Dragonlance Joe Manganelio is Writing the D&D Movie? And Is it DRAGONLANCE?

Actor Joe Manganelio (from True Blood, Magic Mike, and more) appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, and reported that he is co-writing a movie script. While he doesn't namecheck D&D, his description sounds a lot like it, and he did recently meet up with WotC. "Last year with a playwright I went to Carnegie Mellon with, I actually made a draft of a film, and now we're talking to all the right parties. I had a two-day creative summit with the Wizards of the Coast...we had like a two-day summit about where the movie could go or TV series, products, synergy, the whole deal… Obviously, there's a spectacle. There's dragons breathing fire and lightning. But what makes a great superhero or fantasy movie is the human aspect. It's got to be about something. We root for those characters in Game of Thrones. Fellowship of the Ring was about friendship, this undying love for your friends. That's something everyone can identify with. When a movie is about something human and real emotionally people are going to want to see. Then you get some dragons breathing fire, and hey, I'm in." And to add fuel to the fire, he even tweets a photo of a DRAGONLANCE script! (thanks to darjr for the scoop)

The D&D movie is being directed by Rob Letterman (Goosebumps, Monsters vs. Aliens, Shark Tale), produced by Rob Lee (The Lego Movie, How To Train Your Dragon) and was/maybe still is being penned by David Leslie Johnson (Wrath of the Titans). Previous reports indicated that "This new Dungeons & Dragons will be a Guardians of the Galaxy-tone movie in a Tolkien-like universe. Because when you think of all the Hobbit movies and The Lord of the Rings, they have an earnestness to them, and to see something fun, a Raiders romp inside that world, I feel is something the audience has not seen before." and that "producers are eyeing a Vin Diesel-type for the film’s lead characters".

Of course, we also know that Vin Diesel plays D&D, as does Joe Manganiello.

So is he co-writing the D&D movie or is that something else? To add to the rumour pile, he tweeted an image of a DRAGONLANCE script (shown below). Of course, he could be playing with us. But maybe there is something in it? His name isn't that script, nor is David Leslie Johnson's. Let the speculation begin!

Manganelio at WotC in February

Manganelio tweeted this image



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[doctorbadwolf]

Oh, I'm totally not joking.

Elitism is aspirational. It's the force that makes me add Upstream Color to my Netflix queue.

Anti-elitism is why I end up watching Kitchen Nightmares.

Nah, elitism is the attitude or belief that your "special qualities" make you better than the "common man", and/or better suited to govern, speak on any given topic, that it makes your opinion more important or valid than others, etc. it includes the general attitude that consuming "high art" makes you better than consuming "trash media", and usually involves dismissal of the opinions of people who enjoy anything "common", because if they were intelligent people, such things would be beneath them.

Wanting to better yourself is good. Making part of that the idea of placing yourself above others is morally reprehensible.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

You can rotate your eyes until you lift off, doesn't change the fate of Eberron. The source books didn't sell as much as yet another FR supplement and the novel line never took off and was stopped early (and I still say that them being non-canon really hurt their sales compared to the FR novels)

For all the talk about wanting something new, not enough people were putting their money where their mouth was and FR kept outselling every other setting

I'm informed my response was somehow against some rule or other.

So, let me instead say this; Your point of view here is narrow, and over simplistic, and it's inclusion in this thread serves no useful purpose, even in the limited context of a thread about speculation on future DnD related conversions in visual media.

This has nothing to do with you, as a person, of course, and in fact I generally respect your opinion. It's simply that in this instance, I think you've spoken without any serious consideration of the subject matter, or having only cosidered one aspect/factor of the subject matter, and as a result, your post was not as additive to the thread as your posts normally are.

 

[Morrus]

Lol okay, buddy!

I've noticed recently that this "lol ok" posting style appears to be a habitual style of yours when you disagree with somebody. It's contemptuous, patronising, and very rude. Please stop doing that here.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Mercurius]

The problem with going for the Guardians of the Galaxy feel is that if you fail, you fail hard. I don't mind campy and light, but it needs to be balanced with depth and an interesting plot. I think the best example of this is Raiders of the Lost Ark, which balanced campy/fun with serious/dramatic.

What the holy what?!?: Teh Twitters

TLDR: It's an adaptation of Dragons of Autumn Twilight.

This would be very good news. I have long believed that, despite its flaws, the original two Dragonlance trilogies are the best stories to translate to film, especially if done with a big budget.

 

[Zarithar]

I really hope the Dragonlance rumors are true. If done right, it could be outstanding. Of course as others have pointed out, it's a pretty low bar!

 

[Morrus]

I really hope the Dragonlance rumors are true. If done right, it could be outstanding. Of course as others have pointed out, it's a pretty low bar!

Dragonlance rumours? I've missed that! Where are they?

 

[darjr]

Above a tweet from the actor showing a script titled Dragonlance.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Zarithar]

Dragonlance rumours? I've missed that! Where are they?

The actor tweeted a photo of a "Dragons of Autumn Twilight" script. http://collider.com/joe-manganiello-dungeons-and-dragons-script/