D&D Movie/TV Joe Manganiello: Dragonlance TV Show No Longer In Development

Actor Joe Manganiello has confirmed that the anticipated Dragonlance TV show that he had been working on is no longer being developed. In an interview with ComicBook.com. According to Manganiello, following poor sales of Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen and the Warriors of Krynn board game last year, "Dragonlance is not a property [WotC] are interested in developing further currently". This decision was also prompted by Hasbro's sale of its media studio, eOne.

In March last year, Manganiello confirmed during an official D&D video update that he was working on a TV show for WotC, and a D&D live action series was greenly by Paramount in January. It's not clear if these are the same property.

Manganiello also talked about his approach to the property, and the new designs he had for the world, the dragons, and even the casting. "I want to make [the show] because I want to see it and I just want to feel that excited and electric about something. The characters...like the casting, I have a look book with over 1,000 pages, but it's not what you expect. The design concepts I had for the world, for the armor, for the swords....I had a fresh take on what the dragons were going to look like, it was going to be nothing like anyone has ever seen."

He has been working on a script for years, and was told by TV executives that his pilot was one of the best fantasy scripts they had ever read. He even offered to buy Dragonlance from WotC.

You can watch the whole interview at the link above.

 

[Incenjucar]

Really?!?! Are you really trying to convince folks that the Legend of Vox Machina was not a story pulled straight from a D&D campaign, keeping many easily identifiable aspects of the D&D meta-setting. That somehow they could have just as easily drawn from . . . . Shadowrun?!?!

Oookay.

A reference to a cartoon that didn't work at all like D&D makes it D&D?

 

[Oofta]

You cited specific elements. Colorful dragons can exist in Shadowrun just as easily.

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Edit: Overall the issue is that the greater the distance between what can happen on the screen and what is supported by the products, the less relevant the brand is to the show. If the show applies equally to Shadowrun or Werewolf why are you calling it D&D?

So I would have to list every single monster and element that it has in common? Show or stream? How many monsters do you expect to make an appearance in a few hours of a series when most of the enemies are human? But if we're just talking Legend of Vox Machina just look at the protagonists. We have gnomes, a goliath, half elves. The fact that out of all the PCs, only 2 are human is typical. Then we have iconic classes bard, druid, rogue, fighter (with a custom gunslinger subclass), cleric, ranger. Not sure if season 3 will get into Vax multi-classing into paladin, I kind of doubt it.

So ... how exactly is this not D&D?

 

[bedir than]

And heck, the cartoon takes place in an official published D&D Setting.

This should remove all doubt.

If searches quickly pull up multiple official books you can buy from WotC it's a D&D property

 

[Incenjucar]

So I would have to list every single monster and element that it has in common? Show or stream? How many monsters do you expect to make an appearance in a few hours of a series when most of the enemies are human? But if we're just talking Legend of Vox Machina just look at the protagonists. We have gnomes, a goliath, half elves. The fact that out of all the PCs, only 2 are human is typical. Then we have iconic classes bard, druid, rogue, fighter (with a custom gunslinger subclass), cleric, ranger. Not sure if season 3 will get into Vax multi-classing into paladin, I kind of doubt it.

So ... how exactly is this not D&D?

That's setting. Elves are from Tolkien. The characters were certainly using a good chunk of D&D, but you seem to forget you were talking about chromatic dragons. Mind those goal posts, yeah?

 

[bedir than]

These are all D&D? Right

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[Oofta]

That's setting. Elves are from Tolkien. The characters were certainly using a good chunk of D&D, but you seem to forget you were talking about chromatic dragons. Mind those goal posts, yeah?

Lordy lord ... the depiction of gnomes is, I suppose also from somewhere else? Where, pray tell are gray skinned Goliaths from?

I mean, there are trees too, it's just based on real earth!

 

[Incenjucar]

Yes, trees are another example of something that is not definitive of D&D. A fantasy story with trees, elves, dungeons, and dragons, is not automatically a D&D story, nor is their absence and indication. The whole discussion was sparked on why you would bother to call something D&D instead of just fantasy.

 

[Oofta]

Yes, trees are another example of something that is not definitive of D&D. A fantasy story with trees, elves, dungeons, and dragons, is not automatically a D&D story, nor is their absence and indication. The whole discussion was sparked on why you would bother to call something D&D instead of just fantasy.

Right ... so if anything ever appears that is not 100% D&D it's not a D&D show. I guess anything that has anything related at all to anything in the real world like air and a sun are "just fantasy".

And ... this is just trolling at this point as far as I can tell. Have fun.

P.S. You never answered the question about goliaths. Which as depicted in the show as are as far as I know is unique to D&D. But that doesn't suit your narrative so I guess we can ignore it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Not sure where this idea that CR is not D&D comes from.

There is a strong thread that runs through fandom that D&D requires something to be produced by WotC. Carried to its logical extreme, this means that every DM who homebrews is doing something other than D&D, I guess.

EDIT: Not in this case, but it's an attitude that has been explicitly stated on this board in the recent past.

 

[Incenjucar]

Right ... so if anything ever appears that is not 100% D&D it's not a D&D show. I guess anything that has anything related at all to anything in the real world like air and a sun are "just fantasy".

And ... this is just trolling at this point as far as I can tell. Have fun.

P.S. You never answered the question about goliaths. Which as depicted in the show as are as far as I know is unique to D&D. But that doesn't suit your narrative so I guess we can ignore it.

Goliaths are much more unique to D&D than elves are, yes. I didn't respond to it because I was responding to a different topic which you seemed to want to flee from.

Me: "Hats are not baseball"
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