Urban Arcana TV series?

[Klaus]

Whoa! That sounds mightly cool!

Department 7, anyone?

 

[Hypersmurf]

OTOH, for a fantasy series, you generally have to create new sets for everything. And probably have to shoot in New Zealand. Which then presents logistical problems, including getting extras for the show. Which is why on Xena, a large chunk of the Roman soldiers were Maoris.

I'm not seeing any downside to another fantasy series shooting in New Zealand and using a New Zealand stunt crew...?

Put me through university, that did!

-Hyp.

 

[Super Girl]

Whoa! That sounds mightly cool!

Department 7, anyone?

My thoughts exactly

 

[takyris]

I'll definitely check out Urban Arcana. It'll be interesting to see how that goes. (Um, provided it's on Space, up here in the frozen northern wilderness.)

Heroes Anonymous... I dunno. Haven't they figured out that if you try to do a live-action superhero show and don't have a movie-sized budget, you end up with Mutant X or The Greatest American Hero? I mean, no hate on either of those shows, but even if the writing is decent, the live-action guy is rarely as buff and as coordinated as he would have been in a good animated series or on the page, and that's a problem you can only really deal with AFTER you've gotten the flight, energy-blast, and crashing-through-wall effects to look good.

The best superhero live-action show to come out recently is The Tick, which, while still trying to find its balance, at least realized that the show had to be about the characters, not the effects or the glorious combat, neither of which were going to look as they did in the cartoon or the comic.

 

[JoelF]

My question about the show is what's "Worlds of Wonder"? Did WOTC get a name change without us noticing?

 

[Umbran]

My question is why this and not Forgotten Realms or any other D&D setting that has alot of things going for it? Wizards did have a FR tv show planned but it never happened.

In addition to the budgetary and logistical issues others have mentioned, thereissues of audience. The greater the difference between the real world and the fantasy world a show has, the more effort you have to put into simply getting the audience up to speed on those differences. Using a setting more akin to the mdern world means they have many "handles" the audience will already recognize. It is just easier to write stories set in worlds the audience already understands. This is important if you want non-gamers watching the show.

 

[warlord]

This isn't going to be a total Buffy clone is it?

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

(shudder)

I can't stand the Urban Arcana campaign setting for d20 Modern. Unless I hear from reputable sources that it's decent, I'm not touching this show with a 10-foot pole.

Brad

 

[Jamdin]

Isn't Worlds of Wonder the toy company the originally put out the original Teddy Ruxpin and Laser Tag before going bankrupt?

The new shows looks interesting.

 

[Desdichado]

Cost, I imagine. It's very easy and cheap to shot a TV show that is set in the modern day world. Since you can shoot pretty much anywhere.

OTOH, for a fantasy series, you generally have to create new sets for everything. And probably have to shoot in New Zealand. Which then presents logistical problems, including getting extras for the show. Which is why on Xena, a large chunk of the Roman soldiers were Maoris.

"ahem" Prague and the Czech republic.