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Dark Wizard
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 21 Jan 2014 : 21:48:13
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| A cartoon about characters (overly dramatically) playing MtG in the vein of YuGi-Oh would be hilarious and probably become a cult classic, as YuGi-Oh has. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 22 Jan 2014 : 12:59:15
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Originally posted by Dark Wizard
A cartoon about characters (overly dramatically) playing MtG in the vein of YuGi-Oh would be hilarious and probably become a cult classic, as YuGi-Oh has.
To each his own, I understand. But if they'd do something like this, I'd have to pass. And people who look down on anything D&D related (I know, MtG is not D&D, but they're run by the same "mother ship") would likely continue to do so. IMO, of course. |
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Dark Wizard
Senior Scribe
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830 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jan 2014 : 19:57:07
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The silly show probably did a lot to sell the game (and increase the profile of the game/setting/franchise), just saying. People who look down on genre stuff will continue to look down in it regardless if it's Oscar winning. They will continue to think of it as childish and juvenile regardless of quality. And stuff like card games, RPGs, and superheroes were originally designed for children and young adults and should continue to be. It can also double up by offering enough sophistication for more mature audiences, but it need not be serious grim dark stuff to appeal. Just as many of the Pixar films are generally lauded for being accessible for kids while watchable and meaningful for adults.
The "meta-game" perspective has been a long running concept (D&D Cartoon with real world kids transported to the fantasy world via a theme park ride).
More recently along the same lines is Gundam Build Fighters (YouTube Link). An anime based around people building Gundam (toy) models (aka fandom) set in the "real world", at least a setting closer to the real world than any of the science fiction Gundam animes.
Then again, I'm not advocating for such, but wouldn't turn my nose at it by default either. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
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Posted - 24 Jan 2014 : 14:39:27
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| I agree with Dark Wizard, personally I think such a show might do a lot to popularize the realms especially to the younger generation. |
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Entromancer
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 24 Jan 2014 : 23:25:53
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This calls for the skills of a veteran, award-winning actor stage-trained on Shakespeare with fantasy and period genre experience... what about Jeremy Irons, perfect candidate to bring some gravitas to the project.
Add another book/TV show to RPG license list:
- Game of Thrones has the Song of Ice and Fire RPG from Green Ronin. They re-released the game with an updated cover (the Game of Thrones Edition) after the TV premier and sales picked up. This is actually the second system for a GoT RPG, an earlier one was based on the d20 system.
Game of Thrones also has a living card game, though I don't know which came first: the RPG or the cards.
The Brotherhood of the Griffin is what I'd like to see adapted. It's got some grit with the Chessentan politics, Jheshri's backstory, and Tchazzar's insanity. Plus it has dragons. Two elements of Game of Thrones. Something else that distinguishes GoT from the other big fantasy franchises (Rings/Hobbit and Potter) is unique nonhuman races in the White Walkers and Children of the Forest. The Brotherhood novels deal with genasi and dragonborn, two types of fantasy races not really represented in cinema. Therefore, due to the popularity of Game of Thrones, I believe that the Brotherhood's tales are the best direction for WotC/Hasbro's next shot at a DnD movie. |
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Madpig
Learned Scribe
Finland
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Posted - 27 Jan 2014 : 08:47:48
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Originally posted by Entromancer
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Originally posted by Dark Wizard
This calls for the skills of a veteran, award-winning actor stage-trained on Shakespeare with fantasy and period genre experience... what about Jeremy Irons, perfect candidate to bring some gravitas to the project.
Add another book/TV show to RPG license list:
- Game of Thrones has the Song of Ice and Fire RPG from Green Ronin. They re-released the game with an updated cover (the Game of Thrones Edition) after the TV premier and sales picked up. This is actually the second system for a GoT RPG, an earlier one was based on the d20 system.
Game of Thrones also has a living card game, though I don't know which came first: the RPG or the cards.
The Brotherhood of the Griffin is what I'd like to see adapted. It's got some grit with the Chessentan politics, Jheshri's backstory, and Tchazzar's insanity. Plus it has dragons. Two elements of Game of Thrones. Something else that distinguishes GoT from the other big fantasy franchises (Rings/Hobbit and Potter) is unique nonhuman races in the White Walkers and Children of the Forest. The Brotherhood novels deal with genasi and dragonborn, two types of fantasy races not really represented in cinema. Therefore, due to the popularity of Game of Thrones, I believe that the Brotherhood's tales are the best direction for WotC/Hasbro's next shot at a DnD movie.
I may be repeting myself, but only viable course is to do Drizzt movie. He is only character outside the FR-community who has enough popularity to gather large audiances. Secoind, althoug distant possibility is base the movie on BG-computergames. I understand that many scribes would see somekind of less well known hero, but thats just too risky for Hasbro. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 27 Jan 2014 : 14:18:05
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Originally posted by Madpig
I may be repeting myself, but only viable course is to do Drizzt movie. He is only character outside the FR-community who has enough popularity to gather large audiances. Secoind, althoug distant possibility is base the movie on BG-computergames. I understand that many scribes would see somekind of less well known hero, but thats just too risky for Hasbro.
Less risky than taking a game without any characters at all and making a movie out of it? Less risky than taking an existing book and making something practically unrecognizable out of it? Less risky than making yet another version of a movie that's already been made more than once? These are all things we've seen from Hollywood. |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 28 Jan 2014 : 13:54:25
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For a D&D film, yes, the wisest thing to do is to go for Drizzt. The Drizzt books have sold substantially more copies than D&D itself has sold (across all editions) and he is the only D&D-related character who is well-known in the general SF and fantasy community (even Elminster is a very, very distant second).
Once you have established the FORGOTTEN REALMS as a setting for films, you can move away into having different characters, like Disney did for the Marvel characters and are planning to do so for STAR WARS. But to get to that stage, you need to bring out the commercial big guns first, regardless of how the character is received critically or amongst the hardcore fans. Hardcore TRANSFORMERS fans didn't want Michael Bay coming anywhere near the franchise and hate the films, but even they might have to acknowledge that TRANSFORMERS becoming a household name again and getting new comics, video games and cartoon series (some of them very good) out of it eventually made it worthwhile, and eventually we might still get a good film out of the franchise once Bay has moved on.
Sometimes you have to play the long game. And to be honest, as long as a half-decent writer and director are involved, you can turn THE CRYSTAL SHARD (and most of the early Drizzt books) into a perfectly enjoyable action-adventure popcorn movie.
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Game of Thrones also has a living card game, though I don't know which came first: the RPG or the cards.
The card game from Fantasy Flight started coming out in 2002. The Guardians of Order RPG was 2005 and the Green Ronin one was 2009. |
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CorellonsDevout
Great Reader
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Posted - 30 Jan 2014 : 01:49:51
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| Not that interested in a D&D movie. I mean, in some ways it would be cool, but there are too many chances for it to go wrong. |
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