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<blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2662710" data-attributes="member: 30035">I've never read any Dragonlance, so I don't know if I'd want to see a movie based on it, but I can definitely state that the fact that it's a D&amp;D product would not automatically get me into the theatre. There would have to be a lot more to it, like good scripting, a good director, a reputable studio, a sufficient budget, good actors, good special effects, a good story...Like almost any other adaptation of literature, they would have to change the story to get it to the screen. Moviemakers don't make those changes we all hate just to annoy us; they make them because movies and books are two different things and one can never exactly reproduce the effects of the other (and I don't mean special fx). I know one thing that would actually turn me away from a Dragonlance movie: having the author do the screenplay. While there are some authors who also know how to write screenplays, they are few, and generally if they're good prose writers they probably won't be good screenwriters. Screenplays are very different from novels - have you ever seen one? There's very little description, very little emotion. It's just a lot of stage direction and dialog. Not much fun to read. Sorry to stomp on your fantasy, Kristivas, but it always makes me a little irritated when I see people saying &quot;Wouldn't it be wonderful if my favorite books were turned into a movie and the author wrote the script&quot;. No, it probably wouldn't be wonderful. The Dragonlance movie you have in your head is far better than anything Hollywood could or would ever produce.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="sniffles, post: 2662710, member: 30035"] I've never read any Dragonlance, so I don't know if I'd want to see a movie based on it, but I can definitely state that the fact that it's a D&D product would [i]not[/i] automatically get me into the theatre. There would have to be a lot more to it, like good scripting, a good director, a reputable studio, a sufficient budget, good actors, good special effects, a good story... Like almost any other adaptation of literature, they would have to change the story to get it to the screen. Moviemakers don't make those changes we all hate just to annoy us; they make them because movies and books are two different things and one can never exactly reproduce the effects of the other (and I don't mean special fx). I know one thing that would actually turn me away from a Dragonlance movie: having the author do the screenplay. While there are some authors who also know how to write screenplays, they are few, and generally if they're good prose writers they probably won't be good screenwriters. Screenplays are very different from novels - have you ever seen one? There's very little description, very little emotion. It's just a lot of stage direction and dialog. Not much fun to read. Sorry to stomp on your fantasy, Kristivas, but it always makes me a little irritated when I see people saying "Wouldn't it be wonderful if my favorite books were turned into a movie and the author wrote the script". No, it probably wouldn't be wonderful. The Dragonlance movie you have in your head is far better than anything Hollywood could or would ever produce. :) [/QUOTE]

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