What ideas do you have for taking a work of fiction and putting it into a new setting or genre? Ones that have been done include:
They ought to make Seven Samari into a Western.
They ought to set High Noon in Space.
They ought to make Ring of Fire (song) into A Punk Rock Song.
One I’d like to see is:
They ought to make Dracula into an Opera
They ought to make “Lord Of The Rings” as a game show.
Answer wrong and the Nazgul get you. The goal or payoff of the game would be keeping your finger when you are inside Mt Doom. Maybe winning eternal life and the Dwarves treasures, too. And of course, all the “Barkers Beuaties” type girls would be Elvin.
Just a thought.
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There were plans drawn up for a Middle Earth theme park…
An old Not the Nine O’Clock News gag: Watership Down: You’ve read the book, seen the film… now try the pie.
Damn, I must need sleep because these are all cheesy, but here goes:
Flash Gordon, the gaudy 1980 Dino De Laurentis produced turkey with music by Queen, would make an interesting Broadway musical. Hell, it already looks and sounds like one. Tommy meets Rocky Horror meets Starlight Express.
Super Troopers as a weekly sitcom. I should have hated that movie, not my usual thing at all, but that kind of goofy stupid rude humor with those characters in half hour bites could work.
Reggae cover versions of Buck Owens songs.
The songs of the Doors done as a glitzy Las Vegas stage show: The Lizard King Lives! “Touch Me” always sounds like a Vegas song to me anyway.
I have seen Dracula, The Musical! at a local playhouse.
Which reminds me, Dolly Parton DID record Stairway to Heaven.
Yeah yeah, and Mae West recorded “Twist and Shout”, and William Shatner recorded “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and “Mister Tambourine Man”.
There was a vampire opera, written in the mid-nineteenth century (well before Stoker wrote his novel). In a greatly changed form, it was adapted and taped and ran on PBS a few years ago.
“Spaceballs the T-shirt. Spaceballs the lunchbox. Spaceballs the coloring book. Spaceballs… the flame thrower! Kids love this one. And my favorite, Spaceballs the Doll - me!”
– Yogurt, Spaceballs
I have to second the vote for a Super Troopers TV series, though it would have go be cable (did you notice the difference between the R-rated and G-rated monkey logos?)
With Linda Carter in a recurring role as Governor of Vermont. Rrrowr!
I’d like to see the guys who drew the Batman animated series take on Watchmen as an R-rated (or at least PG-13) miniseries epic.
Brimstone, the animated series would be seriously cool if the Spawn cartoon guys drew it. I’d prefer the show just be brought back in live-action, but what you gonna do?
Speaking of Watership Down, it occured to me that that book might work as a play, like the Lion King, with people in stylized costumes that just suggested what animals they were supposed to be. It would have to be “PG-13” rated, keeping all the blood and violence that is in the book, so people don’t just end up laughing at it.
Ringworld as a ice show. Mostly because I’d love to see a Puppeteer on skates 
Ringworld as a ice show. Mostly because I’d love to see a Puppeteer on skates
Anything that gets Linda Carter back on TV is a good idea. Yummmm…