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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 7713393" data-attributes="member: 6801060">Production companies are going to look for sequel possibilities, and with fantasy plotlines, in this post-LotR world, they are going to be looking for a trilogy. As the property is already a trilogy, well, that pretty much says it all.Anyway, how in the world could you pare down the entire Dragonlance storyline so that it would fit into a single movie of reasonable length, without it becoming both incomprehensible and losing the plotlines which made it popular in the first place? I have a feeling that any attempt to do that would alienate more of the general audience than a trilogy would. After all, in this day and age, audiences are perfectly fine with stories that play out over several movies (see: Marvel).  In any case, I have a feeling they would be adding more, not less. It certainly wouldn't hurt to incorporate at least the bare bones of some of the plot of Dragons of the Highlord Skies into any prospective second film, simply to keep it from being jarring when we cut back to the western group of the main party, who we haven't seen since Tarsis, all of a sudden being inexplicably on a boat, with a dragon orb, and being chased by a white dragon. That jump cut was jarring enough in the novel; I don't see how it could be done in a movie without totally confusing the audience (or settling for a disappointing cop-out by giving a verbal recap of what happened).</blockquote>

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