# Movies that you'd like to see become TV shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 13, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883 "2005-08-13T18:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/1 "2005-08-13T18:36:57Z")
Inspired by [this thread:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6470621#post6470621) Which movies do you think deserve TV show spin offs? I always thought that _Without A Clue_had an interesting premise. The Sherlock Holmes mysteries are actually solved by Watson, and Holmes is really an actor playing the role. I would have liked a whole series of their adventures. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/2 "2005-08-13T18:46:38Z")
I think the characters on “Breaking Away” could make for a good series. It actually WAS a series for only a few episodes, but only three of the original actors came back (out of a cast of six principals and several more supporting). ---
**Author:** ![MadderMitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@MadderMitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadderMitch)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/3 "2005-08-13T19:06:27Z")
_Fearless Vampire Killers_ ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/4 "2005-08-13T19:19:21Z")
X-Men would be an incredible show. Especially if it was given an HBO type budget. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/5 "2005-08-13T19:34:12Z")
Unbreakable, the weekly series. “Nuf said. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/6 "2005-08-13T20:31:49Z")
Thoughts on the suggestions posted so far: \*\*“Breaking Away” \*\* : Well, if its already been a TV show it doesn’t count. \*\* Fearless Vampire Killers : \*\* Maybe, I’m not familiar with the film. Do you think there’s enough material for a series there? \*\* X-Men would be an incredible show.\*\* And The Incredibles would be an X-men show. Boom-boom. But an X-men series would probably be a spin-off of the comic, rather than the movie. **Unbreakable** I’m not sure if you were joking, but I think the movie took the story as far as it could usefully go. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/7 "2005-08-13T20:34:42Z")
I bet HBO or Showtime could do a kickass job of turning **Glengarry Glen Ross** into a series. If the actors were really good, I’d like to see it. If the actors were teevee prettyboys, I’d like to avoid it. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/8 "2005-08-13T20:36:49Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > Thoughts on the suggestions posted so far: > > \*\*“Breaking Away” \*\* : Well, if its already been a TV show it doesn’t count. How about, “I’d like for it to have been a TV show at some point in my lifetime.” ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/9 "2005-08-13T20:37:37Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > **Unbreakable** I’m not sure if you were joking, but I think the movie took the story as far as it could usefully go. No, I was not joking. The very wide grin was meant to represent my facial expression at the thought of such a thing. At the end of the movie, we find that he really is superhumanly strong. However, that doesn’t meant that he is going to actually pursue a career as a hero, but I doubt that he can resist springing into action, should he hear about some hostages being taken. The series could simply address his refusing to play along with superheroe clichés, but still have him rescuing people. After all, the entire movie was just one big origin story. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/10 "2005-08-13T21:02:45Z")
It was a very good film, but the story has been fully told. It was really the story of a comics-obsessed geek searching for a real hero. Now that one has been found, there’s nowhere interesting for the series to go. The Bruce Willis character isn’t interesting enough to carry a series. In my opinion, YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/11 "2005-08-14T05:11:16Z")
**Lord oof the Rings**. No excuse to snip Tom. No excuse for butchering up the storylines. Full detail into the politics of Minas Tirith instead of a lone Fiddling-Nero madman upon the walls. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/12 "2005-08-14T06:29:58Z")
I think the upcoming film _Serenity_ would make for a hell of a weekly series. If only the right network could be found for it. Maybe Fox would be interested? ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/13 "2005-08-14T13:33:06Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > But an X-men series would probably be a spin-off of the comic, rather than the movie. It wouldn’t as good. Too much baggage. The movies, WAY better than the comics, had minimalized all of the extra stuff that has bogged down the X-verse. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/14 "2005-08-14T13:34:48Z")
CORRECTION: It wouldn’t _be_ as good. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/15 "2005-08-14T13:37:31Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > It was a very good film, but the story has been fully told. It was really the story of a comics-obsessed geek searching for a real hero. Now that one has been found, there’s nowhere interesting for the series to go. The Bruce Willis character isn’t interesting enough to carry a series. In my opinion, YMMV. I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Besides, who say the series has to be about him? How about making it a fact of life that he request people from disasters, and occasionally stops a mugger, and show the reactions of police men, rumor-ongers, government agents trying to track him down, and etc? ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/16 "2005-08-14T13:53:07Z")
I don’t think Willis would be in the series, anyway. He’s way beyond TV. I think he would be replaced by Scott Bakula. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/17 "2005-08-14T13:54:09Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > \*\* X-Men would be an incredible show.\*\* And The Incredibles would be an X-men show. Boom-boom. But an X-men series would probably be a spin-off of the comic, rather than the movie. [Mutant X](http://www.mutantx.net/) was the X-Men in all but name, though, wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/18 "2005-08-14T14:16:56Z")
> [@ExtraKun](#): > > **Lord oof the Rings**. No excuse to snip Tom. No excuse for butchering up the storylines. Full detail into the politics of Minas Tirith instead of a lone Fiddling-Nero madman upon the walls. Well, they didn’t want the movies to be even longer, plus have them be boring and laughable with that ridiculous aging hippie character. I think they did a fine job updating the books for modern moviegoers, adding a bit of much-needed humor and trimming some of Tolkien’s florid fat. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/19 "2005-08-14T15:05:09Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Well, they didn’t want the movies to be even longer, plus have them be boring and laughable with that ridiculous aging hippie character. I think they did a fine job updating the books for modern moviegoers, adding a bit of much-needed humor and trimming some of Tolkien’s florid fat. What you say is right. But if they do it for TV, then they might be able to find a way to work it in… ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883/20 "2005-08-14T18:51:57Z")
I’m somewhat dating myself, but I’d say that [**Red Dawn**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087985/) could be worked into a feasable series. Telling the story from a kid’s point of view how WWIII played out. Good for character development over the series. Chances for awesome firefights with those damned Soviets. And lots of potential for that USA! factor. Tripler Well, it popped into my mind since I saw the rerun this past weekend. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-youd-like-to-see-become-tv-shows/316883.md?page=2)