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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8041005" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>I like to speculate and to imagine the future of the D&D franchise, for example to guess the look of the Heroes of the Dragonlance if were a Disney production.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://variety.com/2017/film/news/paramount-hasbro-sign-5-year-distribution-production-pact-1202606260/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>What will happen when the deal Hasbro-Paramount ends? I guess both will continue working together in some projects linked with the "Hasbroverse", but maybe Hasbro would want to work with another company for titles linked with some D&D world. We have to remember the blockbuster Marvel cinematic universte started thanks Paramount, before Marvel to be bought by Disney.</p><p></p><p>Hasbro could buy more companies, but we will can't know. These matters are secret to avoid speculations in the stock market. Hasbro could buy Mattel but they didn't agree. Maybe it could be possible in the future. </p><p></p><p>I remember when Mattel created the new line of dolls "Ever After High" about the children of the fairy tales characters Disney didn't like because it thought they could be rival for its franchises of Disney princesses. Disney and Mattel "broke" and Hasbro could to sell toys of Disney franchises, for example Descendents, the movies (now trilogy) about the children of Disney heroes and villains. I wonder about Hasbro don't dare to repeat the same mistake, and not creating new IPs as potential rivals of Disney franchises (marvel, star wars...). </p><p></p><p>Pixar's Onwarld is practically a continous wink to D&D fandom. Something like the hidden message: "We could produce the ultimate D&D movie". And we can't forget D&D is popular now thanks "Stranger Things".</p><p></p><p>Of course Paramount, Disney, Warner and Netflix can produce their own medieval fantasy titles, not only thanks D&D popularity but more by the boom of Game of Thrones and the Witcher. </p><p></p><p>My theory is the plans for D&D is making more money with media productions and videogames than the classic TTRPGs. </p><p></p><p>Hasbro's Enternaiment-One could produce horror-movies set in Ravenloft, the demiplane of the dread, but maybe the scripets could ask some retcons of the setting, for example to allow zones with XX or XXI technology, for example an underground secret laboratory.</p><p></p><p>My doubts are about if Paramount will keep the exclusive rights for the D&D adaptated or theses could be distributed into different companies, for example one with FR, other with Greyhawk and other with Mystara. </p><p></p><p>Hasbro also has got contacts with different Asian companies. I guess WotC will ask advice if it wants to publishes new settings inspired in the different cultures. But this could cause some conflict because Chinese, Koreans and Japaneses have got different points of view about themself and their neighbours. </p><p></p><p>Other hypothesis is if Hasbro notice crossovers with D&D can make money, then to add some changes in the lore to allow canon adventures, for example Ash Willians (Evil Dead) suffering his own weekend in the hell (Ravenloft), or famous Capcom characters visiting a time sphere (parallel world) of Mystara. Would you allow those crossovers as canon?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 8041005, member: 6802378"] I like to speculate and to imagine the future of the D&D franchise, for example to guess the look of the Heroes of the Dragonlance if were a Disney production. [URL unfurl="true"]https://variety.com/2017/film/news/paramount-hasbro-sign-5-year-distribution-production-pact-1202606260/[/URL] What will happen when the deal Hasbro-Paramount ends? I guess both will continue working together in some projects linked with the "Hasbroverse", but maybe Hasbro would want to work with another company for titles linked with some D&D world. We have to remember the blockbuster Marvel cinematic universte started thanks Paramount, before Marvel to be bought by Disney. Hasbro could buy more companies, but we will can't know. These matters are secret to avoid speculations in the stock market. Hasbro could buy Mattel but they didn't agree. Maybe it could be possible in the future. I remember when Mattel created the new line of dolls "Ever After High" about the children of the fairy tales characters Disney didn't like because it thought they could be rival for its franchises of Disney princesses. Disney and Mattel "broke" and Hasbro could to sell toys of Disney franchises, for example Descendents, the movies (now trilogy) about the children of Disney heroes and villains. I wonder about Hasbro don't dare to repeat the same mistake, and not creating new IPs as potential rivals of Disney franchises (marvel, star wars...). Pixar's Onwarld is practically a continous wink to D&D fandom. Something like the hidden message: "We could produce the ultimate D&D movie". And we can't forget D&D is popular now thanks "Stranger Things". Of course Paramount, Disney, Warner and Netflix can produce their own medieval fantasy titles, not only thanks D&D popularity but more by the boom of Game of Thrones and the Witcher. My theory is the plans for D&D is making more money with media productions and videogames than the classic TTRPGs. Hasbro's Enternaiment-One could produce horror-movies set in Ravenloft, the demiplane of the dread, but maybe the scripets could ask some retcons of the setting, for example to allow zones with XX or XXI technology, for example an underground secret laboratory. My doubts are about if Paramount will keep the exclusive rights for the D&D adaptated or theses could be distributed into different companies, for example one with FR, other with Greyhawk and other with Mystara. Hasbro also has got contacts with different Asian companies. I guess WotC will ask advice if it wants to publishes new settings inspired in the different cultures. But this could cause some conflict because Chinese, Koreans and Japaneses have got different points of view about themself and their neighbours. Other hypothesis is if Hasbro notice crossovers with D&D can make money, then to add some changes in the lore to allow canon adventures, for example Ash Willians (Evil Dead) suffering his own weekend in the hell (Ravenloft), or famous Capcom characters visiting a time sphere (parallel world) of Mystara. Would you allow those crossovers as canon? [/QUOTE]
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