******Official Dragonlance Chronicles Movie Thread***** (1 Viewer)

[oddball]

Here you can offer up suggestions for who to play which character.

Updates as suggestions are made.

Tanis

Raistlin

Tika

Tasslehoff

Flint

Sturm

Cameron

Riverwind

Goldmoon

 

[WampusCat43]

 

[igbomb]

Nerds

(I think I've read the Chronicles four times. )

 

[Buckychudd]

These guys.

 

[SoFresh&SoClean]

What.

 

[Apes with Guns]

TAsselhoff Burfoot should be...TOBY MCGWIRE.

 

[Righetti]

David Hasselhof rumored to play Riverwind

 

[oddball]

Thanks to S_ezy for the link to the movie.

Most of the casting is done, and filming will start 'soon'.

Wow. Jack Baur as Raistlin.

 

[Buckychudd]

Thanks to S_ezy for the link to the movie.

Most of the casting is done, and filming will start 'soon'.

Wow. Jack Baur as Raistlin.

Director

The film is being directed by Will Meugniot, whose credits include "Stargate: Infinity" 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".

 

[shining path]

I certainly hope they use the official AD&D core rules for this movie adaptation.

 

[Mad Cow]

Here you can offer up suggestions for who to play which character.Updates as suggestions are made.Tanis - RaistlinTikaTasslehoffFlintSturm - Cameron - RiverwindGoldmoon -

Added above. For additional ones, I am gonna say Famke Janssen for Kitiara.I will have to think about it and come back to these.

 

[Rhino]

Sucks that this is going to be animated. Live action would have been so much cooler.

 

[matuski]

Sucks that this is going to be animated. Live action would have been so much cooler.

 

[Frostillicus]

From IMDB:

Will be released on DVD January 15th, confirmed by the official site.

See official trailer here

Full cast list:

Michael Rosenbaum ... Tanthalas 'Tanis' Half-Elven (voice)

Kiefer Sutherland ... Raistlin Majere (voice)

Lucy Lawless ... Goldmoon (voice)

Fred Tatasciore ... Flint Fireforge / Fewmaster Toede (voice)

Michelle Trachtenberg ... Tika (voice)

Rino Romano ... Caramon Majere (voice)

Jason Marsden ... Tasslehoff Burrfoot (voice)

Neil Ross ... Fizban The Fabulous (voice)

Marc Worden ... Sturm Brightblade (voice)

Phil LaMarr ... Riverwind / Gilthanas (voice)

Dee Bradley Baker ... Pyros (voice)

Nika Futterman ... Takhisis (voice)

Mari Weiss ... The Forestmaster (voice)

Caroline Gelabert ... Laurana (voice)

David Sobolov ... Verminaard

Susan Silo ... Flamestrike (voice)

Jentle Phoenix ... Bupu (voice)

Ben L. McCain ... Elistan (voice)

Juliette Clair ... Onyx (voice)

 

[Mad Cow]

The animation for that looked at times good, mostly crap, though.

 

[prosopis]

That looks pretty bad. You would think the cartoon would be higher quality.

 

[oddball]

Disappointing. I'll still watch it though.

 

[matuski]

good choices on the voices... but wtf with the 80's cartoon quality?

 

[Mad Cow]

Gonna have to put it in the Netflix queue and endure the from the wife.

 

[Mad Cow]

Hmm not in Netflix system yet.

 

[Buckychudd]

Gonna have to put it in the Netflix queue and endure the from the wife.

Any luck finding it in Netflix? My searches came up empty.

 

[GregR_2]

Woah. I had no clue they were making any kind of movie. Hopefully the animated does well enough they later consider making a live action.

Not to suggest that I'm a fan of the series, but I have a lab named Tika and a crotchety old cat named Flint. And used to have a very troublesome, roaming cat named Tas, but go figure he went wanderlust and disappeared a half-dozen years ago.

 

[Bull Dozier]

Cool. I only read a couple of the Dragonlance books, but I loved reading them. It's been near 20 years since I picked one up. It will be interesting to see what I remember.

 

[Mad Cow]

Woah. I had no clue they were making any kind of movie. Hopefully the animated does well enough they later consider making a live action.Not to suggest that I'm a fan of the series, but I have a lab named Tika and a crotchety old cat named Flint. And used to have a very troublesome, roaming cat named Tas, but go figure he went wanderlust and disappeared a half-dozen years ago.

I was a pretty #######g huge DL nerd. Still am, I suppose. Last read the novels about 5 years ago.

