Dragonlance the movie, staring Lucy Lawless

[Comstar]

It's about time, It's not LOTR, but it's going to have dungeons and dragons! Wounder who pays Tanis or the other characters. And what annoying twerp plays the Kender.

Granted it's NOT live action. CGI though?

Apologies if this is old news, I only saw it linked of todays Full Frontal Nerdity.

From here and followup here

Margaret Weis author of the Dragonlance novels, has posted confirmation on the Dragonlance forums that the animated movie is indeed in the works:

Dear Friends,
"I really wanted to wait until we could make the WAHOO Big Announcement on

the dragonlance movie site (which is coming any day now, so keep watch!). But since Lucy Lawless gave us away, I'll let you know what's going on. Paramount Studios is making Dragons of Autumn Twilight as a full-length, adult, animated movie. I'll let the movie site provide you with details on the director, screen play writer, animation house, and all that.

Suffice it to say, Tracy and I have been working with the production team for over a year now. They've been wonderful to work with! They've allowed us to have script approval and asked for our suggestions. They've shown us all the art work and allowed us approval on that (as well as the WoTC art director in charge of Dragonlance). We've been working with the Whitestone Council people on this as well. (Thanks, guys!)

From what I've seen, it's going to be amazing! The art is great. Hopefully some of it will be up on the movie site. And Tracy and I will be talking more about the movie and maybe bringing along some art pieces on our book tour.

Tracy and I are both very excited about this!"

Margare


Damon White Reports: Lucy Lawless has announced that she will be one of the voice talents in a new Paramount Dragonlance animated feature. The movie is based on the Dragonlance novels published by Wizards of the Coast. Lucy will voice the character Goldmoon that will sound like Xena according to her message on her site.

From the Lawless Ink:

"I just did the voice of an animated cartoon for Paramount, called Dragonlance. Obviously it's a fantasy story, with gods and monsters -- (no lesbian subtext). I never felt I nailed animated performance before, so wanted to get a handle on it.

I played a character called "Goldmoon," a Native American. We played around with accents awhile. I didn't know she was Native A till I got there and so didn't have time to research the accent (not many of those where I come from). More staccato! More commanding! More warm! Less disjointed! . . . Ummm, do you just want me to do Xena? Ahh, yes! That's it, do Xena! The voice is perfect! So warm, so commanding, so . . . yeah, yeah, let's get on with it.

It was actually really fun. At last I have done something my friends can actually watch. My son is gratified that I am not playing a bad guy. He can't stand me going to BSG every day to be mean to humans.

Oh well, it's a living!
L

[stray]

Dragonlance sucks 

If there was anything that turned me off to fantasy books, it's that.

[Signe]

I never read any of them.  The thing that put me off fantasy books were the front covers.

[schild]

Dragonlance didn't suck. Problem is, I can't imagine how it'll translate. I always felt it would make a great MMOG setting though. There's enough heroes and gods and famous monsters and shit that it would be a carnival of cameos. And hell, there's what, 100 books in the same setting and nearly in roughly the same era that could be worked in. Meh. Eberron. It still disgusts me.

[Ironwood]

Ok, I'll be the first wanker to ask :

Who's doing Raistlin ?

[Merusk]

When they say Dragonlance, I expect they only mean the first 3 novels not the 100 other books for the folks who got into it.   I thought it was as good as any other D&D novel, which isn't saying much in the grand scope of things.

[Ironwood]

Dragonlance is one of those things you enjoy when you're young and then re-read when you're old, only to realise that it's almost complete and total crap.

Further, the fact that it was based on a real D&D session grates on the nerves.  You know that if you were the DM, you'd have just summoned a Tarrasque on the whole fucking lot of them.

[schild]

I liked the Dragons of Summer Flame closing to the series. But then they resurrected it all and got me real pissed off. I want the movie to END with Chaos stomping on Tasslehoff and then Chaos lifting his foot and seeing the chicken feathers.

That would be the ultimate cliffhanger.

Then they never make the sequel. EVER. FUCKING DON'T DO IT. I DON'T WANT TO SEE FLINT AFTER THE CREDITS HANGING OUT BY A TREE EITHER. AND I SURE AS SHIT DON'T WANT TO SEE TASSLEHOFF WALK UP TO FLINT.

This won't end well.

[Ironwood]

I would prefer my own re-write, where Tasslehoff is dragged in front of the town council and has his right hand placed on a wooden block and a lead hammer brought down on his fingers again and again and again until it was pretty much a useless blob of living tissue.

At that point, they'd put out his eyes and send him to the tanty.

