Sorry, that laugh was a result of clumsy fingers on my phone.
Right, gotcha! Like, "we're tearing the competition a new a hole!"
Or is it more mild than that?
Right, gotcha! Like, "we're tearing the competition a new a hole!"
Or is it more mild than that?
I don't see John Carter as part of the barometer for the success or failure of a Spelljammer film.
With regard to Ravenloft and licensing, Universal has their monster films and is going to make their own cinematic monster universe. If you want a big-name vampire, Dracula is off the table.
Also, Ravenloft has plenty of other darklords, and Azalin, Jaqueline Renier, and Soth all have good film potential.
I'm not sure it's really about recognition, though, so much as story potential.They're likely to want to keep Soth back from a potential Dragonlance film. In any event, none of the others have close to the recognition of Strahd, so they're less appealing draws.
Guardians of the Galaxy had pretty much zero recognition: I've got Adam Warlock comics on my shelf - which is where Gamora debuted, I'm pretty sure, and I own and have read the Marvel Heroic RP Annihilation book (which sets out all the "cosmic" Marvel characters) and the Guardians were barely on my radar as a potential movie subject. Yet the film seems to have done pretty well.
Admittedly, "from the studio that brought you the Avengers" is a big help. Was it essential? I don't know.
But from the point of view of doing a D&D movie, I would be looking for compelling/appealing stories and characters, rather than - or at least as much as - recognition.
Fair point. How much is a story worth, in licence fee/percentage terms? I have no idea: movie finance is not my field!I was coming more from a "who would pay for a license, when they can do just as well without" angle. In terms of story, yeah, Ravenloft has plenty of potential.
Well, I would have said "Flash Gordon", but there hasn't been one of those in ages.
What does "on a tear" mean? Aren't tears bad?
Then again, in certain groups, so is "sick" (often written "sik," "sic," or "syk")...