 

[GregR_2]

Woah. I had no clue they were making any kind of movie. Hopefully the animated does well enough they later consider making a live action.Not to suggest that I'm a fan of the series, but I have a lab named Tika and a crotchety old cat named Flint. And used to have a very troublesome, roaming cat named Tas, but go figure he went wanderlust and disappeared a half-dozen years ago.

I was a pretty #######g huge DL nerd. Still am, I suppose. Last read the novels about 5 years ago.

Same here. I probably own about 30 of the books in the series. Though very few of them are of the quality of the initial trilogy and the twins trilogy.

 

[Mad Cow]

Woah. I had no clue they were making any kind of movie. Hopefully the animated does well enough they later consider making a live action.Not to suggest that I'm a fan of the series, but I have a lab named Tika and a crotchety old cat named Flint. And used to have a very troublesome, roaming cat named Tas, but go figure he went wanderlust and disappeared a half-dozen years ago.

I was a pretty #######g huge DL nerd. Still am, I suppose. Last read the novels about 5 years ago.

Same here. I probably own about 30 of the books in the series. Though very few of them are of the quality of the initial trilogy and the twins trilogy.

Have you read the new ones? Seems like I read Dragons of Summer Flame, but I cannot remember anything about it, and never continued.The original and twins trilogies are canons of fantasy reading.

 

[GregR_2]

Woah. I had no clue they were making any kind of movie. Hopefully the animated does well enough they later consider making a live action.Not to suggest that I'm a fan of the series, but I have a lab named Tika and a crotchety old cat named Flint. And used to have a very troublesome, roaming cat named Tas, but go figure he went wanderlust and disappeared a half-dozen years ago.

I was a pretty #######g huge DL nerd. Still am, I suppose. Last read the novels about 5 years ago.

Same here. I probably own about 30 of the books in the series. Though very few of them are of the quality of the initial trilogy and the twins trilogy.

Have you read the new ones? Seems like I read Dragons of Summer Flame, but I cannot remember anything about it, and never continued.The original and twins trilogies are canons of fantasy reading.

I was sitting here looking at my bookshelf and trying to remember where they all went... they used to fill the top two shelves of my book shelf, but now the first 6 books are all that are left. Was thinking maybe I boxed them up, but then I remembered... I took all the books I didn't think I was likely to read and took them down to the Astrodome to give to Katrina refugees. All I have left now are the original 6.I did read the first book that amounted to being the children of the original characters, I think that's the one you mean. It was ok, but nothing to get me hooked back into the series again. Not even sure if they continued that storyline on or not.

 

[Mad Cow]

Woah. I had no clue they were making any kind of movie. Hopefully the animated does well enough they later consider making a live action.Not to suggest that I'm a fan of the series, but I have a lab named Tika and a crotchety old cat named Flint. And used to have a very troublesome, roaming cat named Tas, but go figure he went wanderlust and disappeared a half-dozen years ago.

I was a pretty #######g huge DL nerd. Still am, I suppose. Last read the novels about 5 years ago.

Same here. I probably own about 30 of the books in the series. Though very few of them are of the quality of the initial trilogy and the twins trilogy.

Have you read the new ones? Seems like I read Dragons of Summer Flame, but I cannot remember anything about it, and never continued.The original and twins trilogies are canons of fantasy reading.

I was sitting here looking at my bookshelf and trying to remember where they all went... they used to fill the top two shelves of my book shelf, but now the first 6 books are all that are left. Was thinking maybe I boxed them up, but then I remembered... I took all the books I didn't think I was likely to read and took them down to the Astrodome to give to Katrina refugees. All I have left now are the original 6.I did read the first book that amounted to being the children of the original characters, I think that's the one you mean. It was ok, but nothing to get me hooked back into the series again. Not even sure if they continued that storyline on or not.

Yep, that is it. Caramon's kid a wizard, running around with Tas and crap.They started a War of Souls or some such series. No idea if it was any good.

 

[Master of Past and Present]

Bump for release day.

 

[Quadrax]

this "movie" is a farce....f'n cartoon....jeebus...

my favorite book series of all time...

i have read 90% of the dl books, but nothing will ever compare to the original 3....

 

[oddball]

Bump for release day.

Hey Raist!

 

[WampusCat43]

A review is in

"To score your damage caused by watching this film, roll 3d6 and add your armor bonus. If the result is greater than 15, give yourself a swirlie for understanding the reference."

 

[Rhino]

A review is in

"To score your damage caused by watching this film, roll 3d6 and add your armor bonus. If the result is greater than 15, give yourself a swirlie for understanding the reference."