Don't even ask what I'd want to happen to Raistlin and Goldmoon.

Hell, the only character that was worth a damn in the books was Sturm and that's because he...

Do we have to spoiler these things ?

[schild]

Fuck no (in response to needing spoilers). Especially since I just ruined the entire series in one post.

 And fuck Sturm. Goldmoon never bothered me. Neither did Palin.

Actually, the guy I hated most in the series was Riverwind.

[Trippy]

I'm surprised WotC went with Dragonlance. They've been letting that campaign setting languish for years now in favor of more home grown ones like Forgotten Realms, presumably because they still have to cough up royalties to Weis and Hickman. I tried reading the original trilogy but never managed to get very far. If I was like 10 years younger at that time I would've ate them up. Still I have fond memories of the Gold Box series so I wish them the best of luck.

[Ironwood]

In that case, Sturm was the only character worth a damn because he got speared through the chest and died.

[Murgos]

Wait!  What?  Goldmoon was a Native American?

[Merusk]

I don't even remember Riverwind as a character, but most of the book was that throwaway to me.  Tanis, however, needs a boot up his ass. Preferably the one that stomped Tasselhoff.  Raistlin bothers me only because he's been as imitated as Drizzt over the years.   His brother, for being as big and tough as he was sure was a whiny tit, too.

Come to think of it.. the whole party was like a bunch of Emo kids in D&D land.  I wonder if they cut themselves just to so they could feel something.  Knowing that it was based on an actual D&D group just makes me sad.

[Ironwood]

Based on Native Americans, yes.

[Murgos]

I must have completely blocked that bit of non-sense out of my mind.

[schild]

How do you miss that? Look at the pictures of her (this is from a book cover):



(this is from the official ruleset game thing box):

[Ironwood]

I must have completely blocked that bit of non-sense out of my mind.

Be fair, Schild.   That's a pretty believable explanation right there.

[schild]

I must have completely blocked that bit of non-sense out of my mind.

Be fair, Schild. That's a pretty believable explanation right there.

Oh comeon. Look at her. She's riding a fucking pegasus. How can you not remember an indian riding a pegasus? :P

[stray]

So these characters were based off of Native Americans, or the entire Dragonlance setting?

[Ironwood]

Just the two characters who came from like the only Indian compound in the realm, which was moderately butchered to make way for the Dark Queen's Vagina Comb.

Or something.

[Ironwood]

Actually, you know what else bothers me ?

Riverwind and Fucking Goldmoon.

She acts like some uppity bitch because she's got a fanny and she tromps around like the fucking owns the place, putting this poor fucking scumbag into total penile arrest because he wants to put it in her so bad.  But no, she's the bitch daughter of a fucking chieftain and Riverwind can just spill his fucking jizz into the river nightly rather than come near her sainted snatch, the horrible wee peasant.  And then, when that's not bad enough, she sends him off to 'prove' his fucking devotions and the silly fuck runs straight to the nearest FUCKING DRAGONS DEN TO STEAL THE AFOREMENTIONED VAGINA COMB.  Not thinking for one second that this rancid little bitch is not worth it for one second, seeing only Elmore's perfectly drawn pussy fur in his addled little lackwit mind.  He fucking traipses off and steals the one fucking thing the DARK GODDESS will come around looking for the next time she gets her twat addled and needs to tamp it down a bit.

And then, if that's not bad enough, what does he do ?  He leads a fucking trail (like a proper Indian would) right back to his fucking village like he hasn't fucking seen Star Wars with Dead Beru all over the shop and next thing you know DARK AND EVIL TERROR is fucking melting his whole village.  And this little purse snatch of a daughter is fawning all over him like he's big man dick, having actually fucking thrown herself in front of arrows FIRED BY HER DADS MEN at this little prick.  So sure, they're saved by the hand of God and teleport right the fuck out of there just as Vice-Admiral Facemelter the dragon wanders over the fucking horizon to melt the entire Indian reservation so badly they can't even build a fucking casino.

Totally nonplussed by all of this, the bitch still spends the whole of the first  book wandering around like she's fucking queen muck, still refusing to let good ole hardwood into her vag, despite the fact that her fucking stupidity got her whole fucking Social Circle melted into fucking Horta.  NO KILL I indeed. 

AND HE TAKES IT.  HE DOESN'T SLAP THE COW INTO THE GROUND AND STOMP ON HER FACE A COUPLE OF TIMES TILL SHE'S UNRECOGNISABLE AND UNWANTED BY MAN.  EVEN FUCKING JULIET HAD THE FUCKING DECENCY TO TAKE POISON AFTER ACTING LIKE SUCH A FUCKING ICE BITCH.

