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I think the only medium Lunar hasn't been made in is some sort of live show. Otherwise, it has video games, comics, novels, and an anime movie.

Mother 3 would probably make a wonderful movie. It's tragic, it's got plenty of action, and it has an amazing story with great characters. Those first two are part of Hollywood's criteria, right?

Princess Tutu's already a meta mess, so Lohengrin's story has already been told in a number of ways, most notably the opera of the same name. But the anime itself? Well, it's already a ballet. Put that thing onstage.

Hmm. It's transferable in a few ways. There are already novels coming out - first one in three days actually, COLOUR ME NERVOUS - and jokes (whether serious or not) about a possible movie. There's been fan-made comics, and someone met with the creators/producers about turning it into a video game once, though I think they decided against it in the end. It would work in that medium though, as an RPG or straight shoot-'em-up.

I will continue to hold out hope for a film, because it would be awesome (but unlikely to happen). To retain the general hilarity of Mars though, as well as the random acts of violence, I would lean towards it being a quality video game. Think Grand Theft Auto, only in England, and much funnier. With Gene Hunt.

Damn, I want this now. D:

Alex thinks hers would be a play. It starts out all literary, and devolves into a farce.

Half-Life would be an ongoing comic book series that changed pencilers and inkers after the first six issues and the defeat of the Nihilanth, and then went on hiatus when the writing team got distracted by screwball side projects/had a nervous breakdown/both at the end of HL 2 Episode 2. Half-Life: Opposing Force and Half-Life: Blue Shift would be one-shot companions, or possibly three-issue miniseries companions, to the first six issues.

Fallout 3 would be a cable TV series. I wish I could say I trusted SyFy to make it; really they're the best of a bad lot, because God knows if it were made on HBO or Showtime or something there'd be epic smut to go along with the epic violence, and I can't deal with that prospect.

Dragon Age 2 strikes me as a good candidate for an extended miniseries. Possibly it ought to be made in England as an ongoing DA series, so that DA: Origins is the first series, DA2 is the second series, etc. Can't vouch for the side material like the novels or The Silent Grove, though.

The King Must Die: epically expensive miniseries, and this one does belong on HBO. Get the people who did Rome to come in and work on recreating Bronze Age Greece, and get ready for the FCC to explode when we get to Crete. If the first goes well we'll see about filming The Bull From The Sea later. Not sure who'd be playing Theseus, because he has to be five feet tall, or Hippolyta, who's about a foot taller than him, but we'll worry about that later.

Ghostbusters: Oh, dude, c'mon. It's already been a movie, a TV show, a couple of video games, a comic book- what do you want me to do with it otherwise? Broadway musical? Radio drama brought to you by Quaker Puffed Oats and Quaker Puffed Rice?

Team Fortress 2: Professional wrestling. Seriously. Take the guns away and make all the characters color-coded wrestlers. You can get a storyline out of that, and God help you if the Heavy comes after you.

Mass Effect 2/3: Just... just go ahead and put it on SyFy. And hire J. Michael Straczynski to run things, because I trust him. And because I think he'll be willing to find a way to get rid of Kai Goddamn Villain Stu Leng. I don't care if that's a spoiler for anybody, Kai Goddamn Villain Stu Leng is the second worst thing to happen to Mass Effect 3.

Planet of the Apes: Already been novels, movies, TV series, I think a comic book although I'm not sure... Make it a collectible card game. I'm pretty sure we can get a good card game out of it if we try.

...I would pay good money for it to become a radio drama.

just sayin'.

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I'm surprised Ghostbusters ISN'T a musical.

... Ghostbusters should ABSOLUTELY be a Broadway musical. Somebody get on this, please.

The only reason I can think of that it hasn't already happened is that the rights or the special effects (or more likely, both) would be prohibitively expensive.

But still. WAAAANT.

Fantastic Four has been a comic, a novel, a movie, a manga and a TV show. I am also sure there has been a radio or audio version. But there hasn't been an Opera and I think the canon is perfect for it. Think about the arias Ben can sing as the tortured man-monster, think of the glorious villainy of Dr. Doom, the love of Reed and Susan and the mischievousness of Johnny.

