... poor Jeremy Irons. Oh, don't mind me, just going through memory lane, is all.

The IMDB listing is just a fan/gossip post.

I like the D&D movie idea laid out in this blog post, especially the part about making Castle Greyhawk the real "star."  Too bad it (or something like it) would never happen.

Quote from: Dumarest;1006299Does the name D&D attached to a film lend it box office cachet or does it instead act as a warning of a low-quality cash-grab?

For me the latter. D&D is not something that translates well to screen. If it's Dragonlance, I'll pass. I can wait for an actual Elric movie, not some knock off with a golden spray tan.

Quote from: Beldar;1006254I would be pleasantly surprised if I'm wrong, but I think it's got about as much chance as an ice elemental in Baator. If they double the quality of the previously films, they might have something good enough to me riffed on the next MST3K season.

Who would have thought that a film adaptation of some largely forgotten stoned 70s sf comic by the director of Slither and Super would end up being bigger than Jesus?

Quote from: Krimson;1006420For me the latter. D&D is not something that translates well to screen. If it's Dragonlance, I'll pass. I can wait for an actual Elric movie, not some knock off with a golden spray tan.

Are you suggesting DL is a rip off of Elric? I'm not seeing that even remotely.

Quote from: Voros;1006438Are you suggesting DL is a rip off of Elric? I'm not seeing that even remotely.

My first experience with Dragonlance some 30ish years ago was yes, Raistlin came across as an Elric knock off - without a decent sword.

Ah yeah, I see that.

I'd love to see a well done D&D movie. They need to spend the money on hiring top notch writers and director or it will be a flop.

I don't think hiring good directors and writers is that expensive, most modern blockbusters like the Marvel and SW films scoop up talented arthouse directors and writers. I can't imagine James Gun or even Peter Jackson and Nolan demanded huge salaries for a shot at getting their breakthrough blockbusters made.

Quote from: Voros;1006438Are you suggesting DL is a rip off of Elric? I'm not seeing that even remotely.

Dragonlance is an LotR knockoff with Mormon underpinnings replacing the Catholic ones and starring expies of Elric and Spock.

I read the first 6 books in grade school, middle school, so I thought DL was pretty cool back then. But even at the time, everyone I knew who'd read them thought it was poor man's Tolkien. I tried reading the Chronicles again (a decade or so) later, and the writing didn't hold my interest. Maybe the Twins books would be better, since it is a better story overall.

But the setting does have merits:
Draconians! They are the proto-dragonborn, but awesome in their own right.

Dragon-riding knights! Lots of them! With Dragonlances! 'nuff said...

Tinker gnomes were kind of amusing. Minotaurs, meh.

Kender and gully dwarves are of course, terrible. And all the other bland Tolkein-wanna-be stuff was just par for the course in the 80's fantasy.

But the setting hasn't been supported by Wizards of the Coast in any meaningful way since 3rd edition. Which makes me wonder, why they would drop the movie on us, when every thing else they put out screams Forgotten Realms?

Quote from: Armchair Gamer;1006458Dragonlance is an LotR knockoff with Mormon underpinnings replacing the Catholic ones and starring expies of Elric and Spock.

For sure, with a helping of 80s hippie crossed with big hair hotties.

Quote from: Haffrung;1006175Opening scene (...)

Nice.
But I don't remember Dragons of Autumn Twilight being that "Guardians-y".

"I am ... Caramon!"
Rocket Burrfoot?

Quote from: Voros;1006485For sure, with a helping of 80s hippie crossed with big hair hotties.

you say that as if it were a bad thing...