Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is LIVE! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Joe Manganelio is Writing the D&D Movie? And Is it DRAGONLANCE?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 7712990" data-attributes="member: 6669048"><p>Okay, here's a breakdown of the complex matter of the Dungeons & Dragons Movie Rights:</p><p></p><p>* Sweetpea Entertainment (the company that put out the first three D&D movies, yes there were three of them) currently has the rights to a "Dungeons & Dragons" movie. Due to a court settlement, they also have the rights to use Forgotten Realms intellectual property but NOT full rights (they can make a movie set in the Realms, but they can't make an Elminster or Drizzt movie).</p><p></p><p>* The rights to all other properties (Dragonlance, Ebberon, Ravenloft, Planescape, etc.) are still with Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro. They can make a Dragonlance movie, but they can NOT call it "Dungeons & Dragons". This is why the direct-to-DVD animated film for Dragonlance doesn't have D&D anywhere on it.</p><p></p><p>* The rights are "use it or lose it", meaning that a film must be produced or the rights will revert back to Hasbro. This is why there have been three D&D movies as two of them were low-budget affairs made pretty much solely so that Sweetpea Entertainment could keep the rights. This is the same reason we're going to see another Fantastic Four movie reboot even though the other three films failed spectacularly, and the same reason we get an X-Men movie every other year.</p><p></p><p>* Sweetpea Entertainment had, as of fall 2015, a distribution and development deal with Warner Bros. to produce a Dungeons & Dragons movie with an estimated budget of about $120 million. This deal may or may not still be in place, but when people talking about the "new D&D movie", this is what they're talking about. And they have to get production started on this movie soon or they're going to lose the rights.</p><p></p><p>Here's where things get interesting...Warner Bros. may not be involved still because Hasbro holds all the merchandising rights. So IF they back this big D&D movie and IF it's a success, they're going to miss one of the largest revenue streams for the IP, which is the t-shirts and toys. Meanwhile, Universal has a first-look deal with Hasbro on all their properties (this is the same deal that gave us the cinematic classics Transformers, GI Joe, Battleship, and the forthcoming Monopoly movie) and pretty much the moment that WotC gets the D&D movie rights back, they're going to greenlight a D&D movie of their own (which was announced also back in 2013 until the lawsuit happened).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 7712990, member: 6669048"] Okay, here's a breakdown of the complex matter of the Dungeons & Dragons Movie Rights: * Sweetpea Entertainment (the company that put out the first three D&D movies, yes there were three of them) currently has the rights to a "Dungeons & Dragons" movie. Due to a court settlement, they also have the rights to use Forgotten Realms intellectual property but NOT full rights (they can make a movie set in the Realms, but they can't make an Elminster or Drizzt movie). * The rights to all other properties (Dragonlance, Ebberon, Ravenloft, Planescape, etc.) are still with Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro. They can make a Dragonlance movie, but they can NOT call it "Dungeons & Dragons". This is why the direct-to-DVD animated film for Dragonlance doesn't have D&D anywhere on it. * The rights are "use it or lose it", meaning that a film must be produced or the rights will revert back to Hasbro. This is why there have been three D&D movies as two of them were low-budget affairs made pretty much solely so that Sweetpea Entertainment could keep the rights. This is the same reason we're going to see another Fantastic Four movie reboot even though the other three films failed spectacularly, and the same reason we get an X-Men movie every other year. * Sweetpea Entertainment had, as of fall 2015, a distribution and development deal with Warner Bros. to produce a Dungeons & Dragons movie with an estimated budget of about $120 million. This deal may or may not still be in place, but when people talking about the "new D&D movie", this is what they're talking about. And they have to get production started on this movie soon or they're going to lose the rights. Here's where things get interesting...Warner Bros. may not be involved still because Hasbro holds all the merchandising rights. So IF they back this big D&D movie and IF it's a success, they're going to miss one of the largest revenue streams for the IP, which is the t-shirts and toys. Meanwhile, Universal has a first-look deal with Hasbro on all their properties (this is the same deal that gave us the cinematic classics Transformers, GI Joe, Battleship, and the forthcoming Monopoly movie) and pretty much the moment that WotC gets the D&D movie rights back, they're going to greenlight a D&D movie of their own (which was announced also back in 2013 until the lawsuit happened). [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Joe Manganelio is Writing the D&D Movie? And Is it DRAGONLANCE?
Top