From episode: WixDemoSite1 - Your Weekly Tech Update EP 132 - March 30th 2020
Dragon's lair was a technological marvel when it was released way back in 1983. Instead of using conventional graphics of the day, which were not great at all, it featured real animation by ex Disney animator Don bluth enabled by beefy laser disk storage. It wasn't a particularly good game. All right, it was horrible, but those stunning visuals turned it into a 5 star quarter eater. And inspired home versions on a variety of platforms. The original is on steam right now if you wanted to play it and GOG picked up the dragon's layer trilogy back in 2018. In 2015, bluth and Gary Goldman launched a $550,000 KickStarter project to help fund the creation of dragon's lair the movie. It tanked so they canceled and went to IndieGoGo looking for $250,000 slightly over what was pledged on KickStarter. Now, at this time, they were actually successful achieving their goal in just a couple of weeks and ultimately pulling in more than $350,000. And now, according to The Hollywood Reporter anyway, the project has been picked up by Netflix with none other than Ryan Reynolds in talks to star as dragon's lair hero Dirk the daring. Bluth Goldman and John Palmer Roy, another animator who left Disney to work with bluth are producing this. Netflix confirmed the report on Twitter.