Spider-Woman would make a fun Bourne Identity type spy thriller but instead of one agency she can be hunted by two!

And I'm stalling now so maybe more later.

A Fantastic Four opera actually sounds pretty awesome.

I... basically have no idea.

If we take the franchise as a whole, My Little Pony has already had several toy lines, one-arguably-two movies, four and a half separate TV shows, audiobook things, comic books (with another in production), trading cards of negligible canonicity (slightly below the pink Celestia, in my book), iPad apps, at least one rather disturbing live show, at least two official video games, innumerable fan-made things... Cam, do we beat Ghostbusters yet?

My other canons are difficult, not because of lack of remaining options, but because they're video games. You can do movies based on books, or vice versa, or either based on TV shows (and back), as Star Trek and Star Wars have shown. But video games are more difficult to translate; movies based on video games and video games based on movies don't generally work very well. And that's because, as I think Yahtzee pointed out once, they're two completely different kinds of storytelling. Most full-length video games, you get maybe an hour or two of story interspersed among ten or twenty or more hours of game, and the rest of it is about collecting all the coins or beating up the opponent or exploring the world or whatever.

Aha! I've got it! Dreamwidth RP! That's the answer.

Robin Hood's been numerous books, movies, TV shows-live action and animated, comic books, video games-casual ones but I know of at least two and started as ballads. I don't know what else it could be.

X-Men started as comics, have numerous movies, animated TV shows, lots of live action shows that were inspired by them, but I'd love to see an actual X-Men TV show. It could go two ways either more teenage/school based like the animated show and along the lines of Vampire Diaries or much harder and HBO with the focus on the adult mutants.

Discworld is another that already exists in a lot of forms, but I do love the idea of Moist's books as a video game. It would be RPG and puzzle focused since the idea is to not do any violence since if you do, the stakes get higher. Or even make it a Hidden Object type game, you need to find everything for a forgery, have to do it so well, convince someone to take it and get out in time, it would need to have a stronger time limit than they normally do, but I'd play it.

The Abhorsen Chornicles would make a great miniseries or series of movies though you would need to have the effects people get that the idea isn't to have the magic be showy.

Becoming Jane is already a movie and there's a whole genre of non-fiction and fiction about I wonder what if for Jane Austen. I don't think it needs another adaptation.

3:10 to Yuma began as a short story and has had two movie adaptations, it wouldn't really work as a miniseries, not enough story for that. Though it would be interesting to see about making it a play since all of the emotional part is intense enough that you wouldn't need the backdrop.

Greek Mythology has been interpreted in just about every medium possible beginning with the plays of their era, then poetry, art, movies, TV shows, lots of books. I can't think of what's missing or of a new interpretation.

Chronicles of Narnia has had a few movie adaptations, at least one TV miniseries adaptation, which is one of my favorites, multiple books written about it. It would be interesting to see it turned into a play along the lines of The Lion King.

The Pirates of Penzance is an operetta that's had many stage productions, one movie and slipped into the public consciousness in a lot of ways. I'm not sure what other form would work for it.

Tomorrow's my first day of school and I'm going to have to get into the habit of waking up really early. I'm excited and terrified.

I believe there was a Chronicles of Narnia stage show at one point. I've got some of the songs from it.

Oh cool, I was wondering if it had been since there are shows of Tolkein's work.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords would be a TV series, either animated or live-action. Probably aimed at a teenage or young adult audience, because they seem like they'd get a kick out of Philosophising/Politicising In Space (And Sometimes Violence. Objectivist Violence).

Wait, damn, now I want to tally up the different philosophical/political viewpoints the characters all represent. The main villain is Objectivism, though! That much is Very Obvious.

Garo: Makai Senki - I'd say it'd work well as a video game, but someone made a Garo video game, and it was awful. But a proper hack-and-slash RPG type affair where you play as Leo (I AM NOT BIASED GUYS) would be good. You'd have his swordplay, magic and martial arts as his three upgradeable skills (along with the standard stats), and then RODO would be his super mode thing.

