More sense8. I enjoyed it but I fear it was too queer for genpop.
It was insanely popular but too expensive given the amount of locations they filmed. But that’s what made it so good
A proper movie adaptation of the hunger games books. They currently lack so much depth and detail that makes the parallels to the USA clear. Also actual young actors, people don’t realize how young the characters are supposed to be.
I’d love a word-for-word film adaptation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And if I can’t get a film, I’ll take a solid MMO made of it by the same people that made Dark Age of Camelot.
I would hire a ton of artistic, technical, and creative people, both experienced and inexperienced, and I would fund them and encourage them to create novel things.
LEGO Avatar the Last Airbender
Omg! Omfg! Why have I never considered this before. That could be really fun.
I’m sure there is, but they’re unknown to me. I’m not going to fund stuff already owned and made and has a bunch of sequels and spinoffs. I’m going to find and fund something new, something that the other people with money aren’t taking a risk on.
Maybe Rogue System, if I am remembering the name right. It had a Kickstarter that failed to meet the minimum, but God damn it sounds like a bad ass idea. A space sim where you would have to actually re-route power through other systems when the normal link has been damage and basically all the stupid little jargon ideas they do to solve things in Star Trek would be mechanics in the game. If you wanted. It would have had settings for so much shit to make it as arcadey or as realistic as you wanted.
Ambitious as hell, but the developer had videos actually showing off some of the mechanics in action and it was as good as I imagined it could be and I’m still kinda upset that its Kickstarter failed.
A reboot of Firefly ans Farscape.
THE DARKNESS 3
Blueballed for 15 years.
Series? More macross/robotech that makes sense. Macross Plus is the best for many reasons, but mostly because of the coherent plot. Give me awesome mecha, itano circus missile flights, and a plot that’s not fucking stupid. (I can’t stand robotech’s plot, and macross is barely tolerable.)
Game? Master of Magic 2 that doesn’t suck. I’ve seen 2 or 3 spiritual successors but they’ve failed in execution. Keep it simple. Update the original and add a touch of something. Don’t reinvent it.
Movie? District 9 sequel. I don’t know how they’d do it but the movie was so good I want more.
World of cultivation, I’d fund a donghua for that book so fast
Baten Kaitos 3.
It’s a jrpg series. The twist was that it had pseudo-“deck building” turn-based combat where on your turn your had to complete runs within a time limit to attack.
They released the first game, then did a prequel. The prequel improved on the first game massively, but you could tell they didn’t have as much budget.
A third game was planned but never completed. They recently released an HD remaster of the first two games which gives me a little hope, but the series has been overshadowed by the team’s current breadwinner, Xenoblade Chronicles (Shulk from SSBU).
Oh man, I would love a 3rd game! I started replaying the first two recently. Had to grab a pad of paper to note down all the side quest stuff I was finding. It brought me right back to the good old days.
Fix up The Hobbit into 2 movies, with more practical effects, or at least more subtle cgi.
Make it six movies to really let Tolkien’s totally necessary interspecies romance room to grow.
Maybe a slightly different take but… I always thought the Queensrÿche album Operation: Mindcrime could have been an interesting movie.
I’d probably try to get that made/fund that as a project.
Ringworld and its sequels The Ringworld Engineers, Ringworld’s Children, and the Ringworld Throne, with some less-dated attitudes. I mean I’m not totally opposed to rishathra as a concept, but just a few tweaks here and there to catch up with modern attitudes.
If money really wasn’t an issue, the entire “Known Space” series. A chance for some really good CGI with Pierson’s Puppeteers, Kzin, and all the specialised post-human races living on the Ringworld. And Thrint, Slavers, Outsiders, and so on.
Then there’s the first-contact “The Mote in God’s Eye” and its sequel “The Mote in Murchison’s Eye” AKA “The Gripping Hand”. Another opportunity for some interesting three-armed CGI aliens.
Oh, and “Footfall” - an alien invasion story. These aliens look somewhat like baby elephants 😲
A sequel to Ex Machina - Ava’s experiences in the real world. Caleb has managed to escape, and he’s tracking her.
