Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman are involved in the project.

[CivCube]

And it will be animated, too.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

A great development, and one that will hopefully lead to further work, in the manner of what Ralph Bakshi began...

 

[Strider]

Awesome, I've read almost all of the Dragonlance books I could get my hands on.

 

[eyrei]

Excellent.

 

[Zardnaar]

Dragonlance. Woot

 

[CivCube]

From the official Dragonlance site:

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!

Margaret

More details from the movie site:

The Film
An animated version of Dragons of Autumn Twlight is being produced for a worldwide commercial theatrical release.

Director
The film is being directed by Will Meugniot, whose credits include "The X-Men" and "The Real Ghostbusters".

Writer
The screenplay has been adapted by George Strayton, whose credits include "Cleopatria 2525", "Xena: Warrior Princess" and "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys".

Production Companies
The film is being produced by Toonz Animation, Commotion Pictures and Epic Level Entertainment, with conceptual artwork from Kunoichi and others. Paramount Pictures will be looking after worldwide distribution.

Release Date
Autumn 2007 (northern hemisphere)

 

[Gladi]

Bright day
Hooray!

Now let us hope it makes good money so we will see Darksword and Deathgate in the making.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Excellent. Next, the Legends series...


Voice of Tasslehoff to be done by the bloke who did Cernd, Ajantis and Lilarcor in the Baldurs Gate games. Oh dear...

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Here is a link to a series of old fan made trailers, to whet the appetite of we happy few. They are quite well made for pocket change.

http://www.dragonlanceforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8939

 

[The Last Conformist]

*Insert stab about D&D being for munchkins*

 

[Simon Darkshade]

*Orders nurses to take the patient next door, and to alert Helmut that a physical examination will be necessary*

 

[sanabas]

*Insert stab about D&D being for munchkins*

But with enough trips up and down the yellow brick road, you can become a level 37 munchkin. I'd like to see dice rolls incorporated into the movie, as that is what D&D is all about.

 

[CivCube]

The Dragonlance setting was never really well-suited for a D&D game. The metaplot involved in the novels killed any chance of interactivity.

This looks like it will be a decent movie.

 

[Paradigne]

It's GOTTA be better than the D&D movie... right???

 

[Gladi]

But with enough trips up and down the yellow brick road, you can become a level 37 munchkin. I'd like to see dice rolls incorporated into the movie, as that is what D&D is all about.

Yeah, because we all got to Freddy's Mom's basement- where he lives- and rolls dice to kill critter and roll dice to have glorius sexual encounters to masturbate our ego, because, you know, we are like, so totally disgustingly fat, filthy nobodies...

 

[eyrei]

The Dragonlance setting was never really well-suited for a D&D game. The metaplot involved in the novels killed any chance of interactivity.

This looks like it will be a decent movie.

Our last campaign was in Dragonlance, though after the first two trilogies took place. We had no interaction with characters of note until we were high level though...

 

[Taliesin]

Cool, I hope it's good. I greatly enjoyed Chronicles, though I haven't read it for several years, and Autumn Twilight was my favourite of the trilogy.

 

[sanabas]

Yeah, because we all got to Freddy's Mom's basement- where he lives- and rolls dice to kill critter and roll dice to have glorius sexual encounters to masturbate our ego, because, you know, we are like, so totally disgustingly fat, filthy nobodies...

That's a bit harsh, I'm sure some of you are skinny, weedy, nobodies.

I'm not paying out roleplaying in general, I am simply paying out the D&D stuff that seems to me to be all about dice-rolling & levelling up, and very little about actually playing a role.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Obviously your experience of proper D&D and AD&D is sadly limited.

The more I hear about this project, the better it sounds. Bring on next year.

 

[Mesousa]

I'm not paying out roleplaying in general, I am simply paying out the D&D stuff that seems to me to be all about dice-rolling & levelling up, and very little about actually playing a role.

It's not about the system/rules, it's about the players. Some don't roleplay in D&D, and they wouldn't under any other circumstances. Some turn everything into a pure dice-rolling exercise/hack n slay/monty haul/(insert favorite way of having fun with RPGs the supposedly wrong way here), even when they use a system that is supposed to encourage "true" roleplaying.