Sounds pretty disappointing. Still, I'd like to hear a review from someone who doesn't admit from the start that he lost interest in the books as a kid. Obviously if you didn't like the books and think D&D is for nerds (...which I guess is true...) then this movie isn't going to be for you. It is a shame to hear about the bad animation tho. With today's animated movies the bar is set pretty high in that regard.

 

[andy_b]

A review is in

"To score your damage caused by watching this film, roll 3d6 and add your armor bonus. If the result is greater than 15, give yourself a swirlie for understanding the reference."

Sounds pretty disappointing. Still, I'd like to hear a review from someone who doesn't admit from the start that he lost interest in the books as a kid. Obviously if you didn't like the books and think D&D is for nerds (...which I guess is true...) then this movie isn't going to be for you. It is a shame to hear about the bad animation tho. With today's animated movies the bar is set pretty high in that regard.

from IMDBA Faithful, if Abridged, Adaptation, 10 January 2008

9/10

Author: Etrival from United States

This small screen adaptation of the timeless novel from Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman tells the story of Tanis Half-Elven and his cadre of friends in their quest to find the Disks of Mishakal and stop the Dark Goddess Takhisis from taking over the world of Krynn.

Tanis Half-Elven, voiced by Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor of Smallville fame), is a man trying to come to grips with being, as the book claimed it "half of two things, and all of nothing". He is half-elf and half-human, being accepted by neither and distrusted by both races.

Tanis and his friends Caramon Majere (Rino Romano), Raistlin Majere (Kiefer Sutherland), Sturm Brightblade (Marc Worden), Flint Fireforge (Fred Tatasciore), and Tasslehoff Burrfoot (Jason Marsden), have reunited in the town of Solace after five years, where all spent their time finding themselves and their way in the world. Returning to Solace, they find their friend Tika Waylan (Michelle Trachtenberg) to be all grown up and the new owner of the Inn most of them grew up in. At the inn, they meet Goldmoon (Lucy Lawless) and Riverwind (Phil LaMarr) of the Que-shu tribe of barbarians out of the north. Goldmoon comes to Solace bearing the fabled Blue Crystal Staff. After a rousing tale by the old wizard known only as Fizban the Fabulous, they are accosted by a 'church official', who is accidentally thrown into the hearth by Riverwind and set aflame. Fizban snatches the Blue Crystal Staff away from Goldmoon, striking the official down and magically healing him with the staff's mystical powers... this sets forth a chain of events that remains remarkably faithful to the book, yet still compressed enough to remain within the 90 minute time span.

Semi-decent animation and a few corny lines of dialogue as well as okay delivery are the only things separating this from being a 10.

 

[oddball]

Just finished watching the first half hour. Tika is...ummm.....'gifted'.

 

[oddball]

Half way through(God bless the internet!). Some thoughts:

Tika has some large breasts!

Riverwind too short

Forestmaster Unicorn covered in some weird ivy-like growth

The animation reminds me of Thundercats....snarf!

 

[GregR_2]

Just finished watching it. My reaction as I watched.







:X



Wow. That was horrible. Utterly, completely horrible. I loved Dragonlance, and when it comes to movies I'm extremely easy to please. And that was just utterly horrible. If I had kept a running track of everything in the movie that made me cringe it would easily be the longest post I've ever made on footballguys.

To just hit some of the worst parts...

There is a soundtrack running through THE ENTIRE MOVIE. I noticed one 5 second gap where they wanted you to hear the creepy winds outside of Darkenwood where there wasn't music going. That was the only point in the entire movie that didn't have a musical score going. And it wasn't even a good musical score. It was a near-continuous distraction throughout the movie.

The entire thing sounded like the actors just sat around a table and read their parts, with no attempt to act or bring the scene to life. It isn't that they didn't put emotion in their voices. It's that it sounds like they just all sat there waiting for the person who speaks ahead of them to finish and then start up themselves. There was no attempt to actually make the dialogue into a scene that is happening to real characters. No attempt to time the lines so that the animated characters would have time to actually make the scene seem like it mattered. The whole movie just galloped through the plot like that.

Those were by far the two huge things that totally made this movie suck. Though there were lots of little things. Few of the characters had a voice anywhere close to what I think they should have. Most of the characters had something severely wrong with them, like Riverwind being way too short compared to others in the party. People's height changed from one scene to the next... Flint walking next to Tanis has his head come up to the bottom of Tanis' chest, but when they are sitting in equal height chairs next to each other in the Inn they are the same height. In one scene Laurana is almost the exact same height as Tanis, then 2 minutes later the top of her head is level with his mouth. The elves were the ugliest lot of elves you could imagine. One had a nose that looked like it belonged on Rocky Balboa.

