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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 6129599" data-attributes="member: 52734"><p>The best chance for a D&D movie was, in my opinion, putting Dragonlance to screen. Unfortunately, they muffed that one with that piece of animated gak that went straight to video (and instead should have went straight to landfill). It'll be 20 years or more before anyone in Hollywood will touch it now. I mean, I see it kind of like the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077869/?ref_=sr_4" target="_blank">animated Lord of the Rings</a> film. It was 31 years before some redid it as a blockbuster.</p><p></p><p>I just don't get the sense that outside the RPG, the folks administrating D&D have much of a clue how to promote the game - and I think that translates into poor handling of the movie rights. I mean, as for D&D computer games, it didn't release the first gold box game until 1986, whereas the likes of Ultima was already in its 5th incarnation. Same thing for the MMO scene. Again, late to the party with the choose-your-own adventure book craze (and vastly inferior to the Lone Wolf books). Crash and burn card game knockoffs Spellfire and Blood Wars, too late and crummy games in themselves. While I personally liked the LBJ toys from the 80's, why in the heck haven't they had Hasbro put out a new line of D&D toys? They've had what - ten years to figure that one out? About the only thing they didn't hang themselves with was the cartoon series, and it only ended up lasting a single season. And I'm not sure I'd want to hold that up as "good entertainment".</p><p></p><p>And finally, we are talking about a franchise that has based itself stealing ideas from B movies, other folk's pulp fiction novels and whatever pop culture could be copied and have it's serial numbers filed off. For default D&D, we're not talking about a lot of original creativity here.</p><p></p><p>In short, I wouldn't hold my breath that we're ever going to see a half-way decent D&D movie. I just don't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 6129599, member: 52734"] The best chance for a D&D movie was, in my opinion, putting Dragonlance to screen. Unfortunately, they muffed that one with that piece of animated gak that went straight to video (and instead should have went straight to landfill). It'll be 20 years or more before anyone in Hollywood will touch it now. I mean, I see it kind of like the [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077869/?ref_=sr_4"]animated Lord of the Rings[/URL] film. It was 31 years before some redid it as a blockbuster. I just don't get the sense that outside the RPG, the folks administrating D&D have much of a clue how to promote the game - and I think that translates into poor handling of the movie rights. I mean, as for D&D computer games, it didn't release the first gold box game until 1986, whereas the likes of Ultima was already in its 5th incarnation. Same thing for the MMO scene. Again, late to the party with the choose-your-own adventure book craze (and vastly inferior to the Lone Wolf books). Crash and burn card game knockoffs Spellfire and Blood Wars, too late and crummy games in themselves. While I personally liked the LBJ toys from the 80's, why in the heck haven't they had Hasbro put out a new line of D&D toys? They've had what - ten years to figure that one out? About the only thing they didn't hang themselves with was the cartoon series, and it only ended up lasting a single season. And I'm not sure I'd want to hold that up as "good entertainment". And finally, we are talking about a franchise that has based itself stealing ideas from B movies, other folk's pulp fiction novels and whatever pop culture could be copied and have it's serial numbers filed off. For default D&D, we're not talking about a lot of original creativity here. In short, I wouldn't hold my breath that we're ever going to see a half-way decent D&D movie. I just don't. [/QUOTE]
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