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Message: <blockquote data-quote="michaeljpastor" data-source="post: 9260480" data-attributes="member: 81243">Additional comments after watching the video:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tracy and Margaret were all about it - given the kerfuffle that occurred with the authors in the recent past, I would see them wanting to avoid any future kerfuffles.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I'm writing for my old boss Michael Lombardo (?) at HBO and the team at eOne - I think that's the most significant point.  Development deals in Hollywood are all about relationships, and rise and fall based on them, and those relationships were severed with the sale of eOne.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I don't know if HBO was the intended  studio/carrier, but given how crappy the Warner/Discovery merger turned out, HBO is in a period of retractment until it all falls out.  I wouldn't bank on them as a partner (especially given how far out a release of such a series would be given how much post-production is needed with all the SFX involved).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Joe's Q rating is diminished nowadays, from everything that's occurred with DCEU to his divorce (stupid and unfortunate, but true).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Dragonlance books are very old and not on the top of the zeitgeist list, quite frankly.</li> </ul>Additional observation:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Streaming Golden Age is over, and Joe was looking at a multi-season show.  When two seasons are not a guarantee even when a season has high ratings or reviews, his scope may have been too big a bite to take.  Season Twos being signed before a single episode is aired are going to be happening less frequently presumably.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fantasy epic saturation (particularly with D&D) - there's a lot of fantasy movies/series out now (which I, of course, don't mind one bit).  D&D has Honor Amongst Thieves and tangentially, Critical Role.  Despite the objective numbers from theaters, I think Honor Amongst Thieves is going to get a sequel as it was received well and its numbers on streaming are really good.  I could see WOTC and Hasbro wanting to be conservative and wait-and-see and bank on the goodwill that the movie produced rather than risk it on an "unknown" quantity.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">WOTC is going to be very distracted with the 50th anniversary this year and they absolutely positively must get this right, or any development deals will be for naught.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Baldur's Gate 3 has a better cachet right now than Dragonlance.  I predict that there will be a BG3 development deal soon, and it will be announced during the 50th anniversary year.  They'd be idiots not to (and expect a BG3 splatbook to come with it).</li> </ul></blockquote>

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