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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Engilbrand" data-source="post: 4088737" data-attributes="member: 44184">I will definitely agree with a Drizzt movie. The books have consistently been bestsellers for a long time. Homeland, Exile and Sojourn would definitely be the best places to start.Mark Dascascos is a great martial artist and a good actor. The problem? He's too old. Drizzt is around 50 last I recall, but he's barely more than a teenager for the Drow. I think that you need a young, early 20s, skinny black actor to really do Drizzt right. It might require bringing in an unknown as nobody is springing to mind.Other than that, I could definitely see an Eberron movie doing well. I don't know how the books are, but I do plan to read them. It would bring people in by how different it is.Picture this from a trailer:A beautiful young woman is running through a packed marketplace. She's obviously scared. She's carrying a bag with symbols on it. As she looks around her, she sees a lot of different people paying attention to her. Some of them are obviously Elves or Dwarves. Some of them look like monsters. She rounds a corner and slams into a 6 and a half foot tall Warforged. You see her start to crab crawl back with a surprised look on her face. When she gets up and turns around, she comes face to chest with a massive half-Orc with a snarl on his face. He grabs her, turns her around and tells her she's under arrest for stealing from the Temple of Dol-dorn and for the murder of a priest. He looks at the Warforged with a smile and a "Good job, partner."Surprise. Eberron messes with preconceived notions. There's so much that could be done. I think that it would be cool done as a crime story. Those 2 cops happen upon the beginnings of a holy war as members of the Church of Vol attempt to destroy the Church of Dol-dorn. Warforged, Shifters, Orcs, Vampires. Eberron has the best chance at wide appeal. It would hit the fantasy crowd, the pulp crowd and could easily hit the sci-fi crowd. After doing what I put up there, it could start flashing through little clips from the movie. A Dragon landing. An Airship flying. The Lightning Rail.While Drizzt would bring in the fantasy crowd and most of the people who have read the books, Eberron would bring in a lot of different people. Hell, throw in a love story between the half-Orc detective and a Shifter or Changeling and you'll even get a large number of women interested who wouldn't have been interested before. Make it a trilogy and it has a lot of stuff it could accomplish. Or turn that pitch into a TV series and actually make something new for a change. As much as I like the "Angst-ridden immortal/vampire detective/private eye trying to find love/his humanity", it would be nice to see a crime show done in a fantasy world.For the record, here's a list of most of the shows that jump to mind based on what I have in quotations there- Forever Knight, Angel, Moonlight, Blood Ties, New Amsterdam. What am I missing?</blockquote>

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