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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TexasBEAST" data-source="post: 4091823" data-attributes="member: 61431">Rouse,I agree wholeheartedly that "The Legend of Drizzt", and specifically "The Icewind Dale Trilogy", seems to be the best bet for a blockbuster for the masses.  I don't game (don't shoot me!), but I've been following the drow ranger since the first edition of The Crystal Shard, and there's plenty of quality material there, in his character arc alone.  Salvatore doesn't load his stories down with D&D-isms, which makes them very accessible and relatable to complete newbs.  And that should hold true for film audiences, as well.For what it's worth, I have taken extensive, detailed notes of the texts' descriptions of the characters' personal appearances, wardrobe and weapons, and locations/set pieces from all of Salvatore's Forgotten Realms novels and novellas.  If faithfulness to the books is a priority here (as it should be), then such notes should prove valuable to any film crew's art department.  In fact, I initially started assembling these notes back in the '80s specifically so I could make more accurate drawings of scenes from the books than what I saw on the books' cover art, and even when I gave up on graphic arts myself, I still kept up the note-taking, just in case they might be useful in some other medium.  Looks like we might have found it.(Honestly, I kept obsessively taking notes on the books for nerdly debating purposes with other fans, mostly.  But this rationalization sounds a lot better!)While I do not have professional training or experience with scriptwriting, I would love to pitch in with that process, as well.  For the last several years, I've been reading passages from the books of "The Icewind Dale Trilogy" specifically with a virtual eye toward how the scenes should look on screen, transitions between scenes, how to incorporate the "Drizzt Diaries" in some non-brow-beating manner, etc.If you think there's an opening for a guy like me, holler.  Roar.  Blast me with a psionic communiqué . . .  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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