Leonardo I can't really imagine as anything other than a CBBC TV series, to be honest. It's very well-adapted for its format.

Harry Potter has been pretty much everything already.

Let's see. Runescape is a MMO that concentrates on "present day" Gielinor. Well, at least the year 169 of the Fifth Age. I don't really get how time works in Runescape -- the seasons tend to come and go, but the days and years? I dunno. An overview of the story of the Third Age is told in a turn based strategy game. There are also novelizations of a series of events that were supposed to happen before 169 5.A.

I suppose the whole canon could stand a Silmarillion-ish treatment, but besides that, I could see comics or an episodic cartoon. Some of the master level quests could be action movies. I don't know how well such movies would do, due to Runescape's rejection of the whole class thing. The main character would be archetype breaking, which may be good, but it may also stretch believability. How could a youngish adult have had the time to master archery, magic and swordplay? But anything that isn't focused on the player character could do well without so much believability questions.

Edited 2012-09-03 16:40 (UTC)

Warehouse 13 has tie-in comics and a novel, to say nothing of the official webisodes; Percy Jackson nominally has movies, but they changed the plot of Lightning Thief so much that I have to wonder how the hell they're going to do Sea of Monsters; Soul Music specifically has an animated adaptation (kinda cheesy, but the music's excellent); Harry Potter has been all of the things already. (Though the Aurors TV show being an actual thing that happens? Would be AMAZE.)

Soul Music, I should note, is one I really want to see done in the current set of live-action miniseries.

Once Upon a Time... would probably have to be a comic book to really preserve the flashbacktasticness.

And last but not least: I really really really really really want Villains By Necessity to be a movie. Not least because if it happens soon, Neil Patrick Harris is actually the right age to play Sam convincingly. (Other mental casting includes Felicia Day as Kaylana, because I am nothing if not fond of look-alike casting shenanigans, and Ian McKellen as either Mizzamir or Blackmail. I can't decide which.)

King Arthur canon has been told and retold in everything from epic poetry to video games. If there's a medium it hasn't been told in, that's only because that medium hasn't been invented yet.

The Hobbit has been a novel and a few animated TV specials (with various degrees of quality), and I've no doubt once the new movies come out there will be tie-in games and Legos and a LOTR-the-Musical style treatment, too. The fact that they're doing a life-action adaptation now is pretty exciting--I can't imagine a better Bilbo than Martin Freeman.

The Avengers ... hasn't been on ice yet?

I sense a theme.

The History Boys has been a play and a movie. Aside from making a series following the boys through university, I don't see what other media it would lend itself too.

As for the Green Man, once you've been a religion, everything else just pales in comparison.

The Avengers ... hasn't been on ice yet?

Like this? ; p

I was thinking more Ice Capades, but that works too.

*adds to Toys wishlist*

Is it bad to have a Cap ice cube?

And I knew you were talking Ice Capades but I couldn't resist the ice cube tray that showed up on a google search. = ]

I sure hope not, because I want one.

"Rescue Me" was originally conceived as a possible movie before the creators developed it into a TV series. So I think it would be interesting to see what they'd envisioned, condensing Tommy's life and the 62 Truck crew's experiences into two hours or so.

But now I just want a stage musical. And since it won't happen, by God I will write it.

Spielbergesque action/adventure film.

Would go see this. How about Peter Jacksonesque?

Also, live action or motion-capture?

You know, it would be awesome if this were made into a Disney film since the characters already look Disney, but. Live action would be cool, too!

I just say Spielberg because while it is fantasy, there's a modern sensibility/sense of humor to it that wouldn't feel right in one of Peter Jackson's films, if we're talking about Lord of the Rings. He'd make it way too high fantasy if that were the case. If you watch or play the game, it does pretty much come off as something more akin to Indiana Jones than LotR.

24 probably lends itself best to a video game; possibly a first-person shooter, but I could see lots of opportunity for more story options/character creation along the lines of Mass Effect or similar.

ME is a good comparison because everyone would hate the ending to 24 the video game.

