Does ANYONE in the world plan to make a D&D like fantasy movie?

[Encard]

Hmm... there'll probably be another fantasy movie made at some point in time...
On the subject of Elminster, though, I'd have to agree with NebTron. El-boy is a munchkin... and Greenwood doesn't seem to be able to stand not having Elminster magically annihilate large groups of people excessively easily. I thought Elminster in Hell might not have been too bad, during the first portion of it... but then the ending was (at least in my opinion) utterly stupid and had nothing to do with the rest of the book... and the book itself could have been better, methinks...
As for the D&D movie, I personally hated it... can't remember the exact problems any more, although they probably involved the fact that there were about two or so actual monsters I can remember in the thing (dragons and beholders), one of which did nothing... and the thief suddenly dicing up that funny warrior henchman guy after being beat up horribly by him a bit earlier... and why they decided not to try to resurrect the thief who fell off the building/cliff/whatever it was... and the fact that I found the characters to be somewhat highly uninteresting... and the movie seemed skip over large portions of stuff that should have been there... wow, lot of stuff. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

LOL Cerek I have to totally agree with your assessment of the D&D movie. The story was hohum, but the RP elements were pretty good.

[Epona]

Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric: One other note about R.A. Salvatore and the possibility of seeing Drizzt & Co on the "Big Screen". As any fan knows, he was asked to write one of the Star Wars books last year (for awhile, there was some excited confusion that he had been chosen to do the script for Attack of the Clones, but his book occurs much later in the series....dealing with the children of Hans and Luke).

Very true, I bought it for my dad for Xmas last year. I don't read star wars stuff myself, so was surprised to see Salvatore's name on the cover!

[Attalus]

LOL, I think that I'm just jealous, but Salvatore did a few other novelizations, including Star Wars, Episode II. This guy must get up a
t six and write all day. But, IMHO, if he had never come up with Drizzt, we would have never heard of him. :greenwithenvy:

[/)eathKiller]

Originally posted by Neb: I'd much rather have an FF7 movie.

There was an FF TV series which had CLoud, Vincent, some Chocobos, and moogles appear in one episode... [img]tongue.gif[/img] but it was Anime so... [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Cerek the Barbaric]

Originally posted by Attalus: LOL, I think that I'm just jealous, but Salvatore did a few other novelizations, including Star Wars, Episode II. This guy must get up a t six and write all day. But, IMHO, if he had never come up with Drizzt, we would have never heard of him. :greenwithenvy:

Hmmm....maybe, maybe not. He has done several other novels, including some set in his own "gameworld". The Crimson Cape series introduced a halfling duelist who was one of the most intriguing characters I've ever seen in a book.

I agree that he owes most of his success to the Icewind Dale Trilogy. It was his first effort in the Forgotten Realms, and he created so incredibly interesting characters. In fact, after reading The Crystal Shard, I was so impressed with his writing style that I sent him a letter (through TSR, of course). I was very honored to actually receive a letter back from Salvatore himself a couple of months later, and we corresponded with each other for about 1 1/2 years (I also wanted to be a fantasy novel writer). He actually suggested that I avoid becoming a writer unless I was totally committed because of the extreme amount of pressure to meet deadlines whether you have "writer's block" or not.

He was every bit as personable in his letters as his characters were in his books. Alas, real life intervened with marriage and kids and I haven't much time to read novels anymore. Still, I place R.A. Salvatore in the same league as Tolkien. I like his books that much.