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11 months ago ::
May 06, 2009 - 11:35AM
#11
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Nonetheless, there's still a lesson to be learned.
Yes. The lesson is "Don't sell your movie rights under terms that give you no review or oversight."
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11 months ago ::
May 06, 2009 - 12:24PM
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Yes. The lesson is "Don't sell your movie rights under terms that give you no review or oversight."
Well, that of course, but I think it's worth pointing out that any future D&D project will have to overcome this stigma and even an MTG one may be affected by proxy.
Proud member of C.A.R.D. - Campaign Against Rare Duals
"...but the time has come when lands just need to be better. Creatures have gotten stronger, spells have always been insane, and lands just sat in this awkward place of necessity." Jacob Van Lunen on the refuge duals, 16 Sep 2009.
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11 months ago ::
May 06, 2009 - 12:25PM
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Well the rights were already sold, so whether Wotc should sell them is pretty moot at this point. I would love to see a magic movie (hopefully based on either Ravnica or the brothers' war). I just hope they don't do to magic what they did to DBZ... Jace is your average high school student living in a small town when just before he's going to ask the most popular girl in school, he gets too worked up and finds himself in Egypt. He later learns that he is a planeswalker meaning he can teleport anywhere on Earth... and once to Mars as comic relief.
Years ago his grandfather and four others found a mystical stone in a Mayan ruin and when touched it broke apart into five peices, each with a diffrent color. Now Jace must collect all five stones and bring them back to the Mayan temple before the eclipse or else the world will end*. On his way he'll fight Chandra, the brash young hottie with a love of pyromania, Vess, a troubled girl who made a deal she can't back away from, Gaurruk, a hunter extreme with no morality when it comes to his prey, and Ajani, a young man who is learned the diffrence between vegence and justice.
But deep in the shadows lurks, Bolas. Jace's former friend and rival. He seeks the stone for his own power.
Will Jace be able to recover all five stones? Will Bolas suceed in destroying the world? You'll just have to tune into...Magic: the Gathering
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Spoiler: In the end Bolas does get the stones, turns into a dragon and Jace has to slay him with the legacy weapon. ^This is what i fear a magic movie would turn into. And the sad thing is... it has happened to more main stream projects. *Because no badly concepted "realisitic" fantasy movie is complete without an eclipse.
… and then, the squirrels came.
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11 months ago ::
May 06, 2009 - 1:11PM
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Well the rights were already sold, so whether Wotc should sell them is pretty moot at this point.
Well, yes, but their sale means nothing, other than the person or organization who bought the rights has the option to make a movie if they so choose.
Still don't think it's going to happen.
I walked across a bridge and almost right past a suicide/ You could say I'm a hero depending on the light that you put me in/ What changed her mind was when I took the time to tell her 'bout you and me/ She heard my tale and climbed off the rail and then she tried to push me in/
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11 months ago ::
May 06, 2009 - 1:27PM
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I just hope they don't do to magic what they did to DBZ...
/snip
Urza's eyes!
You've just scarred me for life 
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11 months ago ::
May 06, 2009 - 1:48PM
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I just hope they don't do to magic what they did to DBZ...
Hollywood is deeply in love with the Monomyth, which has proven itself as a magical money-making machine so often that for some in Hollywood, there may as well be no other story (which is precisely what Hollywood story guru Robert McKee argues in his book and workshops).
Harry Potter = Luke Skywalker = Neo = Frodo
Dumbledore = Ben Kenobi = Morpheus = Gandalf
Voldemort = Palpatine = The Architect = Sauron
When the Monomyth is applied to a story lazily or clumsily, you get a terrible movie. When it's applied well, you get piles and piles and piles of money.
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11 months ago ::
May 06, 2009 - 5:55PM
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QFT.
However, I think if done right, the Magic setting could be made into a rather popular movie. All of a sudden, Ravnica seems like a good setting. I don't know why. 
Because Ravnica screams movie scene. A plane wide city run by a magical code called the Guildpact, a dark brooding villianous vampire pulling the strings even orchistrating his own death in order to destroy the Guildpact and create an army of spirits that managed to kill Razia and almost all the other angels on Sunhome. All the while, guilds make war on other guilds for dominance over the city, nephilems run rampant and grow to epic proportions. A maniacal goblin awakens dragons which fight each other.
It would make an extremely action-packed movie if nothing else.
I'd be a happy mage if they just made this one movie.
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11 months ago ::
May 06, 2009 - 7:12PM
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Actually, i would love to see the Brother's War made into a movie. That's one of the more original story lines I've ever read, but I would hope that they would split it among three or so movies. Too much content, and a lot would still need to be cut
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11 months ago ::
May 06, 2009 - 7:21PM
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I'm surprised that no one has tried to do a 'fan' movie like those two Tolkien movies and that one Star Wars movie, none of which I can remember the names of right now. EDIT: Just remembered one the Tolkien ones. The Hunt for Gollum. There should be a link to the other on the site, but my computer's being dumb, so I can't get it.
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11 months ago ::
May 06, 2009 - 9:37PM
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I'm surprised that no one has tried to do a 'fan' movie like those two Tolkien movies and that one Star Wars movie, none of which I can remember the names of right now.
EDIT: Just remembered one the Tolkien ones. The Hunt for Gollum. There should be a link to the other on the site, but my computer's being dumb, so I can't get it.
While I agree that the first Magic movie will probably be a result of something like this, very few fans would be able to pull it off. If you've seen the Hunt for Gollum (which is INCREDIBLE, btw), it's really professional, and they pulled it off with like $6,000. They could do that because people were already familiar with the LotR enterprise, and were eager to help support another LotR movie.
Magic is pretty obscure, in the big wide, world, and pulling something like this off would be extremely difficult--which is why no one's tried this yet. Think of how hard it must have been for the Gollum people to make that--then multiply that difficulty by like 150% and that's about how difficult it would be to make a Magic movie.
But as soon as one comes out, if it's not abysmal, I promise you I'll be all over it :P
"There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression." ~H.P. Lovecraft
Creator of stories
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