Invincible is a comic and a motion comic (which is like a cartoon, only with less movement). It would be best as an actual cartoon or a movie. Although they'd have to tone it down a bit (the comic gets a bit gory in places).

Not being terribly familiar with the dude's canon, I assumed he was from a cartoon.

I can't see Blazing Saddles working as anything but a movie. That being said, I could perhaps envision a Police Squad style TV series. And I'm surprised the all-but-inevitable Broadway version hasn't been made yet.

McCabe was originally a novel before Robert Altman adapted it into a film. These are the only two media for which the story is suited.

I suppose Borgel could be made into an animated series. It'd be the kind of show that has a really dedicated core audience of adults and teenagers that gets canceled after two and a half seasons.

I don't think there's any medium that Doctor Who HASN'T been adapted into already.

I could imagine Command & Conquer being made into a fun explodey action movie. Dollars to donuts that it ends up focusing primarily on Havoc from Renegade, though.

This is kind of cheating because there are already three of them, but Myst is just about ideally suited for a book series.

Edited 2012-09-03 19:32 (UTC)

Heroes had a comic tie-in, which is about the only medium I can think of, as the show was practically a comic in live-action tv form. Unless you had a musical with Hiro singing "Yatta!" and dancing around New York set pieces and Peter Petrelli and Sylar having a duet about how fucking special they are while Sylar tries to gnaw on Peter's skull.

Anyway.

Parks and Rec has a tie-in book that's a real world version of the book on Pawnee that Leslie wrote. I... don't really know what other medium I'd put it in, but it's sometimes funny to think of it as a West Wing-style political drama.

Grim Fandango has no tie-ins because sad :( But to me playing it has always been like watching a movie except a little more interactive, so I've always wished it would be adapted into a movie someday. I also think a fan wrote a hardboiled detective novel-style adaptation of it.

As for A:TLA/LoK... well, let's not talk about the live-action movie route. It's also had comic tie-ins, video games, and I think a roller coaster? I don't know, I just want to get my hands on a flying bison stuffed animal at some point. But if this were genrebending, I'd make LoK some kind of Revolutionary Girl Utena. Because yes, that is obviously a genre unto itself.

I would watch the Heroes musical and with what's been made into musicals lately, it could happen.

I agree so much :P

I would love to see a live-action Grim Fandango, with everyone wearing Dia de los Muertos facepaint instead of being skeletons. (The demons would have to be CGI, or maybe puppets, if you wanted to go old school.)

Psych would be an old-school detective radio show.

Futurama would be a live-action sci-fi show with hokey props and wobbley sets, a la early Doctor Who. Or a serial pulp novel.

And Brisco's canon would be a dime novel.

Edited 2012-09-04 00:41 (UTC)

Codex Alera would probably make a great live action epic--maybe TV series, to give it room to breathe. Or a video game--though really what I want to do is make a tabletop RPG for it.

Smallville by itself has had tabletop rules, a comic sequel, at least one tie-in novel, and was a live-action TV series. More generally, the DCU... er. Yeah.

Though now I'm wondering what a musical episode of Smallville would have looked like, and am really, really sad that never happened.

I could Psych as a radio play too... like HHGttG meets Agatha Christie Mysteries. Though I would love to see it as a comic book series.

And Burn Notice? Totally comics. Because if it was a movie you know they'd go all Michael Bey summer blockbuster on it and just slightly increase the level of random shots of women in bikinis and huge explosions. *slightly*

I think Once Upon A Time would be a beautiful movie.

Reno911 is a mockumentary, a movie and a flash game already. It clearly needs to be an underground comic book.

Brisco Already has canon meta, as

gypsyjr pointed out. It would, however, be a 30s serial. Come back to the theater every week to find out how Brisco makes it out of this one!

Psych Would be a 40's musical that crosses Singin' in the Rain with Arsenic and Old Lace. I like the idea of it being a radio serial, too, though!

My Little Pony Would be a manga (Fanart's already been there and done that, but I think it'd be adorable).

Edited 2012-09-10 05:59 (UTC)

And now i can't help but see Reno911 drawn by R. Crumb.

...DO WANT.

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