Way back in ages past when I had the money for it. I was on board to help with funding the live action recreation of the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon episode Tower of Tardos from the same crew who did the short live action piece that was packed with the cartoon series "deluxe" DVD. The preliminaries looked great and the kids they got for the roles looked the parts overall.

Unfortunately it folded due various problems.

Quote from: RunningLaser;846473I recall reading an article about that movie, in Dragon I think, where they had a brief interview with the director.  IIRC, that was his first movie.  He was just a huge D&D fan who wanted to make a D&D movie and convinced people he could.  The end result was he got his D&D campaign made into a film.

I wish I recalled more of the article.  The director was pretty adamant that he be the one who did it, not just sell the story.  I think there was a part where the producer gave him $100k to direct a small car chase scene or something and if it came out good, he'd greenlight it.  The rest is history there.

Does anyone else recall that article, or am I just dreaming this up?

but if i remember right whernt there all sorts of things that got in the way like being forced to use an older script then the one he had planed to use ?

Quote from: kosmos1214;846623but if i remember right whernt there all sorts of things that got in the way like being forced to use an older script then the one he had planed to use ?

Theres been all sorts of stories about what happened. What is known is that Solomon got some near iron clad in perpetum exclusive rights to make D&D movies from Williams. His rights apparently do not extend to Dragonlance.

Some of the stories about the WOTC execs interfering were being spread by White Wolf staff so take that with a grain of salt. They used the same excuse for anything they did with WOTC property that failed. "WOTC told us to!" Which, considering the totally moronic things WOTC was doing around that time. Might well be true. Right and left they were screwing up and screwing with projects. Theres a reason why Hasbro keeps them on a tight leash now.

And he certainly was not under such restrictions when he made Book of Vile Darkness.

An option for Magic: The Gathering has been sold in recent years too, but I fully expect that film to turn out better than D&D.

It'd be cool to see the movie done in the vein of the Princess Bride- there's the gaming group around the table, then focusing in on what they are actually doing in game.

Quote from: RunningLaser;846730It'd be cool to see the movie done in the vein of the Princess Bride- there's the gaming group around the table, then focusing in on what they are actually doing in game.

That would be a hoot. They would need a cool actor to serve as the narrator such as James Earl Jones or Ian McShane.

My first thought is here we go again. I hope I am wrong.

From a newspost over on RPGG.

QuoteIn our regular "Obligatory Dungeons & Dragons (5th Edition) News" column, this weeks first news bit is only casually related to the rpg itself (yep, scraping the bottom of the barrel this time): the ongoing lawsuit between Hasbro and Sweetpea Entertainment has been settled and the planned D&D Movie will be made by Warner Bros with involvement from both Wizards of the Coast and Sweetpea. The film is going to be set in the Forgotten Realms and will be based on a script by David Leslie Johnson, based on Chainmail of all things. As part of the settlement, WotC will regain all rights to future Dungeons & Dragons productions.

Sounds like WOTC finally got D&D rights back?