If they ever do a Drizzt movie....

[Zulithe]

Let's see how he does with the Hobbit film and it's "sequel" first.

 

[Green Knight]

Thinking better, yeah, it's better to not make a Drizzt movie. Why would we want that?Making a movie based on successful novels and famous characters is really a bad idea. Instead, they should create whole new and original characters to represent all the cool aspects of D&D, in a completelly new and original setting. It would certainly be a blast!!!

Right?

The D&D movie was horrible because it was a badly written piece of garbage with a talentless hack at the helm, not because it created all-new characters. In other words, if the same people behind the D&D movie were behind a Drizzt movie, would that Drizzt movie not suck big time? Just look at the recent Dragonlance animated movie. It's a movie based on successful novels and famous characters, and yet... it really, really sucked. Previously successful characters, all-new characters, it doesn't matter if the people making it can't tell their head from their ass.

 

[horacethegrey]

I'd be up for a Drizzt movie, provided they only adapt The Dark Elf and Icewind Dale trilogies respectively. The others I can do without, since by that time R.A. Salvatore's prose skill takes a sharp nose dive and the stories suck as a result.

Don't know if Del Toro would be the right guy to direct a Forgotten Realms flick, but let me praise him again for those divine lookin elves.

 

[John Crichton]

I'd be up for a Drizzt movie, provided they only adapt The Dark Elf and Icewind Dale trilogies respectively. The others I can do without, since by that time R.A. Salvatore's prose skill takes a sharp nose dive and the stories suck as a result.

Don't know if Del Toro would be the right guy to direct a Forgotten Realms flick, but let me praise him again for those divine lookin elves.

Yup. Just start with Homeland and go from there.

You could even combine Exile and Sojorn if you really wanted to.

Or, just go with the order of publishing and go for the big action with the Icewind Dale Trilogy. Do the Dark Elf stuff as a prequel if there is interest.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

NOW, that´s a drow!

But, but... Dark Elves are Black!

That's a Shadowelf.

 

[Klaus]

...PLEASE, call Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan´s Labyrinth) as director - see this elf from his new Hellboy movie:

NOW, that´s a drow!

Looks more like a Shadar-Kai (the Shadow-based fey), but I get your point.

Specially since that very same character does some wicked two-sword moves in the Hellboy 2 trailer.

 

[HeinorNY]

The D&D movie was horrible because it was a badly written piece of garbage with a talentless hack at the helm, not because it created all-new characters. In other words, if the same people behind the D&D movie were behind a Drizzt movie, would that Drizzt movie not suck big time? Just look at the recent Dragonlance animated movie. It's a movie based on successful novels and famous characters, and yet... it really, really sucked. Previously successful characters, all-new characters, it doesn't matter if the people making it can't tell their head from their ass.

So the problem is the producers and not Drizzt himself? Thanks, I'm feeling better now.

 

[Green Knight]

So the problem is the producers and not Drizzt himself? Thanks, I'm feeling better now.

I didn't say that. I was just pointing out that the D&D movie wasn't bad because it had new characters, but because it was just badly made. Besides, what are now famous characters were at one point all-new characters.

 

[Ebon Shar]

Thinking better, yeah, it's better to not make a Drizzt movie. Why would we want that?Making a movie based on successful novels and famous characters is really a bad idea. Instead, they should create whole new and original characters to represent all the cool aspects of D&D, in a completelly new and original setting. It would certainly be a blast!!!

Right?

It is far easier to screw up a movie based on "successful novels and famous characters" than it is a movie with original characters. All they have to do is tweak the character to make filming easier and the've alienated their fanbase. Just imagine, if you will: "Black skin? We can't have that. We'd be called racist. Make it green skin, like that chick from Star Trek. The geeks eat that crap up!" ...or... "A giant Black Panther from a statue? Nobody will buy that. Make it a sarcastic midget who jumps out of a magic sack. Ha Ha Ha, I pee myself just thinking about it!"

 

[Brown Jenkin]

...PLEASE, call Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan´s Labyrinth) as director - see this elf from his new Hellboy movie:

NOW, that´s a drow!

Looks like a Wraith from Stargate Atlantis to me.