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

"Dragonlance is not a property WotC are interested in developing further currently."

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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.
 
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mamba

mamba

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Shardstone said:
I can't reply to this in depth without getting a mod note, but I could write a series of books on why a lot of the things you're referencing are disgusting and shouldn't be praised as good.
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I am not saying the Cataclysm was good, I am saying the Kingpriest was evil... I guess the people in DL did not see the Cataclysm as good either, since they abandoned their gods after it - something the worshippers of the 'real-world equivalent' somehow have not done
 
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Shardstone

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I think that's the first person I've ever blocked on these forums. Anyway, to get back to the topic at hand, I do think that, @mamba, you have brought up an interesting idea that a religious take on Dragonlance and the fall out of the Cataclysm would have been very interesting. I know you didn't directly suggest this, but your comments make me think that this direction would have been super interesting and fresh, and would have been a mature spin on the setting. Alas, if only Joe had more sway.
 

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Parmandur said:
Well, this is a real bummer, and it seems that those Dragonlance board games showing up in clearance stores were part of a trial balloon to see if people wanted Dragonlance:

"Manganiello said the planned project was not moving forward due to several issues, including Hasbro's sale of the eOne studio and the poor performance of a Dragonlance D&D adventure and board game in 2022, as reasons why the project was not proceeding."

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Dragonlance Live-Action Project Not Moving Forward According to Joe Manganiello

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That is extremely bad management, the actual product was the problem, not the setting or War of the Lance.

Once again the fandom pays the price for WotC putting out naughty word products for too often. Something needs to change at the D&D studio. IMHO the "setting book" was very poor as well, it needed a proper setting book, not an adventure.

But they should have looked to the DL novels sales instead of products that were rules dependant, stead of Setting/Story dependant.

WotC needs better
 

jerryrice4949

jerryrice4949

Hero
Deset Gled said:
The problem is that you're going up against actual, recent sales data. You could be right, you could be wrong. But the best data available doesn't support it. From a business standpoint, it doesn't matter how many holes you can try and poke in the current data until you have new data that actually supports doing something different. The sales data you're talking about with the books is decades old.

Also, you can be sure suits at Hasbro are paying at least some attention to ticket sales for The Book Of Mormon. How they interpret that data in relation to Dragonlance is a bit more complicated.
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The sales data for the adventure book is completely irrelevant to whether a movie or tv show would be successful. Don’t see Marvel making decisions for tv and movies based on comic book sales. I am sure they have a valid reason and I am certain it has nothing to do with the adventure book sales.
 



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WotC/Hasbro sold eOne. They seem to be getting out of all video production. This might not be so much a comment on the viability of Dragonlance or the vision behind the series as it is just not putting resources into making any video.
In a much smaller scale, my job requires the handling of budgets. Every so often I have to adjust our resources and have to make tough decisions about not renewing subscriptions that aren't widely used, cut spending on CD audiobooks and redirect budget to downloads. It's not that I hate CDs, I just know that the patrons are getting more use from the downloads.
 

mamba

mamba

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Shardstone said:
I do think that, @mamba, you have brought up an interesting idea that a religious take on Dragonlance and the fall out of the Cataclysm would have been very interesting. I know you didn't directly suggest this, but your comments make me think that this direction would have been super interesting and fresh
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it would be, I expected the TV show to be based on the novels though, rather than an original story, so we probably would not have gotten that anyway

Still, I liked the novels then, are they great literature, no, but a lot of books I like are not great literature, what can I say, I am a simple person ;)

To me they still are the D&D Lord of the Rings however, and if they cannot get that off the ground, I do not think there is anything else they can
 

jerryrice4949

jerryrice4949

Hero
Retreater said:
WotC/Hasbro sold eOne. They seem to be getting out of all video production. This might not be so much a comment on the viability of Dragonlance or the vision behind the series as it is just not putting resources into making any video.
In a much smaller scale, my job requires the handling of budgets. Every so often I have to adjust our resources and have to make tough decisions about not renewing subscriptions that aren't widely used, cut spending on CD audiobooks and redirect budget to downloads. It's not that I hate CDs, I just know that the patrons are getting more use from the downloads.
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I appreciate your post. This explanation seems much more plausible to me.
 

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