You're approached by a Hollywood exec...

[Dioltach]

"The Stainless Steel Rat" or "Lankhmar".

 

[Kromanjon]

Fading Suns.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The Play that Goes Wrong

I’ve seen several performances by that troupe, both live and televised. Brilliant!

 

[delericho]

Spelljammer confirmed!

I make no claim it would be successful, but if they're mad enough to ask me what I want to see, that's something I think would be cool. I would, of course, be insisting on actual Spelljammer, not the version currently bearing its name.

(It might not count, though - "Babylon 5" is pretty much Spelljammer already. )

 

[Ryujin]

I think it's time to nerd out in a different direction: theatre.

Let's start a movie series dedicated to Broadway and off-Broadway plays, adapted to the screen for the first time.

Hamilton
Avenue Q
Hadestown
Book of Mormon
Legally Blonde The Musical
Pippin
Firebringer
The Curious Instance of the Dog in the Night Time
The Play that Goes Wrong
Teeth The Musical
Evil Dead The Musical
The Last Starfighter The Musical

Release a new musical once a year. Non-musicals interspersed. For continuity and humor, keep the same conspicuous background actors and chorus (folks like Erik Charles Nielsen, Lindsay Hollister, or James Hong) as much as possible, but have the main cast be new as much as possible.

Someone did "Evil Dead: The Musical" a few years back.

 

[Ryujin]

It occurred to me that the Childe Cycle series, by Gordon R Dickson, would make for a good movie series. Pity he never got to finish the last book. Maybe there's an unpublished manuscript kicking around?

 

[briggart]

I second Battletech, Lamora, and Malazan.
I'd also love to see Deus Ex, starting from Human Revolution, or Dishonored.

D&D related, True Detective: Sharn.

 

[Dioltach]

It occurred to me that the Childe Cycle series, by Gordon R Dickson, would make for a good movie series. Pity he never got to finish the last book. Maybe there's an unpublished manuscript kicking around?

And this reminds me of "Hiero's Journey" and "The Unforsaken Hiero" by Sterling E. Lanier. Rangers, priests, psionics, druids, psionics-enhancing machinery, evolved animals and plants, evil psionic sorcerers, a giant intelligent slug...

So much promise, so much frustration that he never continued the series.

 

[Cergorach]

What do you want us to do?

First give me a very big compensation package...

Others have mentioned Battletech, Shadowrun, or 40k. I would personally have a long list of other properties, but the problem with that is that it's either too similar to other successful franchises (Heavy Gear => Armored Trooper VOTOMS) or it's a novel series that just doesn't have that much potential beyond the story that the books told and might not be the best adaption for a movie or tv/web series (The Black Company). And doing another generic fantasy franchise just isn't going to work I think (something like Pathfinder). Something like Starfinder or Dragonstar might be interesting if they really lean into the fantasy sci-fi instead of making another SW clone...

 

[Umbran]

So never......i there is more than enough there already for tv.

The difference between Lynch and Martin is that Lynch still wants to publish, but the man has challenges that a TV series or movie would make notably worse.

Note: Grimdark Magazine #40 and #41 have Lynch's return to the Gentlemen Bastards: Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent.

Grimdark Magazine #40

Grimdark Magazine presents the darker, grittier side of fantasy and science fiction. This issue features Christian Cameron, Gautam Bhatia, Aquila Cadens, Chris Panatier and Eric Malikyte.

www.grimdarkmagazine.com

Grimdark Magazine #41

Grimdark Magazine presents the darker, grittier side of fantasy and science fiction. This issue features Scott Lynch, Andrew Stewart, and Justin Lee Anderson.

www.grimdarkmagazine.com