You're approached by a Hollywood exec...

[Dannyalcatraz]

A Paranoia! TV show, with the right writers, could be good. Like The Orwell, you’d need elements demonstrating a good understanding of the sci-fi & comedic elements, plus playing it straight- no laugh tracks.

It would probably work best as a standard sequentially written show, but it would be truer to the source RPG if it were an anthologies series, with each episode being a standalone. (Because TPKs.) Maybe a mix with a few multi-episode storylines per season, or a different storyline each season.

Hell, since the main characters are clones, you could even go quasi-AHS, with the same actors playing different characters…even in different Alpha Complexes.

 

[payn]

If my Battletech pitch isnt enough (and how could it not be?) my second choice would be to pitch a Pathfinder Society series. Use the iconics to tell indy Jones style fantasy stories across Golarion. I'd avoid the APs though, and aim more for society scenarios so the rotation of characters would keep it fresh.

 

[Mad_Jack]

My standard answer to this sort of thing is a The Black Company series...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

My standard answer to this sort of thing is a The Black Company series...

Personally, I prefer his Garrett, P.I. series, but that works too.

 

[NN]

The Continuing Adventures of Fafhrd and Grey Mouser

Tales of the Dying Earth

Korgoth of Barbaria

 

[Atomoctba]

Forgot that lame movie (and bad acting) of Warcraft. Give me a miniseries (not a trilogy) about the fall of Arthas and he becoming the Lich King.

 

[Ryujin]

Forgot that lame movie (and bad acting) of Warcraft. Give me a miniseries (not a trilogy) about the fall of Arthas and he becoming the Lich King.

And without what I assume is game accurate armour, that literally no human could lift.

 

[Bohandas]

It would probably work best as a standard sequentially written show, but it would be truer to the source RPG if it were an anthologies series, with each episode being a standalone. (Because TPKs.) Maybe a mix with a few multi-episode storylines per season, or a different storyline each season.

Sequentially written shows are overdone and overrated

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

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.

Yeah, the role needs a Tom Hiddleston or Timothy Chalamet type build. I wouldn't want to see someone go full-on The Machinist for the role, though.

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.

There is the possibility that Elric could go the route of John Carter of Mars - that is to say, so influential that audiences had seen so many of the tropes in so many forms. But I think that's only if they don't go all-in on it. As much as I like the movie, I think there was a sense of holding back, of not leaning into the pulp roots of it, that didn't help matters.

I always thought Count Zero was rather overlooked. From what remember it would be very streaming/film friendly.

Count Zero certainly opens with a bang (sorry not sorry). With the three distinct narratives, I think it would need to be adapted as a TV series to give each their proper due.

We could use a faithful version of "Johnny Mnemonic", with a proper version of Molly Millions. Dina Meyer got robbed and would have been perfect for the role.

Agreed. Give us a proper Killing Floor.

The Muppets doing “The Raven”- with either Gonzo or The Swedish Chef- would be awesome!

Yes! I could get behind that.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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.

There is the possibility that Elric could go the route of John Carter of Mars - that is to say, so influential that audiences had seen so many of the tropes in so many forms.

Michael Moorcock- if you’re out there reading this- you have a chance to go sooooooooo meta!

Get an Eternal Champion series greenlit, and have actors from those other shows appear in similar costumes as part of flashbacks, dream sequences, prophesies & visions as other incarnations of the EC.

You’d be visually stating that your EC concept predated and inspired those later works.