2022 Dragons of Autumn Twilight Watch Party

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Join the Amazon Prime Watch Party. We will rewatch Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight and comment on its production and story with you, the audience. We will be live streaming our commentary on this feed, and you can join in live chat here, or on the watch party. The link will be shared on the night of the stream..

About Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight

After 300 hundred years of peace, the world of Krynn has descended into darkness as the evil goddess Takhisis and her army of dragons threaten to dominate the lands. Can a small band of heroes, including the wizard Raistlin (Kiefer Sutherland), the priestess Goldmoon (Lucy Lawless), and the half-elven warrior Tanis (Michael Rosenbaum), save the world before all is lost? Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight is an epic tale of might, magic, and monsters!

Show Notes

Intro

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga review episode. It is Bracha, Yurthgreen the 30th, my name is Adam and today I am being joined by the heavy hitting Dragonlance fans from Dragonlance Nexus. You know them from their fan site, forums, wiki and Dungeons & Dragons 5E conversions and adventures. We are going to be watching the 2008 animated film Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight and providing you with poignant, witty and crass commentary. 

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Details

  • Log Line: A barbarian woman with a miraculous healing staff gains the help of a group of to-be heroes as an army of dragons invades the land.
  • Produced by Steven Stabler
  • Directed by Will Meugniot
  • Written by George Strayton (screenplay)
    • Margaret Weis (original)
    • Tracy Hickman (original)
  • Music by Karl Preusser
  • Release date January 15, 2008
  • Starring:
    • Kiefer Sutherland as Raistlin Majere
    • Lucy Lawless as Goldmoon
    • Michael Rosenbaum as Tanis Half-Elven
    • Michelle Trachtenberg as Tika Waylan
    • Jason Marsden as Tasslehoff Burrfoot
    • Fred Tatasciore as Flint Fireforge / Fewmaster Toede / Hederick
    • Rino Romano as Caramon Majere
    • Neil Ross as Paladine / Fizban
    • Marc Worden as Sturm Brightblade
    • Phil LaMarr as Riverwind / Gilthanas / The Speaker of the Suns
    • Kellyanne Ortega as Bupu / Brinna
    • David Sobolov as Verminaard
    • Caroline Gelabert as Laurana
    • Nika Futterman as Takhisis
    • Mari Weiss as The Forestmaster
    • Ben McCain as Elistan
    • Dee Bradley Baker as Porthios / Pyros / Erik
    • Susan Silo as Flamestrike
    • Juliette Clair as Onyx

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Outro

And that’s it for our commentary of the Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight film. What do you think of the animated film? Did you expect it to tank as bad as it did on release? And finally, if you could have a live action version, would you want a film or a series? You can email me at info@dlsaga.com or comment below. 

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This channel is all about celebrating the wonderful world of the Dragonlance Saga, and I hope you will join me in the celebration. Thank you for watching, this has been Adam with DragonLance Saga and until next time Slàinte mhath (slan-ge-var).

Notes:

  • Tracy Hickman himself was adamantly opposed to trying to fit the entire novel into one movie, saying that “the film should portray essentially the first half of the book and finish with ‘Solace is burning'”.
  • Co-author Tracy Hickman {says} “the animation itself is less than I would have hoped it to be” and that “including the entire first book in the movie was a mistake”. However, his overall reaction is positive, and he describes it as “the opening of a door and the beginning of a journey”
  • The soundtrack, by Karl Preusser, was nominated for a Grammy.
  • Kiefer Sutherland actually looked into the whole background of his character, Raistlin, before showing up on the set to do the recording. He was continuously worried about the pronunciation of the magic spells, so they had to record multiple takes around his spell casting.
  • In the mid-1990s, the Jim Henson Company was in talks with TSR, which was the owner of Dungeons and Dragons and also Dragonlance, to produce some type of Dragonlance project. However when TSR was bought out by Wizards of the Coast, the project was dropped.
  • Goofs:
    • Throughout the scenes in Pax Tharkas (when they’re rescuing the prisoners) Laurana changes repeatedly from being in her elven clothing, to elven armor and back again
    • In the credits, Michael Rosenbaum’s name is misspelled as “Michael Rosenbaun.”
    • At the scene where Verminaard is about to kill Tanis (min: 81), he is wielding his weapon through his body.
    • Various animated errors appear all over this movie. At one point a character seems to have three legs, another a character’s hair is white instead of brown. Some chairs have no color to them and seem invisible.

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