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

Started by jimmy olsen, July 12, 2013, 10:51:58 AM

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Josephus

#30
July 12, 2013, 12:33:08 PM
 I know they once considered doing The Talisman, the Stephen King/Straub collaboration. Would love to see that.
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merithyn

#31
July 12, 2013, 12:50:13 PM
This, this, a thousand times, this!



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#32
July 12, 2013, 12:50:56 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 12, 2013, 10:51:58 AM
HBO gives you a Rome/Band of Brothers sized budget and your choice of book or what have you to make a TV series from, what do you chose?
Hmm, Band of Brothers "Stalingrad Edition" maybe.

Sheilbh

#33
July 12, 2013, 01:00:45 PM
Maybe Gormenghast.

Or an American Heimat.

Agree on the French revolution, maybe a version of Mantel's Place of Greater Safety.
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Kleves

#34
July 12, 2013, 01:05:28 PM
Stalingrad would be good. Maybe a Midway series set in real time. A WWI 'Band of Brothers' series would also be cool.
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#35
July 12, 2013, 01:06:19 PM
Tristram Shandy.
and the horse you rode in on

Alcibiades

#37
July 12, 2013, 01:10:37 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2013, 10:57:09 AM
My show would be call "The Surge", and in 10 one-hour episodes would cover the surge in Iraq from March 2007 to March 2008.

Too bad the surge lasted until July 2008 and the heaviest fighting of it took place in March-June of 2008, dipshit.


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#38
July 12, 2013, 01:16:36 PM
It's ok, you can't kill them all. Well, barring the technology to smash a huge meteorite into the earth that is.
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#39
July 12, 2013, 01:20:44 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on July 12, 2013, 12:30:16 PM
Quote from: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on July 12, 2013, 11:44:15 AM
Quote from: Neil on July 12, 2013, 11:01:36 AM
Dreadnoughts.

I would love to do a movie in Jutland, or a series on the entire naval war.

Dept of Redundancy Dept.

Needs to actually get finished first. :P

The Brain

#40
July 12, 2013, 01:23:46 PM
I'd say the life of Charles XII, but not enough sexy time for HBO. 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...
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Viking

#41
July 12, 2013, 01:24:22 PM
Batgirl: Year One - or at least loosely based on it. 5 year arc ending with "The Killing Joke" and/or Babs running for congress. Smallville rules would be you never actually see or meet Batman himself to keep him mysterious and she never finds out his identity (or at least she finds out very late). Themes to explore the two "fathers" Order (Gordon) vs Chaos (Batman), what gotham needs frightening criminals (batman) vs. inspiring regular people (superman), how to deal with great power batman vs bruce wayne.

Keep her enemies on the retail crime level, she is a slight of build young female after all and have her lose fights. Ideally leave the issues unresolved for each episode - the junkie has a relapse, the abused wife returns to the husband, the bad cop is emboldened and the good cop loses heart. The core theme would be that only the city itself can save itself and it needs to be inspired to do so. The police and batman can only deal with symptoms. 
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Neil

#42
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.
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#43
July 12, 2013, 01:34:38 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 12, 2013, 01:00:45 PM
Maybe Gormenghast.

Or an American Heimat.

Agree on the French revolution, maybe a version of Mantel's Place of Greater Safety.

Gormenghast was actually done.  ;)
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Viking

#44
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:
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.
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