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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9260890" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>Any suggestions by Hollywood as to why a project doesn't move forward should be taken with about 250,000 grains of salt.</p><p></p><p>Saying that the Dragonlance book didn't sell enough to warrant moving forward on the project is probably true-- from a Hollywood marketing point of view. But practically NOTHING sells enough to warrant a fast greenlight on projects like that. Dragonlance would have had to have been a <strong>monstrous</strong> hit for Hollywood to consider the property strong enough to move forward no questions asked. It didn't... Dragonlance sold just like any other property, and thus Hollywood saw no reason to fast track it. Instead they went through their normal processes of developing a project, and somewhere down the line snags were hit. Just like the thousands of other projects being bandied about Hollywood. </p><p></p><p>I mean the fact that a <em>Barbie</em> movie was only released last year and a <em>Five Nights At Freddy's</em> film was released a full 10 years after the game broke out tells us quite easily that the popularity of a property is not in any way the only marker of a television or film being made off of it... there are hundreds of other reasons why something may or may not move forward.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9260890, member: 7006"] Any suggestions by Hollywood as to why a project doesn't move forward should be taken with about 250,000 grains of salt. Saying that the Dragonlance book didn't sell enough to warrant moving forward on the project is probably true-- from a Hollywood marketing point of view. But practically NOTHING sells enough to warrant a fast greenlight on projects like that. Dragonlance would have had to have been a [B]monstrous[/B] hit for Hollywood to consider the property strong enough to move forward no questions asked. It didn't... Dragonlance sold just like any other property, and thus Hollywood saw no reason to fast track it. Instead they went through their normal processes of developing a project, and somewhere down the line snags were hit. Just like the thousands of other projects being bandied about Hollywood. I mean the fact that a [I]Barbie[/I] movie was only released last year and a [I]Five Nights At Freddy's[/I] film was released a full 10 years after the game broke out tells us quite easily that the popularity of a property is not in any way the only marker of a television or film being made off of it... there are hundreds of other reasons why something may or may not move forward. [/QUOTE]
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