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Seeing Snow White might embarrass them, but Dragon’s Lair is already theirs. They won’t feel shy about going into the theater.
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If the Dragon’s Lair name appears on a movie marquee, kids won’t be threatened by it. At the height of the game’s popularity, Bluth brought in writer Alan Dean Foster, known at the time for his novelizations of movies including the first Star Wars, to participate in story sessions.īluth said, “I think we have a really good shot with the movie version. This recent announcement of a feature film was not the first time that Bluth and Goldman tried to develop the game into a theatrical feature. Bluth gave the studio model sheets from the game and had script approval but rarely read them.
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The series was developed by Rick Merwin and Paul Dini focusing on different quests from King Ethelred who was also Daphne’s father.
In the game, the dragon was unnamed but for the series was dubbed “Singe” and could now talk. In the videogame, sound engineer Dan Molina voiced Dirk and Vera Lampher, head of the assistant animators, did Daphne. Thirteen half hour episodes of that series were produced with Bob Sarlatte voicing Dirk and Ellen Gerstel doing Daphne. They ended up raising $731,172 for the teaser.Īt the time, Bluth told Gamespot magazine that the film would not depict Daphne as a “blonde airhead” and her “sexulaized” appearance would be toned down for the movie just as it had been for the Ruby-Spears 1984-85 Saturday morning television series based on the game. In October 2015, Bluth and Gary Goldman turned to Kickstarter and later Indiegogo to raise money to produce a ten minute animated teaser for a Dragon’s Lair feature film that could be shown to investors in hopes of making a multi-million dollar film.
The script is being written by Dan and Kevin Hageman, who paired up for 2014’s The Lego Movie. The live action film will be produced for Netflix with Don Bluth, Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy also listed as co-producers.
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A third game, Dragon’s Lair 3: The Curse of Mordread, hit personal computers in 1993, and a 3D sequel hit PC and console in the early 2000s. A sequel, Dragon’s Lair 2: Time Warp, finally was released in 1991. The original Dragon’s Lair was released in 1983 and over the decades has been ported to dozens of different platforms. The game was followed by Cinematronics’ Space Ace (also produced by Bluth) in 1984, and Stern Electronics delivered Cliff Hanger in 1983 based on two Lupin III anime films.
It was just this clumsy knight (Dirk) entering a wizard’s castle filled with creatures and booby traps, to rescue the fair Princess Daphne.” The castle belonged to an evil wizard who was later identified as Mordroc. In 2016, Don Bluth said, “The game didn’t really have a story. The game was created by Rick Dyer (who came up with the characters of Dirk and Daphne) and Don Bluth and his studio. On March 27, 2020, it was announced that the popular 1983 arcade animated videogame Dragon’s Lair would become a live-action feature film produced and starring actor Ryan Reynolds as Dirk the Daring.ĭragon’s Lair was the first Laser Disc interactive game and the first time that arcade gamers were playing an interactive short movie with classical hand-drawn animation. All the images in this post are from Don Bluth’s “Dragon’s Lair Returns” IndieGoGo page.
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