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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9238230" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>By Dille's own admission, they weren't married to the format; they were basically coming up with the story first, with the production details to be worked out later. To quote from his book:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">The MacGuffin of the series was a sceptre forged by seven ancient sorcerers that divided into seven parts. Each part was a portal to a different world. I have no idea whether we thought we could fit all of this into one movie or we were selling them on seven movies or we had a "back pocket" idea of a TV series. We just thought it was a cool idea.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Our hero was tentatively named Dart. He was a rogue/bard kind of a character. I had this goofy idea that he infiltrated enemy kingdoms guised as a magician with a traveling group of cutpurses with magical musical powers: one could hypnotize with their instrument, another could charm animals (like a snake charmer, but also birds, lions, dogs, whatever animal was necessary). Of course, all the wrong people were immune to his charms, and other wizards could turn his charisma into negativity.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">This band of loveable, musical, medieval thieves would always get wind of some treasure or some tyrant who needed assassinating or something and go on a mission. Of course, they'd always get in way over their heads and a desperate adventure would follow.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">We even figured there was a musical tie-in. After all, what are synthesizers, fuzz pedals, and the like other than magically enchanted musical instruments? So it was a heavy metal take on <em>A Hard Day's Night</em> set in a D&D World. Except the world changed. In fact, the genre changed. The only constant were the characters and the quest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 9238230, member: 8461"] By Dille's own admission, they weren't married to the format; they were basically coming up with the story first, with the production details to be worked out later. To quote from his book: [INDENT]The MacGuffin of the series was a sceptre forged by seven ancient sorcerers that divided into seven parts. Each part was a portal to a different world. I have no idea whether we thought we could fit all of this into one movie or we were selling them on seven movies or we had a "back pocket" idea of a TV series. We just thought it was a cool idea.[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]Our hero was tentatively named Dart. He was a rogue/bard kind of a character. I had this goofy idea that he infiltrated enemy kingdoms guised as a magician with a traveling group of cutpurses with magical musical powers: one could hypnotize with their instrument, another could charm animals (like a snake charmer, but also birds, lions, dogs, whatever animal was necessary). Of course, all the wrong people were immune to his charms, and other wizards could turn his charisma into negativity.[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]This band of loveable, musical, medieval thieves would always get wind of some treasure or some tyrant who needed assassinating or something and go on a mission. Of course, they'd always get in way over their heads and a desperate adventure would follow.[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]We even figured there was a musical tie-in. After all, what are synthesizers, fuzz pedals, and the like other than magically enchanted musical instruments? So it was a heavy metal take on [I]A Hard Day's Night[/I] set in a D&D World. Except the world changed. In fact, the genre changed. The only constant were the characters and the quest.[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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