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By Rann
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JimK wrote:
Hmm. Here’s one I think would be MUCH improved by conversion into a series.
Movie: There Will Be Blood
Concept: Follow a robber-baron oilman around the west and south as he rapes and pillages the land, towns and anyone or ahything else what gets in his way. Son splits from his father and starts a competing venture that uses the latest in scientific advances to get at the oil. The show pits the old ways against the new, the young against the old, father against son. 5 year arc exploring various aspects of the world of early oil exploration, violence in the business, relationships destroyed by black gold, how ignoring fresh ideas leads to stagnation and death, etc. The series ends precisely at 5 years with the death of the father in a bowling alley at the hands of the son.
Hackneyed? Maybe. Kick-ass scene on which to end? You bet yer ass it would be.
Format: Hour weekly drama, 22 episodes to run one a week until they’re gone.
Starring: Ian McShane as the oil baron, and in some dream casting, Ryan Gosling as the son.
Channel: FX first (believe it or not I think some restraint would make the show better…), Showtime (...although it would be cool to see Ian McShane set loose on language again), and barring those, CBS.
By the people that brought you: Deadwood MINUS Milch. Everyone else is welcome to join the team, just not him. Fuck that guy and his surfing show.
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digger wrote:
Movie: Saw (i, ii, iii, iv)
Concept: And the story goes on. With jig saw dead, a new puzzle master rises. Each week a new trap, some will not live, others will wish they didn’t. In a new city will anyone be able to catch this new killer?
Format: 1 Hour weekly, 4 years.
Starring: If we can get the cop from iv, great if not anyone will do.
Channel: Hard to say who would be best (HBO, SHO) Maybe someone new, encore, skinamax.
could be worked to be on FX, where you never see blood. Or in that case if you never see the traps go off, NBC or CBS.
By the people that brought you: Saw, who else would be able to keep this story going as well as they have.
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West Virginia Rebel wrote:
Movie: Hellboy
Concept: Continuation of the movie series
Format: 1 Hour weekly
Starring: Ron Perlman (I can’t really think of anyone else)
Airs on: Sci Fi
Movie: The Bourne Identity
Concept: The further adventures of the world’s most dangerous human weapon
Format: 1 Hour weekly
Starring: Wentworth Miller
Airs on: USA Network
Movie: The Dark Knight
Concept: Based on the rebooted series.
Format: 1 hour weekly
Starring: David Boreanaz as Bruce Wayne/Batman
Jensen Ackles as The Joker
Airs on: The CW
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MunDane wrote:
While not a prequel, I would love to see a series of MOW, called “Avengers: Origins”, explaining the origins of the lesser-name Avengers that are needed for an Avengers big screen movie
-Ant-Man and Wasp
-The Vision
-Scarlet Witch
-Quicksilver
-Hawkeye
-Black Panther
And the Stars
Nathan Fillion as Hawkeye
Melinda Clarke as Scarlet Witch
Kirk Jones as Black Panther
Patrick Stewart as Vision
Morena Baccarin as Wasp
Alan Tudyk as Ant-Man
Kevin Sorbo as Quicksilver
Imagine this a series of six MOW happening every two weeks leading up to the Avengers release. The CGI for these could be at the Hercules/Xena level as none of these has awe-inspiring powers, but you need them and their backstory for the Avengers movie to succeed.
I also know of no reason why this wouldn’t work for a Justice League of “...and all that stuff” movie.
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DonnaK wrote:
Movie: Somewhere in Time
(Quick background on the movie since I doubt many here have seen it. 1980 film staring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. It was based on legendary horror writer’s genre bending sci-fi/time travel/horror/romantic drama novel “Bid Time Return”. Reeve, a playwright named Richard, becomes obsessed with a portrait of dead actress Elise in a hotel lobby and wills himself back in time to find her. The movie is both romantic and beautiful and yet tragic and full of weird and horrific things.)
Concept: In the movie Reeve’s character only gets to travel back once in time to meet the object of his undying love. I would have Richard be able to travel back multiple times to three different time periods in Elise’s life - turning points that change her and her life’s course. Each time he travels and stays in the past it takes a toll on his body, and eventually he has to choose between one final journey and almost certain death. He chooses to go back and dies at the end of the show. I would make this a visually unique show with totally different looks for the past (1920-1930) and the present. The past would be shot slowly with few edits and through almost cheesecloth for a soft effect. The present would be color saturated and have quick edits and odd camera angles. Imagine Jane Austen meets McG. I would add greater emphasis to the time travel and have it occur more frequently to entice the guys and yet hold true to the romance to entice the girls. Everyone wins. 
