Gary Gygax Movie?

[Dannyalcatraz]

El Mahdi:
Sean Connery!

And Alex Trebeck?

 

[tuxgeo]

Big budget star, Eh?

Jackie Chan? Will Smith? Sandra Bullock?

Andy Serkis as the handsome, windblown orc?

 

[haakon1]

Nah, you'd really want Robert Downey Jr.

Agree, but I've given Dannyalcatraz too many XP already, according to EnWorld. I say too much is not enough!

 

[haakon1]

I fear a Facebook creator movie torn between tiresome legal wrangling meets Ally McBeal drama and Jack Black and the DM's d20 of Doom.

I'm thinking "Social Network" story of creation of a multi-billion dollar hobby (end credits with mini (30 second) interviews with the creators of World of Warcraft and Fable about their D&D pasts influencing computer RPGs, and of course Stephen Colbert and Vin Diesel about growing up with D&D) and then the personal destruction of business greed. Plus cut scenes to fantasy re-tellings of classic adventures.

One scene would definitely be Arneson going to the Dew Drop Inn in real life llinois, and then a later scene of the party meeting in the Inn (filmed on the same location, minus modern accouterments).

 

[Umbran]

I think Strayton is the same guy who put out the Dragonlance movie.

I don't think this is a sign in the new film's favor. Dragonlance saw the light of day as a poorly done direct to video animated show that, I am told, kinda stank.

See the problem with doing it for 150mil and playing to the old Hollywood paradigm is that it would guarantee that this movie would never get made since no corporate studio exec would waste money on a black-hole* project like this movie.

Thus my incredulity at the article.

 

[MoxieFu]

I hope that they feature the Tomb of Horrors in the live-action segments.

Who here wouldn't like to see Justin Bieber in that sequence? Especially if he put his head in the big green head statues' mouth!

 

[MoxieFu]

Did you guys read the article linked in the OP? I quote:

"George Strayton confirmed he is that match, the scriptwriter for a $150 million movie based on Gary Gygax’s life."

Given that quote, I say I'll believe it when I see it. I wasn't arguing about what can be done with movies, in general, but responding to a statement about what the article says this movie is.

Yep Umbran, you're absolutely right, I missed it. Sorry for the confrusion.

 

[SSquirrel]

I don't think this is a sign in the new film's favor. Dragonlance saw the light of day as a poorly done direct to video animated show that, I am told, kinda stank.

Sadly enough, you were accurately informed. I wanted it to be awesome and it had a good voice cast, but it looked godawful. Anything draconian, dragon or fire was CGI and everything else was regular animation. This creates very jarring effects. Also, when you first encounter draconians in Chronicles, they are all wrapped up and you know they are mysterious, but don't know immediately that they are definitely different. When they show up as CGI vs regular animation, it's an automatic "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!" moment heh

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Sadly enough, you were accurately informed. I wanted it to be awesome and it had a good voice cast, but it looked godawful. Anything draconian, dragon or fire was CGI and everything else was regular animation. This creates very jarring effects. Also, when you first encounter draconians in Chronicles, they are all wrapped up and you know they are mysterious, but don't know immediately that they are definitely different. When they show up as CGI vs regular animation, it's an automatic "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!" moment heh

There was a LOT of that mixed animation stuff going on back then. I never really cared for it, personally.