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post #1 of 33
11/16/06 at 3:01am
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http://www.dragonlance-movie.com/movie/cast/

I knew, from a friend of dh's going to Dragoncon, but still, to see it in print- swoon. Kiefer!

There have to be some others of us here...

LotR is not (and I'm saying this as someone who has gone to the Westwood premiere of Bakshi's version, had email from Sir Ian while filming Gandalf, and bitched Peter Jackson so much at The OneRing.com we got Viggo in & Stuart Townsend out) geek cred.

The actors I suggested at alt.dragonlance a decade ago have all gotten too old for the roles though, so I can't complain about this casting. And Lucy Lawless! W00t!
post #2 of 33
11/16/06 at 3:10am
I know!

I nearly wet myself when I found out. : I have been a Dragonlance geek ever since I first came across The Chronicles lo those many years ago (I think I was in the fifth or sixth grade when I first found them, and they got me through many a-long geek-lonely high school nights.

I've been waiting for a movie ever since first coming across them.

How big a Dragonlance am I? I literally own EVERY Dragonlance book currently in existence and anxiously await the release of each new one.
post #3 of 33
11/16/06 at 11:35am
I never got into those when I read them, but I've got plenty of friends who are very into them and are going to have all kinds of fun with a movie--especially critiquing the accuracy!
post #4 of 33
11/16/06 at 12:30pm
Sweet!

I loved it when Tracy Hickman used to come into the gamestore and DM games for us!

<--- Total Geek
post #5 of 33
11/16/06 at 1:22pm
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I loved it when Tracy Hickman used to come into the gamestore and DM games for us!
Be still my beating heart!!!
post #6 of 33
11/16/06 at 2:24pm
tigertail-what could you possibly have against Viggo Lord of My Pants Mortensen?
post #7 of 33
11/16/06 at 3:10pm
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Mama G, you misunderstand me- Stuart OUT, Viggo IN. TT <--- Stuart was not going to be Aragorn on my watch.

(and Sir Ian was fretting that Tolkien fans would abhor his casting, so I reassured him that a few vocal homophobes were not going to queer his success. Cough. I was right, though.)

Yes, Tracy gave us email congrats when our children were born. Dh seduced me telling me tales of certain dragons and wizards, & you know LDS folks get all sentimental about kids. There's a couple more in the world due to DL.

(Dh was like, "I talked to J, & guess what!" I said, "He went to Dragoncon!" "Uh, yeah. But who he talked to?" "Margaret, & there's a movie!" I'm a good guesser, ain't I? I could tell from the excitement on his face.)
post #8 of 33
11/16/06 at 4:12pm
So, TigerTail, I guess you're also excited about The Lost Chronicles too?

Vol. 1, Dragons of the Dwarven Depths
(About the finding of the Hammer of Kharas)
Vol. 2, Dragons of the Highlord Skies
(About Laurana at Ice Wall and Kitiara's war across Ansalon)
and
Vol. 3, Dragons of the Hourglass Mage
(Presumably about Raistlin's conversion to the black robes)
post #9 of 33
11/16/06 at 4:20pm
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Yeah, even though I lost enthusiasm at Summer Flame. I will be thoroughly worked up by 3, I promise (After 'Brothers at Arms'... dang, it's been long enough!)

Now is the time we post slash sites & see how many hundreds of pages it can get to before they figure it out.
post #10 of 33
11/16/06 at 6:49pm
Someone sent me this link recently, knowing how into the books I was back in the day. I had a decent collection, but I think I boxed up almost all of my books when I moved out and they went to a used book store. Sigh.

I have a cat (who lives at my parents') whose name is Takhisis.
post #11 of 33
11/16/06 at 7:39pm
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Mama G, you misunderstand me- Stuart OUT, Viggo IN. TT <--- Stuart was not going to be Aragorn on my watch.

phew, i won't have to cross you off my list of fave bad-add posters.
post #12 of 33
11/17/06 at 5:06pm
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Well, bless your heart.

Brisen, my dd has a black half-siamese cat that ought to be named Takhisis. Damn, she's mean. I'm getting ready to drive down to Fla & the baby is crying, "No, don' wanna see Rei, she hit me!" ( No, it was not unjustifiable. She's just the first cat who's called him on it. But she hit me too, & I haven't done a darn thing!)

The Raistlin/Dalamar stories are quite interesting. (Anyone from the alt.dragonlance days here? Who remembers 'Raistlin is a woman', or the immortal 'Drizzt vs the Care Bears'? )
post #13 of 33
11/20/06 at 2:39pm
So I've had the Companions' Rhapsody stuck in my head on and off for a few days now. Double geek points if you sing it to the tune of Weird Al's Bohemian Polka.
post #14 of 33
2/13/07 at 4:21am
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So I've had the Companions' Rhapsody stuck in my head on and off for a few days now. Double geek points if you sing it to the tune of Weird Al's Bohemian Polka.
Somehow I missed that. The "Companion's Rhapsody" is : I have an entire bookshelf devoted to the Dragonlance books in my office. I currently own 159 of 168 of the books that are available. Of the 9 I don't own, 7 haven't been published yet, 1 isn't available in paperback yet, and the final one is the Legends Omnibus which is Time of the Twins, War of the Twins and Test of the Twins in a single volume.

I was a big Dragonlance geek in middle and high school. BIG Dragonlance geek. While other guys had posters of Cindy Crawford and Stephanie Seymour I had a poster of Laurana and one of Tika in my locker
post #15 of 33
2/13/07 at 4:35am
From Wikipedia's entry on Dragonlance film:

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Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight is set to be the first direct-to-video movie release based on the Dragonlance campaign setting of Dungeons & Dragons. The first ever novel in the setting, Dragons of Autumn Twilight by co-creators Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, is the basis for the movie.
Direct-to-video? Not theatrical? :
post #16 of 33
2/13/07 at 4:53am
I get sadder and sadder the more I see stuff about this film ... the artwork looks horrible. Sturm's helmet doesn't have horns, plus he's too old - he's supposed to be younger than Tanis; Laurana looks crappy; Tanis looks like a homeless person; Riverwind looks like a young Ah-nold Schwarzenegger in the Conan movies; the dragon Pyros in human form looks like Jim Carrey as Count Olaf in A Series of Unfortunate Events; the goblins look like oversized bats and Qualinesti looks like something Ewoks would build. The only things that look half-way decent are the draconian and the background art for Xak Tsaroth (which I always kind of pictured looking like the ruins at Angkor Wat (but underground)

Why doesn't someone point them to the Dragonlance artwork of Larry Elmore or Matt Stawicki?

I'm beginning to lose a lot of faith in this project. *sigh* :
post #17 of 33
2/13/07 at 6:01pm
Wow. Dragonlance. Now that takes me back a bit. It reminds me of all of those of roleplaying games in the highschool commons.
post #18 of 33
2/13/07 at 7:14pm
Thread Starter 
I am afraid to look. Elmore was it, for me.

Direct to video? Bad animation? (Exactly what were ya holdin' out for, guys?)

eta: Huh. Not TOO bad (that Pyros is some goofy, though.) We all know it's Raistlin that counts. I'm reserving judgement.

eta: "guys" meaning Tracy & Margaret, in case I wasn't clear.
post #19 of 33
2/13/07 at 7:17pm
Oooo Dragonlance. Dh will be so happy! Ooooooo Keifer Sutherland - I am happy!
post #20 of 33
2/14/07 at 3:15pm
Lucy Lawless! WOOHOO! I'm there!
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