Format and Channel: Three short season runs - no more than 11 to 13 episodes a season - on FX. Each series covers one of his trips back to one of the crucial time junctions and each ends with the horrible damage these travels are doing to his mind and body. At the end of the third season Richard dies so there is an absolute end to the show.
Starring: James McAvoy for Richard for his ability to emote so well… and he’s done TV in England before. Kate Beckinsale for Elise - she has to be both stunningly gorgeous and a great actress and Kate fits the bill.
By the people that brought you: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I want new people, fresh blood that want to make this series their landmark and first big footprint. I want young hungry people who aren’t already jaded and who have a vision that you don’t see in TV much these days - you’ll need it to pull this off right.
There. That one obscure enough for you? 
Rann: Movie: (The movie you want adapted.)
Concept: (Tweaks from movie to series. How does it fit into movie canon, if at all. All that stuff.)
Format: (Hour long, half hour, miniseries, movies-of-the-week, etc.)
Starring: (Got a TV star to stand in for the movie characters? Or want to do an entirely original character cast?)
Channel: (The network it should be on. Probably not gonna see Fox a lot.)
By the people that brought you: (If you’ve got a series you like, and think the same creators could do this product justice.)
Yuri: Ooo, ooo, me first! Me first!
Rann: Shoot.
Yuri: Movie: Iron Man
Concept: Billionaire Tony Stark has a lot to do that doesn’t fit into the confines of a movie screen. Corporate finagling, protecting his intellectual property, and oh yeah, occasionally saving the free world as Iron Man.
Format: Hour-long
Starring: Charlie Sheen as Tony Stark
Rann: Wate wut?
Yuri: Look, I’m sticking with the theme of substance abusers with charisma, how does this not make sense?
Rann: Fine, fine, close enough for TV work. Forgive me, continue.
Yuri: Starring: Charlie Sheen as Tony Stark, Erica Durance as Pepper Potts (not sure, might be too young), and either Avery Brooks or, when he gets out of rehab, Gary Dourdan as James Rhodes
Rann: Dourdan and Sheen are much closer in age, a year apart as opposed to well over ten between Sheen and Brooks, but Brooks would definitely be able to pull off a “stern older brother” vibe that Dourdan might have trouble with. Dourdan would also have to clean up in other ways… no way that hair’s gonna fly on anyone in the armed forces, and it’d take awhile to get used to it.
Yuri: Channel: Preferably Showtime. They’re probably kicking themselves for giving up Stargate way back when, Iron Man might be their chance to hop back on the special effects action series bandwagon.
By the people that brought you: Stargate: The Ark of Truth
Rann: Not bad, not bad. Some difficult casting issues there, and that’s probably about as good as anyone could get on them. Now I’ll give it a go.
Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean
Concept: Could go one of two ways. Like the series of young adult books out right now, this could be a prequel. Young Jack Sparrow running around in a world bursting at the seams with old-style magic. Makes casting a lot easier, too, just get someone that could theoretically grow into Johnny Depp someday. Or it could be post-World’s End, with Will as captain of the Flying Dutchman, and Jack and Barbossa running around constantly trying to one-up each other.
Format: Hour long
Starring: Prequel: Find some up-and-coming young guy that hasn’t ruined his recognition by appearing in WB wangsty dramas and give him a shot. If he can do a reasonable (read, not overblown) Depp-as-Sparrow impression, he’ll be a heartthrob in no time. Sequel: I… really have no clue, it’s times like this that made me wish I watched more TV. But toss Jaime Murray in there as a psycho pirate chick, that could be fun.
Channel: Sci-Fi Channel
By the people that brought you: eureka! Since the show practically works with magic anyway, and manages to stay nicely internally consistent. They’d just have to resist the urge to explain the magic too much in Pirates.
So, shoot. Your thoughts, your own answers (to ours or to your own movie-made-series), go!
06/25/2008 12:24 PM
Categories: Movies, TV
Tags: tv