# "Hey, that Ring movie made money... Let's Rip it Off!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-that-ring-movie-made-money-lets-rip-it-off/145157 "2002-12-27T14:30:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-that-ring-movie-made-money-lets-rip-it-off/145157/41 "2002-12-29T17:00:01Z")
I beg to differ, Tracer, Dragon 280 has the full writeup of the movie characters in 3rd edition form. Unfortunately, it does not have the story I was looking for… I remain fairly to completely confident they were using a beta version of 3rd rules, as I remember reading the article quite vividly… I simply can’t figure out where. I should note that the movie could have been much better, had it not been done with a first time director who had never been through film school. Ah, here we are, Dragon 278, page 62 and continuing. Lee Arenberg, the dwarf, specifically mentions, “I was playing in a 3rd edition game with Dave Arneson.” It’s not the article I was looking for, there’s another one, during filming, not postfilming, where they hype it a bit more. No, can’t find it. I remember them specifically saying that they ran each fight scene through a paper and pen game simulation. Amazingly stupid enough that I remembered it. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-that-ring-movie-made-money-lets-rip-it-off/145157/42 "2002-12-29T17:02:52Z")
In other news, I’d love Prachett, of course. And I think the Golden Compass would be very interesting adapted. I don’t think Game of Thrones would do well, but it’s possible. The problem is, many of the more interesting fantasy novels play fun games with time and space, in flashback and compound storytelling. Not easily writable. Hm. Villians by Necessity, the reverse quest of evil? ---
**Author:** ![CyberPundit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@CyberPundit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberPundit)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-that-ring-movie-made-money-lets-rip-it-off/145157/43 "2002-12-29T17:11:37Z")
The Time cover story on LOTR and fantasy films mentioned a number of other fantasy films that were being planned: " Even as New Line and Warner Bros. (which, like TIME, are owned by AOL Time Warner) churn out Potter and Rings sequels, New Line is already developing a follow-up franchise based on Philip Pullman’s critically acclaimed fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, about the journey of an adolescent girl and boy through alternative worlds inhabited by witches, angels and armored polar bears. Late next year the Sci-Fi Channel plans to air a lavish production of two of Ursula K. LeGuin’s Earthsea novels, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan. The movie of C.S. Lewis’ beloved Chronicles of Narnia is in development with Andrew Adamson, who co-directed the animated hit Shrek, a more comic medieval fantasy. Miramax will shortly begin work on a movie version of the best-selling Artemis Fowl books, a hot contender for the post\_Harry Potter sweepstakes, and the company paid seven figures for book and film rights to the Bartimaeus trilogy, a series of novels about a jinni and a young magician by British writer Jonathan Stroud. Not to be outdone, Disney reportedly paid nearly $8 million for the film, theme-park and multimedia rights to Clive Barker’s fantasy novel Abarat." [http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101021202/amfantasy2.html](http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101021202/amfantasy2.html) I think this is a good trend. At least some of these films should be pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![LoN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@LoN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoN)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-that-ring-movie-made-money-lets-rip-it-off/145157/44 "2002-12-29T19:51:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tanstaafl \* > \*\* > > Come to think of it, either _Lord of Light_ or _Creatures of Light and Darkness_ would probably be loads of fun too… \*\* Heya… first time poster, joined (as did many) because of the “LOTR written by other authors” thread. Just wanted to say that there was a Lord of Light movie planned a while back, and they even got Jack Kirby to do some conceptual drawings. Alas, I cannot find the link right now… but Sam looked a bit like Galactus. If it had been made, it would have been very, very cool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-that-ring-movie-made-money-lets-rip-it-off/145157.md?page=2)