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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 5433017" data-attributes="member: 18182">To my knowledge, the current D&amp;D live action movie rights are with Silver Pictures.&nbsp; Sweetpea Pictures might have rights too, not sure.&nbsp; Sweetpea is the company of the dude with huge brass balls who walked into TSR's offices with no real experience in the industry whatsoever, and walked out with the rights to the D&amp;D movies.&nbsp; He then made a terrible movie with a moderate budget and effects.&nbsp; He co-produced it with Joe Silver, and Silver has been the major producer on the second film, and the upcoming third film, &quot;Book of Vile Darkness&quot;.&nbsp; WotC has no (or very little) control over these films, but the producers are working with WotC to get the &quot;details&quot; right and WotC is promoting the film, as it helps promote their products.&nbsp; However, the first two movies were crap, and the third is likely to be as well.Animated movies are a different story (I believe), as I don't think Silver Pictures had anything to do with the terrible animated Dragonlance movie released a year or so ago.&nbsp; Not really sure if anybody has exclusive rights.The video game rights are currently held by Atari, and all announced projects . . . all two of them, &quot;Neverwinter&quot; and &quot;Daggerdale&quot; are Atari games.&nbsp; Whether their rights will soon expire or not, I don't know, haven't heard anything.&nbsp; WotC has very little input on the games as well, but the development houses often coordinate with WotC to try and improve the quality and &quot;D&amp;Dness&quot; of the games.While all that sounds kind of sucky, it wouldn't really be much different if different companies held the rights . . . other than we might actually get quality movies.&nbsp; The only way (that I see) for WotC to keep a lot of control over these sorts of projects is to somehow regain the rights and then spin off their own film and game production companies, like Marvel did with films.I don't really care who makes the movies . . . other than someone who can actually make a good film.&nbsp; That'd be awesome.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 5433017, member: 18182"] To my knowledge, the current D&D live action movie rights are with Silver Pictures. Sweetpea Pictures might have rights too, not sure. Sweetpea is the company of the dude with huge brass balls who walked into TSR's offices with no real experience in the industry whatsoever, and walked out with the rights to the D&D movies. He then made a terrible movie with a moderate budget and effects. He co-produced it with Joe Silver, and Silver has been the major producer on the second film, and the upcoming third film, "Book of Vile Darkness". WotC has no (or very little) control over these films, but the producers are working with WotC to get the "details" right and WotC is promoting the film, as it helps promote their products. However, the first two movies were crap, and the third is likely to be as well. Animated movies are a different story (I believe), as I don't think Silver Pictures had anything to do with the terrible animated Dragonlance movie released a year or so ago. Not really sure if anybody has exclusive rights. The video game rights are currently held by Atari, and all announced projects . . . all two of them, "Neverwinter" and "Daggerdale" are Atari games. Whether their rights will soon expire or not, I don't know, haven't heard anything. WotC has very little input on the games as well, but the development houses often coordinate with WotC to try and improve the quality and "D&Dness" of the games. While all that sounds kind of sucky, it wouldn't really be much different if different companies held the rights . . . other than we might actually get quality movies. The only way (that I see) for WotC to keep a lot of control over these sorts of projects is to somehow regain the rights and then spin off their own film and game production companies, like Marvel did with films. I don't really care who makes the movies . . . other than someone who can actually make a good film. That'd be awesome. [/QUOTE]

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