You're approached by a Hollywood exec...

[Ralif Redhammer]

Agree 100%. If you're going to do Moorcock, especially as live-action, Elric arranged as fall-from-grace into revenge is the way to go. Especially as the Melniboneans are very hate-able.

Elric would be such a meaty role for an actor to inhabit. And the Melniboneans as the villains only resonate more as time has gone by.

I mean, I guess the issue is it was basically half-satire at the time in 1993, because cyberpunk as a genre was (prematurely, as it turned out) on the way out, and honestly as every day passes it just gets closer to real life but not in a very legible way.

It would be very funny to see the anti-woke chuds struggle with Hiro Protagonist though. I don't think cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk really envisioned the level of outright racism and ethno-nationalism the demonologists of the internet would be able to (very intentionally) summon.

For all its satire, Snow Crash was incredibly prophetic. Heck, it's one of the few cyberpunk novels to predict the omnipresence of cellphones (When Gravity Fails also springs to mind there) and wi-fi. And of course, the deep racism (of which it is sometimes, unfortunately, complicit).

I'd enjoy (or at least think I'd enjoy) more classic literature adaptations done with Muppets.

Yess! Give us Muppets Wuthering Heights! A Muppets Poe anthology!

My Ravenloft campaign owed everything to that movie.

Glad I wasn't the only one there. A little bit of Captain Kronos, a little bit of Castlevania, a little bit of classical Gothic fiction, and that was pretty much my 2e Ravenloft game.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

What I'd love to see is an animated take on Six of Crows that's more faithful to the material than the Shadow & Bone TV show was

I mean, to be fair, we never really got to see how "faithful to the material" their Six of Crows take would be, because they were still in the run-up to core of Six of Crows when they got double-crossed backstabbed Netflix-cancelled, having only really touched on the earlier parts of Six of Crows. My feeling is it would have been extremely faithful, because the showrunner absolutely loved Six of Crows, and had personally wanted to start the series with Six of Crows, but had apparently been basically forced into making Shadow & Bone first (unclear who by but reading between the lines Netflix wanted the possibility of a lot of seasons if it was successful, so preferred he start earlier). The reworking that put the Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom elements into Shadow & Bone was his compromise. You probably already know this, but for anyone who doesn't maybe this explains a few things.

Can't help but think Bardugo's Alex Stern books have a pretty good chance of a streaming adaption sometime in the next few years.

 

[Umbran]

Also, there's an unfortunate reality that filming the shows may not be feasible. In some cases, the play simply isn't being performed anymore, and recreating the magic of the original cast/venue/etc simply won't give the results you're looking for.

The American Theater Wing makes professional recordings of every show on Broadway - they just do so for archival history reasons, so that the recordings are typically only available to academics doing research on musical theater.

I'm saying throwing money at getting proper licensing and permission to release those recordings to the public would be awesome. Because, while I understand that you can do great things in transitioning to a new medium, you can also get things like Les Miserables, where they effectively ruined a show with shark-jumping casting.

Most of the shows we want to see were great because of the performances of the original cast, and if you replace Terrence Mann or Roger Allam with Russel Crowe, the result is... bad.

 

[Ryujin]

Elric would be such a meaty role for an actor to inhabit. And the Melniboneans as the villains only resonate more as time has gone by.

My fear is that, in typical Hollywood fashion, they would mistake "meaty role" for "slab of meat in the role." They would need someone with presence, who looks, or could be made to look, like an emaciated albino who can barely carry his own weight.

And with the fact that both "Game of Thrones" and "The Witcher" have already done the white hair look rather extensively, they might be better off starting with a character like Corum. I'm picturing The Wading God scene here.

 

[Umbran]

My fear is that, in typical Hollywood fashion, they would mistake "meaty role" for "slab of meat in the role." They would need someone with presence, who looks, or could be made to look, like an emaciated albino who can barely carry his own weight.

Eddie Redmayne?

 

[Bohandas]

Dungeons of Dredmor: The Movie

 

[Ryujin]

Eddie Redmayne?

He would work, or perhaps Samuel Barnett, though I haven't seen any of his work that I can remember, apart from "Dirk Gently."

 

[Mannahnin]

Elric and Battletech, I'll echo the chorus.

For my pet choice, Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksenarrion would be awesome.

 

[DeviousQuail]

A decent Dresden adaption. I would not call the existing one successful. One season per book.

Same for me, but I'm doing 4 books per season. Each book gets its own 3-5 episode arc. Put in a side story episode once or twice a season. Give me 6 seasons and I'll do all 23 planned books. Certain younger characters can age up more or less in line with how they do in the books. Immortal characters can be made to look the same across 6 seasons.
Season 1 sets the foundation
Season 2 integrates the wider goings on of the White Council, Never-never, and Denarians, etc.
Season 3 ends with Changes, perfect end to a season
Season 4 injects a whole lot of new to keep things fresh and ends with Peace Talks
Season 5 starts with Battle Ground and ends the base series
Season 6 final trilogy

Yes, I've thought of this more than once.

 

[Zaukrie]

Elric and Battletech, I'll echo the chorus.

For my pet choice, Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksenarrion would be awesome.

I almost suggested Paks....