Dragonlance - Dragons of Autumn Twilight: Is The Book Any Better?
Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight is a 2008 American animated film based on the Dragonlance setting of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. It is a direct-to-DVD adaptation of the first novel written for the setting, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984), co-written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, both of whom assisted with the film's screenplay. Animation was chosen over live action because the team couldn't get the $75 million needed to produce a live action feature. They also planned to make Dragonlance into an ongoing series provided the first film performed well. It didn't. Many deals for a Dragonlance movie had reportedly come and gone over the years. At one point a Canadian animation company, Nelvana Studios, were slated to produce a made-for-TV animated feature set somewhere between the events of the "Dragons of Autumn Twilight" and "Dragons of Winter Night" novels, but the deal ultimately fell through because Nelvana ...