The original Dragon's Lair was released in 1983 and has been ported to dozens of platforms. Though those entities may fulfill an important role in the process, their involvement also comes with serious strings attached, which can often push and/or pull the story and its design elements, in the wrong direction or even decide to cancel the production all together.ĭragon's Lair's creators say the animated teaser project will take about 21 weeks to complete, a process that will be documented for backers who pledge $25 or more. In order to finance the production, promotion and distribution, independent companies like Don Bluth Films must approach major film studios, private investors, or investment banks for loans and/or equity investment to finance their films. Promoting an animated film could cost an additional $100 Million to market the film worldwide. If you have followed the latest publicity on animated films or checked out you would know that these films, traditional hand-drawn or computer generated can cost anywhere from $55 million to $240 Million, some even more - just on the production.
#DRAGONS LAIR 3 THE CURSE OF MORDREAD MOVIE#
Even if the Kickstarter campaign is successful in reaching its goal, there's no guarantee Dragon's Lair: The Movie will be made, the creators say:Īnimated motion pictures cost loads of money and time. The creators of Dragon's Lair say the film's total budget could be even bigger, thanks to marketing. That short film would then be presented to investors to secure funding for the film's estimated budget of $70 million. Director Don Bluth and producer Gary Goldman have turned to Kickstarter in an effort to raise money to make an animated feature based on Dirk the Daring's adventures.īluth and Goldman, who collaborated on animated features like The Secret of Nimh, An American Tail and The Land Before Time, hope to raise $550,000 on Kickstarter to produce a 10-minute animated Dragon's Lair teaser.
New to the game is the lost and unfinished Blackbeard/Pirate level and the final stage, Father Time's Castle.Dragon's Lair, the seminal laserdisc-based arcade game from 1983, might make its way to the big screen, thanks to a new crowdfunding project from the game's original creators. Two levels previously cut from ReadySoft’s version of Dragon’s Lair II (Wonderland and Beethoven's piano) make appearances as the game’s first two stages. Dirk was not in the house, so he begins pursuing Mordread to restore his home with Princess Daphne inside it. The vanquished wizard Mordroc's witch sister Mordread seeks revenge for her brother's death and captures Dirk the Daring's homestead into an orb on her staff with ultimate goal to imprison Dirk’s family in the Vortex of Eternity. The game also included a newly produced "Blackbeard the Pirate" stage that was originally intended to be in the arcade game but was never completed.
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It mixed original footage with scenes from Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp that were not included in the original PC release due to memory constraints. Dragon's Lair III: The Curse of Mordread is a video game in the Dragon's Lair series, developed by Don Bluth Multimedia and published by ReadySoft Incorporated for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS in 1993.
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