Dragonlance Movie Tuesday, July 18, 2006

As usual, I am a little late with this one, but I figured I'd share: As I just discovered today via RPG Blog, there is an animated Dragonlance movie slated for release in the fall of 2007, and the cast includes some personal favorites, including Michael Rosenbaum as Tanis, Kiefer Sutherland as Raistlin, and Lucy Lawless as Goldmoon. They should have gotten Mark Hamill to do Tasslehoff instead of this Jason Marsden guy. I think he does great voiceover work and I like to know that Luke Skywalker is still working.

In any event, I am glad that they decided to do this as an animated feature rather than attempting some sort of live action thing, which would be pretty much guaranteed to be a disaster. However, according to the Movie FAQ, the screenplay was written by a guy named George Strayton, whose most prominent screen credits are a few episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess. Luckily, he does have some pen-and-paper RPG credits, but his biggest contribution, West End's d6 System (1996), was little more than a rehash of the original Star Wars RPG system and was not exactly critically well-received. This does not leave me much room to hope against hope that they produce something that can capture the magic of the original Dragonlance Trilogy, but you never know.