‘Vox Machina’ Star Travis Willingham on AI Fears Amid SAG-AFTRA Strike and Critical Role Movies: ‘The Potential Is Certainly There’

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Diego Ramos Bechara editor One of Travis Willingham‘s top-tier wishes is for a “Critical Role” campaign to be adapted into a full-fledged “Dungeons and Dragons” feature film. “The ‘Critical Role’ world is stacked with stories—there is a huge clamoring for the ‘Exandria Unlimited: Calamity.’ I think every form of distribution is great [but] we have never made a feature before,” Willingham said. “One thing we’ve consistently done at ‘Critical Role’ is we’ve tried to find where the ceiling is.

What are we capable of doing? What are our wildest dreams, and are we able to achieve those? I think the desire is there. It might just be a matter of finding the time for everything else, but I think the potential is certainly there.” Willingham joined Variety Studio, presented by Google TV at the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con, to chat all things “The Legend of Vox Machina” Season 3 and teased what fans can come to expect about the season he said is sure to “set the internet on fire.” The Prime Video animated fantasy series based on the “Dungeons and Dragons” web series “Critical Role,” follows a group of misfit adventurers known as Vox Machina as they embark on epic quests, confront dark forces, and strive to protect the realm of Tal’Dorei.

The show’s third season is slated for an Oct. 3 release on the streamer. Willingham spoke about the unique challenge that always comes with distilling hundreds of hours worth of campaign content into 12 30-minute-long episodes—reflecting on having had over 400 hours worth of content when they were creating Seasons 1 and 2 and having to trim it down into just six hours.