Oh my! We’ll see if something comes of this, but it all sounds quite promising. With Game of Thrones moving towards its last two seasons, I think people are definitely looking for materials to make another hit fantasy TV series. I think The Black Company has the right mix of spectacle and grit, so it wouldn’t be completely and horrifically expensive (as much as I love the Malazan Book of the Fallen, for now I think it’s too high-magic to be done as a TV series, and too much material to be done as a movie or movies).
For my part, I always thought of Croaker as looking somewhere between Bruce Spence and Hugh Laurie. Not sure where that came from, as his character descriptions are often pretty minimal.