 Given the possible demand, Buena Vista Games brought in Obsidian Entertainment, a game developer, who pitched a video game focusing on the Dwarfs' similar ancestors.DTS executives were not feeling that the two franchise launching projects were coming together well enough that they turned to Mike Disa, who worked on the Tinker Bell movie story.Disa and Evan Spiliotopoulos pitched a "Lord of the Rings"-style epic for the dwarfs while "connecting seamlessly" with the original movie, which was given permission to move forward.