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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 6684876" data-attributes="member: 6779310">What succeeds on TV and what succeeds in the Movie Theaters are not the same. Made-for-TV movies are NOT the same success formulae as for Theaters - despite the occasional crossover.The Buffy movie was a flop. The Buffy TV series was a smash hit. (and an attempt to recoup the losses.)Princess Bride worked - but it had the benefit of a VERY good story that was already accepted as literature, and an incredible cast. Elwes, Patinkin, Crystal, Shaun, Faulk, Kane, and Roussimoff  are a powerhouse cast. Even if Roussimoff is only a draw for name recognition (as Andre the Giant).Hercules and Xena are often painful to watch, as they slaughter History, Mythology, and anything else in great parodies... with rampant homoeroticism, revisionism, and really low budget effects. If anything better had been available on TV in the classic fantasy genres, they would have failed miserably.And as for HotDQ as movie plot - The Encounters version is about right for a single movie. To do the whole book would easily be a TV series.</blockquote>