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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7736372" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>DnD is <em>vastly</em> more niche than Iron Man, and Iron Man made the money it did because of the cast and the director, and the lucky fact that they didn't have a finished script, so it had to be largely improvised. </p><p></p><p>A DnD movie has to, first and above all, focus on telling a good story. Any thought of setting has to serve that. The Dragonlance Chronicles are the only set of DnD stories I know of that were widely popular even outside of gamers, but WoTC will have the only real numbers on that, and it may well be that a studio, writer, director, or combination thereof would rather create a world for the story to take place in, that has room for any kind of dnd story they want to tell. </p><p></p><p>If we had any reason to think that anything we'd heard before was going to remain the same, I'd say that Eberron is the best setting fit for a movie with the names we've heard attached and the tone they've said they want to go with, if they didn't go with DL for that classic Dragonlance story. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That would just come across as a Jumanji ripoff, IMO. Also, Jumanji worked because of Robin Williams and incredible luck with the kid actors, and because of the weird juxtaposition of the game elements with the real world. </p><p></p><p>I can't think of anything I want from a DnD movie more fervently than for it to not do anything like any of that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 7736372, member: 6704184"] DnD is [I]vastly[/I] more niche than Iron Man, and Iron Man made the money it did because of the cast and the director, and the lucky fact that they didn't have a finished script, so it had to be largely improvised. A DnD movie has to, first and above all, focus on telling a good story. Any thought of setting has to serve that. The Dragonlance Chronicles are the only set of DnD stories I know of that were widely popular even outside of gamers, but WoTC will have the only real numbers on that, and it may well be that a studio, writer, director, or combination thereof would rather create a world for the story to take place in, that has room for any kind of dnd story they want to tell. If we had any reason to think that anything we'd heard before was going to remain the same, I'd say that Eberron is the best setting fit for a movie with the names we've heard attached and the tone they've said they want to go with, if they didn't go with DL for that classic Dragonlance story. That would just come across as a Jumanji ripoff, IMO. Also, Jumanji worked because of Robin Williams and incredible luck with the kid actors, and because of the weird juxtaposition of the game elements with the real world. I can't think of anything I want from a DnD movie more fervently than for it to not do anything like any of that. [/QUOTE]
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