If you could produce a big budget HBO series, what would it be about?

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Zanza

#45
July 12, 2013, 01:40:22 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 12, 2013, 01:23:46 PM
Gustavus Adolphus/Thirty Years War would be nice, and a lot of nationalities would get screen time which could be good for ratings. Violence, wenching, unlikely costumes and facial hair...
It's like Game of Thrones in the real world, just without any likable characters and much more grim misery.

Valmy

#46
July 12, 2013, 01:48:19 PM
Quote from: Zanza on July 12, 2013, 01:40:22 PM
It's like Game of Thrones in the real world, just without any likable characters and much more grim misery.

You don't find Cardinal Richelieu likable?
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#47
July 12, 2013, 02:03:03 PM
Quote from: Viking on July 12, 2013, 01:38:37 PM
Quote from: Neil on July 12, 2013, 01:25:08 PM
As awesome as Jutland would be, I'm not sure that it's simple enough for TV, and there might not be enough female characters.

Lots of female characters.. with seamen inside them...

NBO's Jutland starring Clive Owen as Admiral Jellicoe and Karen Gillan as HMS Princess Royal :contract:
It would certainly be shocking when the actress portraying the Queen Mary was blown in half and sunk.
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#48
July 12, 2013, 02:11:28 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 12, 2013, 01:08:40 PM
The Peloponisan War.

That would also be great but if that bumps my Master and Commander series I will be upset with you.

The Brain

#49
July 12, 2013, 02:48:28 PM
Quote from: Zanza on July 12, 2013, 01:40:22 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 12, 2013, 01:23:46 PM
Gustavus Adolphus/Thirty Years War would be nice, and a lot of nationalities would get screen time which could be good for ratings. Violence, wenching, unlikely costumes and facial hair...
It's like Game of Thrones in the real world, just without any likable characters and much more grim misery.

Are you kidding, there's tons of likable characters. The foul-mouthed camp whore with a heart of gold, the roguish cavalry officer with a heart of gold, the Jewish moneylender with a... the Jewish moneylender. Etc etc etc.
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Malthus

#50
July 12, 2013, 02:56:24 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 12, 2013, 02:48:28 PM
Quote from: Zanza on July 12, 2013, 01:40:22 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 12, 2013, 01:23:46 PM
Gustavus Adolphus/Thirty Years War would be nice, and a lot of nationalities would get screen time which could be good for ratings. Violence, wenching, unlikely costumes and facial hair...
It's like Game of Thrones in the real world, just without any likable characters and much more grim misery.

Are you kidding, there's tons of likable characters. The foul-mouthed camp whore with a heart of gold, the roguish cavalry officer with a heart of gold, the Jewish moneylender with a... the Jewish moneylender. Etc etc etc.

Hey, Jewish moneylenders have hearts of gold!  :mad:

They keep them in their strongboxes.
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Tonitrus

#53
July 12, 2013, 05:59:40 PM
Maybe the Honor Harrington series.  Easily digestible as TV would dispose of Weber's tech-fluff.

Troll suggestion?

Turtledove's Worldwar series.

Real, awesome suggestion?

Give Schwarzenegger/John Milius a steady job in a series based off the King Conan comics. 

They'd never do it though.  Well, Milius would.

frunk

#54
July 13, 2013, 12:13:56 AM
A good science fiction/cyberpunk series would be excellent.  The Sprawl trilogy is my first choice, a season a book.  Alternatively take the Shadowrun universe and create an ongoing series.

Alexandru H.

#55
July 13, 2013, 04:43:55 AM
Byzantium 959-969, with Nikephor Phocas as the point of interest.

Battles, sieges, naval warfare, intrigue, religion, revolts, love, treason, crime.

Berkut

#57
July 13, 2013, 10:05:12 AM
King's Dark Tower series.
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Eddie Teach

#58
July 13, 2013, 10:16:39 AM
The Languish Network would lose so much money.
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#59
July 13, 2013, 11:29:22 AM
Quote from: Berkut on July 13, 2013, 10:05:12 AM
King's Dark Tower series.

As long as the series got cancelled before the end.
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