12:01 am:
From:
Hickman Newsletter #114------------------
"If there is one question that I get more than any other ... it involved
the Dragonlance Movie.
Over twenty years ago, jour editor Jean Black hosted a lunch in Lake
Geneva at a local restaurant to celebrate the release of the first
Dragonlance novel, Dragons of Autumn twilight. She stood up and said she had
an announcement to make. Paper in hand, she started reading: "From
Paramount Studios to TSR, Inc. We are pleased to inform you that your
Dragonlance novel will be made into a major motion picture..."
I can still remember the look on Margaret's face ... it must have been
as astonished as mine. It also scared Jean Black because the letter was
a joke she was playing on us. She proceeded to announce the worst
possible director and a casting for the characters that was hilarious.
Still, we both remember that initial, fleeting moment when the possibility
of being on the big screen was real.
We've been waiting ever since – and so have many of you.
Every week over the intervening two decades I get mail asking why we
don't do a Dragonlance movie. Some offer sincerely to help get such a
project made – many young film makers, actors and screenwriters have
approached us – only to be directed back to TSR – and subsequently
Wizards of the Coast – since they hold the movie rights and Margaret and
I do not. Others even seem to blame Margaret and me for holding up
production on a Dragonlance Movie as though all we needed to do was flip a
switch and it would magically happen.
Please believe us; no one – and I mean NO ONE – wants a Dragonlance
movie made more than Margaret and I.
So the years rolled along, the questions kept coming, and Margaret and
I continued to wait, hope and offer support whenever we could.
And now? Well now there IS something happening with a Dragonlance
movie. I can't tell you the details yet but even Margaret and I have
attended a meeting or two – grateful that our opinion seems to count. When
we can say more, we will.
In the meanwhile, just know that sometimes it's right not to give up on
some dreams."