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Joe Manganelio is Writing the D&D Movie? And Is it DRAGONLANCE?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7713415" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>There's one crucial flaw in this line of thinking: The assumption that if a studio makes "Dragons of Autumn Twilight," it has locked itself into making "Winter Night" and "Spring Dawning." That's not true at all. If "Autumn Twilight" flops, the studio can just decline to film the other two. Why not? If the movie flops, then by definition there isn't a big audience to get upset about the lack of sequels.</p><p></p><p>And that means the existence of a trilogy (in fact, multiple trilogies) is a selling point for Dragonlance, not a drawback. There's a reason we see so many remakes and sequels and prequels in the movie industry: They're safe. You've got a known audience, you know what they want, all you have to do is give it to them and take their money. If "Autumn Twilight" is a hit, the studio can ride that gravy train all the way through "Chronicles" and "Legends," six full movies' worth of steady profit. And if it fails, they can dump it and move on.</p><p></p><p>Obviously, it won't be possible to do what New Line and Peter Jackson did with "Lord of the Rings" and film all three movies at once, which means losing out on some economies of scale; but that was the exception in movie-making, not the rule. (And they <em>could</em> do that with Legends, if Chronicles does well.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 7713415, member: 58197"] There's one crucial flaw in this line of thinking: The assumption that if a studio makes "Dragons of Autumn Twilight," it has locked itself into making "Winter Night" and "Spring Dawning." That's not true at all. If "Autumn Twilight" flops, the studio can just decline to film the other two. Why not? If the movie flops, then by definition there isn't a big audience to get upset about the lack of sequels. And that means the existence of a trilogy (in fact, multiple trilogies) is a selling point for Dragonlance, not a drawback. There's a reason we see so many remakes and sequels and prequels in the movie industry: They're safe. You've got a known audience, you know what they want, all you have to do is give it to them and take their money. If "Autumn Twilight" is a hit, the studio can ride that gravy train all the way through "Chronicles" and "Legends," six full movies' worth of steady profit. And if it fails, they can dump it and move on. Obviously, it won't be possible to do what New Line and Peter Jackson did with "Lord of the Rings" and film all three movies at once, which means losing out on some economies of scale; but that was the exception in movie-making, not the rule. (And they [I]could[/I] do that with Legends, if Chronicles does well.) [/QUOTE]
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