Lucy Lawless as Goldmoon in animated DL

[Klaus]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=36881

That says the DL movie will only be 90 minutes. I was hoping it would be at least 2 hours.

It's very rare for an animation to be 2 hours long. 90 minutes is at the top end of animation length.

 

[Ranger REG]

It's very rare for an animation to be 2 hours long. 90 minutes is at the top end of animation length.

Yet another reason why I prefer live-action.

Sighs. Fine.

 

[reapersaurus]

I Love Lucy.

Personally, I couldn't stand Dragonlance, but with Lucy on board, I'm in. She can do ANYTHING. I bet she can fly and shoot lasers from her eyes. No such thing as too much Lucy Lawless.

Quoted for truth.

I still got yer back, barsoom. :thumbsup:

 

[Nightfall]

Ranger,

Would you be more dissappointed if it turned out like Swamp Thing than a possibly half-way decent animated movie?

Also what's more epic than LotR? Morte D'Arthur, The Stand, the Illiad, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Maginbogin(sp), Book of Kells, the Bible. Those are pretty epic stuff.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Also what's more epic than LotR?

Dragonlance of course!!!

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I agree that The Lord of the Rings is, in terms of quality of prose, plotting, and characterisation, about on the level of the Dragonlance Chronicles.

The difference is that I used to like Dragonlance.

I don't like either of them much now, but at least I remember Dragonlance giving me enjoyment as a child (I was ten or so when I first read them).

 

[Ranger REG]

Ranger,

Would you be more dissappointed if it turned out like Swamp Thing than a possibly half-way decent animated movie?

Are you telling me I have to choose the lesser of two evils, because there is no ideal third option that Narnia, Harry Potter, and LOTR have taken?

Is that the kind of treatment Hollywood put on Dragonlance? If so, I offer from the bottom of my heart: none of the above.

Also what's more epic than LotR? ... the Bible. Those are pretty epic stuff.

Whoa. Are you getting all Jehovah's Witness on me?

*hides under the bed*

Just as you want me to read those classical epic literatures -- albeit in their original, not-graphic-novel treatment -- that are above my own reading list, I want the same for Dragonlance when it comes to cinematic treatment.

 

[librarius_arcana]

Also what's more epic than LotR? the Bible.

Sing to brother

 

[Nightfall]

Dragonlance of course!!!

You deserve the pie in face award Gal.

And no I'm not but the Bible (as a literal source) is a pretty epic book. Floods, deaths, wars, famines, kings, queens, murder, sucidice, divinities, warring spirits, etc. That's what I'm talking about.

What I'm telling you Ranger is that fact is Hollywood doesn't shove money under a movie unless they're reasonable sure it will do well. See Batman and Superman for examples...

Classic cinema is kind of dead. It's all about money and who can fund it.

 

[Klaus]

Sing to brother

But the writing is harder than Tolkien!