AND THEN SHE FORMS HER OWN RELIGION BECOMING A NUN.


Ahem.

I didn't like Riverwind and Goldmoon much.

[stray]

I was just going to say that it read like Goosebumps (if, umm....I had actually read Goosebumps). Signe was right on about fantasy covers too (long live Frazetta though).

But that'll work, Ironwood.

[schild]

Oh, they didn't read like Goosebumps at all. People knock Dragonlance all the time, while when most of us were reading it other people were reading that Redwall bullshit. Future furries of the world unite indeed.

Fucking Redwall. Fucking Brian Jacques.

[Strazos]

I never got into Dragonlance....I'll admit a heavy preference to FR and Drizzt.

[Sky]

I liked Greyhawk as a setting. I haven't really enjoyed any of the settings since. Raistlin? Drizzt? Iuz, bitches! Scarlet Brotherhood, some Lawful Evil ass-kicking monks!

Goddamned kids.

I've never read a official D&D-based book that I enjoyed, they were all poorly-written with shabby characters. I was reading Glen Cook and Joel Rosenberg (who based his stuff loosely on D&D, since the series started with the gaming group being transported to the game world). Fuck Drizzt, a dwarf with the mind of a wheelchair-bound cripple? That's cool, and there was some decent character development, at least in the first book.

[bhodi]

The Joel Rosenburg (guardians of the flame) novels were fun, I liked them. I also liked the first few dragonlance books as a kid, re-reading them they were just okay. Somethingawful did a pretty funny bit with one of them a week or two ago.

I did like soulfire, that raistlin book. He's probably my favorite character of the lot, and entertaining, in a blatant power mad one-dimentional sort of way. Some of the tales short stories were decent, and don't forget probably the best book of the lot, the legend of huma.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Beauty in textual form.

*sniff*  That was just sheer poetry.

[WayAbvPar]

I never got into Dragonlance....I'll admit a heavy preference to FR and Drizzt.

Dear sweet baby Flying Spaghetti Monster. You must be joking. Not that Dragonlance was literature by any stretch, but the whole Drizz't thing was nothing but a frustrated gamer writing about his favorite character and furiously masturbating with each completely ridiculous power or item he gave to him. Between RA Salvatore and Rose Estes, I can't bring myself to read ANY D&D books any more.

[Rasix]

I also liked the first few dragonlance books as a kid, re-reading them they were just okay.

Heh, I also re-read them just a year or two ago after reading them all in my early teen years.  They seem to be written for that target audience. Re-reading them was simple, but enjoyable.  Kind of like a Harry Potter book, but Harry Potter books are better written.

The War of Souls trilogy was pretty decent but written, again, at not a very high level.  Some of the main protagonists were somewhat annoying (ie Tas and some emo elf prince).

[bhodi]

I don't understand the hatred for powerful protaganists in book form.

As long as they start fairly humble, I don't have a problem with a main character getting whatever sort of power they want. Hell, as long as they work for it, there is no such thing as game balance in a novel. Fuck, give them the power to move entire continents with the wave of their hand, or kill that dragon and inherit a horde the likes of which monty hall has never seen, or become partially infused with infinity. Whatever. I don't care, as long as the story's interesting.

[Polysorbate80]

Just don't end with a horribly incomprehensible failed deus-ex-machina like the "Gord the Rogue" series *shudder*

[Strazos]

I never got into Dragonlance....I'll admit a heavy preference to FR and Drizzt.

Dear sweet baby Flying Spaghetti Monster. You must be joking. Not that Dragonlance was literature by any stretch, but the whole Drizz't thing was nothing but a frustrated gamer writing about his favorite character and furiously masturbating with each completely ridiculous power or item he gave to him. Between RA Salvatore and Rose Estes, I can't bring myself to read ANY D&D books any more.

Well, keep in mind that I've only the origin series. I wasn't into that genre as a kid, and I would have hardly had the time to read all those books during college. Heck, the onyl reason I am reading those books at is because I have about 32 hours a week to burn with nothing good to do - at least I am getting paid for it.

Heck, the only reason I am reading Salvatore at all is because I've always like the FR setting, due to my heavy penchant for the Infinity Engine games.  :-D They're long, not horribly written, and enjoyable for what they are, at least to me.

[shiznitz]

The best FR series is the one about the group of Menzoberranzen drow, each book by a different author. I also recently finished The Last Mythal trilogy and enjoyed that.

[Strazos]

I just started The Cleric's Quintet, which seems good so far (I'm not far into it at all).