of the mayor's wife's bedroom. Then it's off to fight a typical selection of first-level monsters including orcs, an ogre, and a cave troll. Unlike the sequels, A Quest for Heroes mostly lives within its means and thus manages to be better -- and, not coincidentally, less interesting -- than any of them. Alas.

Greg Pearson
Smithee Award Nominations
Oblivious
The Orcs Critical-Fail Their Perception Checks
World's worst escape plan actually works thanks to the orcs repeatedly rolling 1s on their perception checks.
Directors
Director Claim to Fame
Anne K. Black Does Bad swords-and-sorcery flicks. A lot of them. 
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
Melanie Stone Marek Mabel in V/H/S/99; Chrissy in Deadstream; and Ruby in Cupid for Christmas
Adam Johnson Thane Munt on "The Outpost"; Oliver Reese in Hypnotica; Malnick in Dragon Hunter; Cal Robertson in Orcs! 
Jake Stormoen Dagen Capt. Garret Spears on "The Outpost"; Duncan on "Extinct"; Devan in Strong Enough
Nicola Posener Teela Amelia on "The Bold and the Beautiful" (she was the latter); Yvonne on "Age of the Living Dead"; Teela in the Mythica movies. 
Christopher Robin Miller Hammerhead Does a load of voiceover work (like in "The Wingfeather Saga" and "The Aquabats!"). Bob in Ice Spiders
Natalie Devine Riskas Caeryn In addition to the Mythica series, was the therapist in Love Switch and Natalie in Timeless Love
Kevin Sorbo Gojun Pyle Prolific leading man actor in many fantasy films and shows, best known as TV's Hercules. 
Bobby Jacoby Peregus Malister AKA "Robert Jayne," he's a former child actor that was on a bunch of TV; was also Melvin Plug in the Tremors series; Jasper in Beyond the Wall of Sleep; and Bee #4 in Bee Movie
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