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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6300338" data-attributes="member: 2067">So the fact that licensing a D&D movie and licensing a Warcraft movie are different licenses from different companies with different long-term and short-term brand strategies is an irrelevant detail here? Even if we lived in a world where a studio head was shopping around and choosing between a Warcraft license and a D&D license to make a movie out of, you don't think D&D might be able to make a competitive offer? If nothing else, because cross-media saturation plays into Hasbro's long-term plans, you don't think that they might make a sweeter offer financially than EA (who apparently has no such plans) would? When we live in a world where almost any semi-popular young adult novel series can be turned into a franchise and where Uwe Boll can make movies out of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_%28film%29" target="_blank">semi-obscure violence-porn games</a> and hell, where <a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/10/17/social-cinema-reddit-post-catches-hollywoods-attention/" target="_blank">reddit posts are turned into films</a>, I'd recommend taking a closer look at what people with movie-making budgets find potentially valuable. It seems like you are vastly over-estimating their selectivity. Hungry Hungry Hippos. Monopoly. Battleship. Action Man! Hasbro's strategy is linked to making big media properties out of its games and toys. Why wouldn't D&D be caught in that net?</blockquote>

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