What Shows do YOU want to see??

I would also like to see a TV show...likely on pay TV...where the plot is like "The Sleeping Dragon"

The premise...modern college students or professionals...knowledgeable and skilled...who are playing a fantasy RPG (like D&D)
AND are sent to that world in for real...as those characters.
They'll have the memories, personality and skills of their original bodies...but also the skills & abilities of their new bodies.
Combining modern know-how (without the same resources though) ...with fantasy environ and ability. (including the magic and monsters)

AND life & death in this world is for real too...with life & death consequences. You get killed...you're dead.

Joel Rosenberg did an awesome series on this premise...I'd love to see it translated.

 

Lots of producers and editors...and cameramen who look for the "IT" shot and scene.
Most reality is boring...including those of the "interesting".
But I agree...it would be fascinating all the same.
A reality show on reality shows??
Even self-absorbed Hollywood would appreciate the irony and "inside joke" on that.

I just watched a couple of documentaries on how movies get green-lit and funded. (including one with Alec Balwin, who you'd think had clout)
In one, they noted that Orson Welles said, "It's about two percent movie-making and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life."

 

There's a reason why much of Hollywood is insane...it is not likely because they are liberal artists.
But the stress of so much ambiguity and harshness is significant.
The reasons for their cooky ways are probably two-fold... PTSD...impact from the fight...and it attracts those who feed into that type of fight.

BUT...we have to get our ideas out there.
So who here willing to go hide in a toilet stall to accost a celeb or exec to get our stuff made???

 

Actually, I'd like them to take it further than the last book.
Since he died...it was kind of left hanging...it would be a good thing to expand on
...and in a business context should be easy to get the rights, since no one is doing anything with it.

 

Problem is...that everyone & their mother has heard that same story...and turned around and attempted it themselves.
So I wonder if any Hollywood Execs actually accept tickets by now???
Likely Hollywood/LA has started a process to send it by mail by now. (or email/text)
Well...at least it saves the cops from wasting paper.

"Producer picks up iPhone, looking at his texts...and exclaims, 'Aww shit!! I just got a ticket outside...' "

Craig Ferguson was talking to Jon Favreau on his show...and he said that his fake horse's hind-end has a script he wanted Jon to read.
The reaction and laugh from Jon was classic and real. Those guys must get shit all the time.

Actually, this is not fully right, I do agree it's about money and how much...but it's often about the "fight" for the money.
Two or more parties may have rights. (or at least claim to...)

Ask about the rights to James Bond fight...or what Stan Lee is doing against Disney for the Marvel rights....and so on...

That's why I said, now that he's dead...and it's been some years...and they haven't done anything more...it will be easier.
Not as much conflict of interests.

 

Ok, one fantasy saga which I think would make a great massive movie release to all...and create a new chain. ...Like Star Wars.

David Eddings' Belgariad series
(*and the following Mallorian series...and two followup books)

It is brilliant for the masses...very Archetype, yet original and warm & endearing.
The storyline and dialog is easy to absorb, yet deep.
The characters and banter are fun, funny and yet complex & engrossing.

The Belgariad starts with "Pawn of Prophecy", following a simple boy with his Aunt Pol...who finds himself suddenly thrust into a series of events and quest.
Where he finds out he IS "The One" who will bring down a Mad God...

Oh, how I love reading this series again and again...the characters are so great, the banter is awesome, the lines, the scenes.
Shit, even Disney could do this. (and they have the money and resources to do it right...)

The plot, etc would easily translate to screenplay...I doubt they'd have to do much at all.

I'm thinking a healthy Catherine Zeta Jones as "Polgara"
George Clooney would do an awesome "Belgarath" (with a bit of old man makeup, which would give him his acting angle)
He could bring in Brad Pitt to do "Silk" (but make him look "weaselly" and with a nose...he'd like that)
Do a whole "Ocean's 11/12/13" team connection...you know how Hollywood likes bringing in teams together that worked before...

You want actors that can do funny banter very well...but easily do grandiose and intense too. It is both light and deep.

Belgarion & Ce'Nedra would be a challenge, since they grow up through the series.

And there's background, background, background...so you can reveal each bit by bit.
Method actors would love it...much less producers who know they can string it out and build, bit by bit and then some.
But the typical public could easily keep track too.

It gives me shivers to think of this done well.
I can see the money rolling in too... (again, Eddings has passed ...so getting the privs may be easier, his wife who he wrote with isn't either)

Actually, I'm not the only one...others have been thinking it too. - Link