The mixture of animation styles was horrid... the one reviewer mentioned it, it was like they did some in 3D and some in 2D. The Dragons were way too small in my opinion. Tika had bigguns but was pretty ugly. Tas was just annoying to listen to, and not for the reasons a kender is annoying to hear.

This thing really looked not only like someone's first attempt at animation, but someone's first attempt at movie making in general. They plain don't know how to tell a story, how to build a mood, how to build emotion, how to build drama.

I won't go into the myriad of details they screwed up, like Raistlin telling Bupu to find him a book with a midnight blue cover and silver runes... and she later hands him the book and it's brown with gold trim. This was a waste of time even for a lover of the Dragonlance series to watch.

 

[The Duff Man]

The original 3 were the first books I ever read at age 11. I cried when Sturm and Flint died.

Can't remember how many times I have read them since...but it is a lot. No way I am watching this thing, the trailer looked brutal.

 

[Chaka]

I am feeling very disappointed right now. I didn't even know it was being made, now I find out and it sounds like it is not good.

I loved these books.

 

[The Duff Man]

Saw this review on the Dragonlance forum



Verminaard wearing a dishtowel over his face?

Takhisis is all fuzzy in most of her scenes.

People missing hands and feet.

Extra hands and feet.

No dead lizard for healing.

Giant Square Chins For All .

No death by acid - wasn't this the reason for the PG-13 stated by the authors?

Big Wiggly Bewbs on Innocent Young Barmaids - seriously, she's supposed to have a rack and all, but holy stripclub freakshow, Batman!

Staff light punches people in the chest?

It seemed to be an average of about four frames per second. I even paused and frame-by-framed it, there are places where I had to advance 10 or 12 frames to see anything change.

The Forestmaster looked more like the Lawnornament.

Sizechanges all around. Grow a foot, shrink a foot. Grow a foot, shrink a foot.

No Horns for Sturm, no Helm for Caramon, but Verminaard got a dishtowel?

Elistan macking on Laurana? Wasn't there a pretty important theme later on, of Tanis's jealousy and how it was unfounded, that Laurana was mad he'd infer that Elistan was anything more than her wise mentor? Gonna be kind of hard for her to get mad now, having been macked on. Hope I'm using that term right - isn't that how you kids say it?

Bewbs here, Bewbs there, Bewbs everywhere! Tika's Bewbs are so freakishly huge they deserved a second entry. Though, I do wish my wife (or any woman anywhere, for that matter) had the ability to make their bewbs dance around and point like that.

 

[WampusCat43]

Rotten Tomatoes loved it:

 

[Mad Cow]

Watching the first bit right now and am 99% sure I will not go much further. Holy crap what crap.

Bad animation, abysmal voice acting and casting.

And lol at making Tika's boobies bounce in each scene she is in.

 

[Apes with Guns]

Watching the first bit right now and am 99% sure I will not go much further. Holy crap what crap.Bad animation, abysmal voice acting and casting.And lol at making Tika's boobies bounce in each scene she is in.

This was a horrible movie.

 

[Mad Cow]

:( That cartoon makes me sad. We need to revive the casting suggestions however:

Updates as suggestions are made.


Tanis
Raistlin - Tom Hiddleston
Tika
Tasslehoff
Flint
Sturm
Caramon - why not keep up the fun and get Thor. It would actually be perfect
Riverwind
Goldmoon

Kitiara

Fizban

 

[Bull Dozier]

My 11 year old is an avid reader. He reads a lot of different genres and has read plenty of fantasy. I finally got the first book electronically, and we are going to read it at the same time. I don't remember a lot outside of the characters, but looking forward to reliving some of my childhood.

 

[The Duff Man]

Sean Bean would be awesome for Sturm....too old though.

I like the look of Evangeline Lilly for Kit but she doesnt have the attitude. Angelina Jolie (Tomb Raider days) could fit that character.

 

[dickey moe]

I certainly hope they use the official AD&D core rules for this movie adaptation.

Seeing this post makes me : :( :

 

[Mad Cow]

Sean Bean would be awesome for Sturm....too old though.

I like the look of Evangeline Lilly for Kit but she doesnt have the attitude. Angelina Jolie (Tomb Raider days) could fit that character.

I could see a Scarlett Johansen as Kit.

 

[Mad Cow]

Not sure how I feel about all of these.

 

[GregR]

Blast from the past here. I still regard the animated one as probably the worst, most disappointing movie I've ever seen.

I'll have to think about live casting.