What is WotC really working on in the way of TV shows and movies?
Current Productions: WotC has licensed Fireworks Television, a subsidiary of CanWest Entertainment, to develop a live-action television series based on the Forgotten Realms game setting and novels. No target start date has been announced. Fireworks has been involved in developing and/or distributing such TV shows as Mutant X (for Fox & Marvel Comics) and Gene Rodenberry’s Andromeda, as well as feature films such as Rat Race. Dead or Undead Productions: MCA/Universal, TSR, and Ground Zero Productions were at one point working on a live action + computer animation TV show basically set in the Spelljammer campaign setting and entitled “Wildspace.” This project is dead. Some of the footage from the pilot may have been included in the Sci-Fi Channel’s “Masters of Fantasy” episode about TSR; if so, it was approximately the same production quality as TSR’s videotape-based Dungeons & Dragons board game. The Dragonlance movie, which was being animated by Nelvana, is no more. The deal between TS
