Dragonlance streaming series? Authors Weis and Hickman still hope it could happen

polygon.com:

If there are plans for a live-action adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons’ classic Dragonlance stories, authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman haven’t heard about it. The authors of the Dragonlance Chronicles both tell Polygon they hold out hope that someday the right opportunity will present itself to bring Raistlin Majere, Sturm Brightblade, and the rest of the Companions of the Lance to life in a movie or streaming television series.

“Hope springs eternal, especially in Margaret and I,” said author Tracy Hickman in a recent interview with Polygon where both he and Weis discussed their upcoming novel, Dragons of Fate, which continues the Dragonlance story for a new generation of fans. “We have always believed that Dragonlance would be a wonderful setting in many different media, and we’ve always thought it would make a wonderful film [or streaming series].”

Originally created by Tracy Hickman and his wife, Laura Hickman, during a cross-country road trip, the Dragonlance setting was a hugely popular product line for D&D’s original publisher TSR in the 1980s. It featured novels of course, but also a boatload of beloved tabletop adventures — many of which are still available to purchase online.

Rumors that a live-action English-language adaptation of the Dragonlance setting have circulated for years now, but things came to a head earlier this year. That’s when actor Joe Manganiello, speaking during a D&D livestreaming presentation, seemed to indicate that he was working on a live-action Dragonlance project in earnest. But while a D&D live-action series is headed to Paramount Plus, it apparently doesn’t have anything to do with Dragonlance.

Nevertheless, that hasn’t stopped Manganiello from trying to make it happen. Hickman