Which Franchises/Movies You Think Should be on TV

[Shifty]

Jurassic Park would have amazing potential, but would probably be so watered down that you'd either get one good looking dinosaur per episode or a couple bad looking dinosaurs.

I could see 3 seasons out of a limited cable series for Jurassic Park.

Ghostbusters has had animated shows, but I'd love to see a live action series.

Perfect for a workplace comedy, it doesn't have to be large scale like the movies but just the day to day stuff. Sweeps episodes could have bigger ghosts and a ongoing storyline. It could even be an mockumentary to make it easier for the writers.


Blader Runner: adapting the movie and novels into a cable series.

About Time: just saw this last night but I think would make for a terrific TV series. The men in a certain family have the ability to travel back in time to any point in their lives. Some try to get rich but end up miserable others use it to help their love life, prevent something bad from happening or spend more time with family or just have fun. Sometimes complications come up through the Butterfly Effect.

The movie only featured a son and a father but some uncles or brothers could be added with flashbacks to the grandpa and you would have the potential for a series to do one story but three different ways. Very funny film but could be done as a dramedy or something very dark if desired.

 

[Vapor]

There's some good choices on here like Star Trek, Men in Black, Ghostbusters, Matrix and X-Men..

Off the top of my head, a few that I can think of are..

Source Code
Adjustment Bureau
Dark City
Cube
Push
A-Team (I know the movie didn't do too well but kinda surprised by this)
Lost In Space
The Mask
Evolution
Drop Dead Fred

The biggest one that I can think of and am most surprised by not happening (although I guess it has to do with the rights and everything) is..

Harry Potter

They could do it live action or animated and could run one season for each school year/book and rather than focusing too much on the Harry/Voldermort plot they could focus it more on the school aspect and basing it around either the supporting characters or create some new ones, for the show.

Each series could be intertwined with the Harry plot thread though and have it running in the background and could have him "cameo" from time to time (re-cast of course) but use it as an opportunity to show what all the other kids get up to while Harry and Co are off doing their thing. They could feature book specific stuff each series too, for example bring in the Dementers as a season arc/villain in season 3. It could also be a way of including more school lesson stuff like the learning of magic and minor plot points that some fans felt were missed or left out from the films...

 

[warhorse78]

Hitgirl (Kick Ass is lame, nobody likes him, they like Hitgirl)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (cartoons mixed with real life)

The Last Action Hero (I like the idea of a magic ticket that takes people into the movies, and the movies coming to the real world)

Also in the same light, not a movie based idea, but a music video based idea, from Ah-Hah's "Take onto Me" where real life people are interacting with characters in a comic book.

Cliffhanger (based on the day to day's of a mountain rescue unit)

Django Unchained (the adventures of two bounty hunters consisting of a former slave and German immigrant)

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Starship Troopers (a war with space-bugs and a satirical edge to boot... c'mon)

RoboCop (without comment)

The Warriors (a prequel series set in crumbling 1970's NYC with crazy, colorful thematic inner-city gangs taking on other crazy gangs and a crooked police force)

Tombstone: The Further Adventures of Doc Holiday (go back in time to get skinny and young Val Kilmer to play Doc Holiday again, just going around drinking, gambling and messing up other peoples' days)

 

[Merlex]

1. Terminator- give us back The Sarah Conner Chronicles, or something new to do with Terminator.
2. Heroes For Hire- it's not likely that we'll get a movie with them, but there should be enough draw to carry a series.
3. Star Trek- I want the Earth/ Romulan War.
4. The Punisher- Fox had planned to do this series, but it got canned. Good, do it on FX, AMC or HBO. They could give us the real Punisher.
5. The Midnight Sons- horror is big on tv right now. Ghost Rider (Dan Ketch), Daimon Hellstorm, Blade, Werewolf by Night, and Jennifer Kale. Nuff Said.
6. Stargate- franchise needs a new series.
7. Conan- based on Howard's work.
8. Firefly- a new series with new characters, based in the same universe.

 

[PimpDaddyDOC-OCK]

Leprechaun
Hellraiser

 

[James]

I scanned this nearly two year old thread and didn't see it, so I'll suggest a Lethal Weapon TV series. I watched the films recently and while I don't think a movie reboot would be too great (or wanted, personally) I definitely feel like there's enough basic story there to structure 5-7 seasons around.

To keep things interesting I think the Riggs/Murtaugh friendship would have to develop very slowly, as would Riggs mental state returning to something halfway sane. A show about the straight-laced family man Murtaugh being forced to partner up with a suicidal nutjob, Riggs, could potentially make for some very cool television.

 

[Soapy]

Only if it stars Mac and Dennis.

 

[James]

 

[Teelie]

A reference to two characters from It's Always Sunny in Philiadelphia who did exactly that, only one of them did it in black face.

 

[James]

Ohh, I see! I've never seen It's Always Sunny, thanks for clearing that up!

 

[Maximus One]

Seriously, Unbreakable. I wanna superhero drama that is just like that movie with just as few characters with powers. Also, with the rising popularity in turning movies into shows there is just a ton of untapped potential. Stuff like Donnie Darko, Dark City, A Scanner Darkly, The Prestige etc. Stuff like that, is just primed for it. Especially given how good 12 Monkeys has been. What about a Fight Club series? Hell yea. Natural Born Killers, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Hell, that last one would kill in the ratings just for the simple fact that it is Fear and Loathing, people would eat it the hell up.

 

[dude stannis]

Alien. Not necessarily the creatures, but the world they inhabit. Seeing what it's like for Colonial Marines and Weyland Yutani employees.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Seriously, Unbreakable. I wanna superhero drama that is just like that movie with just as few characters with powers. Also, with the rising popularity in turning movies into shows there is just a ton of untapped potential. Stuff like Donnie Darko, Dark City, A Scanner Darkly, The Prestige etc. Stuff like that, is just primed for it. Especially given how good 12 Monkeys has been. What about a Fight Club series? Hell yea. Natural Born Killers, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Hell, that last one would kill in the ratings just for the simple fact that it is Fear and Loathing, people would eat it the hell up.

Most of these wouldn't work too well as a TV series, honestly, but if you were to take Fear and Loathing and make it like a broader adaptation of Thompson's work (such as one season being about his book on the Hell's Angels, another being Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail), that would be pretty great I think. Just a TV show of Las Vegas would be eh. Unless we're just talking about a miniseries or something like that.

 

[Maximus One]

Well, yea but, with all that's been going on lately with turning older movies into series and the way they've done it, I think I can see everything I listed working just fine. Like 12 Monkeys and Fargo, both shows have done a great job of taking the source material and expanding on it heavily and, in the case of Fargo, improved upon it. In my opinion, of course. It wouldn't be hard at all to take such simple premises and expand on them to make them their own thing. Hell, I didn't even mention Hannibal or Bates Motel. I've been saying for a while now that there are just tons of movies out there, with very simple yet engaging plots that, if developed and expanded upon further correctly, could be great. Add A Simple Plan and Very Bad Things to the list. I mean, if all these shows can do this and do it so well, why couldn't there be an A Scanner Darkly or The Prestige series? Those were just ones I was throwing out but it seriously would not be all that hard.

 

[<(o_o)>]

Maybe a revival of a Captain America series once the movies are finished. Isn't Civil War the last official movie aside from Cap's appearances in Avengers 3?