Medieval fantasy, but with all the power players, no happy scrappy hero pup boy growing up to be a knight, or young girls deciding to be fighters instead of brood mares. The Game of Thrones adaptation comes close to this, except we have the Wall and the White Walkers and junk. I just want to see powerful families stabbing each other in the back politically and marrying off their daughters to assholes and who the hell cares about the poor baker in the village he can die of starvation.
It’s been done with different time periods, but never really in fantasy.
A ten hour marathon Dungeons and Dragons Game!
Who lives?
Who dies?
Who gets sent to the store for more Chili Cheese Fritos and Mountain Dew?
The Day Before–Set in real time on September 10, 2001, it would over the story of a group of people working in a fictional office located on floor 100 of the World Trade Tower. The stories would include a visit from a worker’s fire fighter boyfriend, a woman who just found she’s pregnant after years of trying, and wondering if she should tell her husband that day or wait until the weekend and make it a real ceremony, a person who is pissed beause they need some dental work, etc. etc. Just the mundane day-to-day life of a group of people who may or may not be doomed.
Annie-Xmas, that sounds pretty good. Dennis Leary could make a cameo as a rescuer.
I think it’s a great idea. So how do I get it made, and get money from it?
If the show is successful, the second year would be called The Day, and the fates of all the characters would be revealed: one person is saved by stopping to talk to someone in the lobby, another by deciding to walk to work, yet someone gets to work early to bid on a eBay auction.
It just shows the fickleness of luck.
I would create Nic Cage: the Torture Sessions and it would feature Nic Cage undergoing repeated physical, emotional, and psychological abuse until he agreed to never ever ruin another movie by starring in it.
I would like Randall Garrett’s Lord Darcy stories as a series. I think the computer animation could handle the magic and the standard sets could just be Victorian.
I’d also like to have the Retief stories as a SF comedy series.
A mini-series about Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train’s travelling from Washington DC to Springfield (a period of 23 days).
I’d focus the story on one of the honor guards who had to be “on display” night and day, and the impact the continuous 24 hour a day grieving had on them, especially if they had others in their family die in the civil war. I think there’s a good story here someplace, and it’s an historical event that’s not widely known.
I don’t know if this is possible
I would make a computer animated, action adventure, fantasy/sci-fi TV show, by doing sort of what South Park did with their World of Warcraft episode, (I’ve never actually played WoW). Make a world on a computer program, and create characters in that environment. All specifically designed for a TV program, and not a game. Something that’s mindful of realistic physics to heighten the intensity; (can the protagonist REALLY make that jump?)
An original idea, not an extant book … “Stuff” a ten part documentary about the physical materials that make our world: stone, wood, metal, plastic, semiconductors, glass, dirt, fibers, paper, air and water. (Or something) A “Cosmos”-like series on the glories of inner space, what atoms do for use when they aren’t in bombs, why some things conduct electricity or heat and others don’t, how touch screens work, etc. Diamond mines, rare earths from China, locations all over the world. I know some great visual demos for this. Maybe go Mythbuster on a few things …
I’d be the audient.
You know, I was just thinking about something like Little House, remade, this morning. I wouldn’t mind seeing a remake of Wagon Train. There are SO many storylines and characters. It wouldn’t just be fightin’ off the Injuns and playing the harmonica around the ol’ camp fire (oh, it would have the usual elements; hostile natives, quicksand, lack of food/water). It could sort of be like “Lost: Westward Ho!” The characters: The tomboyish girl who volunteers to get involved in any hairy situation - “I can shoots good as any man, I’m a-comin’ with ya!” The rich city people who lost their fortune in a scandal, are starting out for a new life and have to learn real life skills. The mysterious foreigners who never let anyone see what’s hidden in the back of their wagon. Couple of newlyweds, she pregnant, of course. The two young single men who are developing an attraction to each other (Brokeback Wagon Train), which they find mysterious, exciting, and totally frightening - will they or won’t they? The widow who has a silent young traumatized daughter who hasn’t spoken a word in years. The plain spoken, energetic, extremely witty older lady who has an…interesting…past. There has to be one character who has prescient dreams, who wakes up some mornings and tells the wagonmaster things like, “I dreamed last night about the Red Creek trail and a great black cloud that came down upon it”. Death? Sandstorm? Thunderstorm? Take the Red Creek trail or not? I would totally watch this if it could be raised a notch above the mundane.
I would also like to see a mini-series, a graphic, detailed, accurate story of the Donner Party. Because I have a life-long obsession with the story of the Donner Party.
I’d make a realistic science fiction show that addresses all my peeves about most extant sci-fi. The effects would be top class, the aliens would be realistically alien and the implications of high technology would be more clearly shown.
Oh, and my Wagon Train remake? The finale would be a dramatic two-parter. Not everyone makes it. But for those who do, there would be an epilogue. Freeze frame of each character as they spot the promised land ahead: “Joe Doakes went on to build the city’s finest hotel. He was shot and killed during an altercation in the dining room in 1920.” “Mary Sue married the mayor of Anytown, had 10 children, and started a school for the disabled that’s still in business today.” “Cletus and John hit it rich after finding gold, travelled the world together, and spent their final days in Paris, establishing one of the most famous literary salons.” “Louisa DuTrop converted to Catholicism, started a shelter for fallen women, and is under consideration for sainthood.” Something like that. I love epilogues.