George Orwell’s 1984 - set in 2034 London, you wouldn’t have to use much imagination to be honest, it’s basically writing itself.

george rr martins wild cards series.

political ramifications of aliens testing a mutagenic compound on earth

perfectly setup 5-10 episode vignettes

There were talks about a Monkey Island movie. But it had terrible timing since disney planned on making the Pirates of the Caribbean at the exact same time. Doubt there is much demand for it now though.

Peter F. Hamilton’s The Nights Dawn trilogy.

His other space operas as well.

100% red dead it’d make an incredible HBO show.

Scud the Disposable Assassin and La Cosa Nostroid by Rob Schrab and Dan Harmon.

I mean Dan has already played around with concepts from Scud and LCN in Rick and Morty as well as Community but I would absolutely love if he teamed up with Rob again to do a Scud series that would naturally tie into La Cosa Nostroid.

At the very least I’d just be happy if Dan would finish La Cosa Nostroid like Rob finished Scud after a 20+ year hiatus.

I would love to have some of the Dwarf Fortress stories yo be made in love death and robots styled stories.

Like the story of The Elf King of the Dwarves, Cacame Awemedinade Monípalóthi or the entire story of boatmurdered.

The concept of the movie “In Time” imo has the potential for a decent series.

Yes.

I think Mistborn would make an awesome HBO-type series, even though the series is mostly PG-13. There’s fantasy violence but no sex. The series was inspired by Star Wars (specifically, the Force) and has a similar target audience, though it’s medieval, not space.

I’d love to see The Dark Tower series get adapted as an anime, specifically by the studio that did Attack on Titan. The series would be unfilmable, even for HBO. Japan wouldn’t flinch though. The only thing Japan really flinches at is sex, though they’ve let up quite a bit over the years. And LGBTQ+ stuff — and yes, I’m aware yaoi/yuri (same-sex sex stories) exist. I also know that they’re taboo in Japan, big time. Even shounen-ai/shoujo-ai (same-sex romance stories) are heavily censored, like in Yuri on Ice when the two guys kiss, the camera pulls away. They couldn’t actually show two cartoon dudes kiss, but you 100% knew they kissed. Genitals can’t legally be shown at all (they use light most of the time, like a stray beam of light covers it up) due to Japanese censorship laws. But all kinds of violence? Fair game. And the act of sex can be shown from a distance and without certain detail, so the scene where someone bangs a demon to keep the others safe? Perfectly fine as long as it’s not shown up-close and in intimate detail. Rest of it would be fine for Japan/anime and in line with what that studio has done (particularly with that series).

Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

Hot green people, aliens, politics, action, etc.

Becky Chambers Wayfairers series (The Long Way to a Small and Angry Planet and subsequent books). I would love to have that cozy sci-fi as a series.

I’m biased and my favorite series (Stormlight Archive) isn’t done yet but anything by Brando Sando. Warbreaker, Mistborn, or Elantris would all be really good as movies and/or series.

• “The Winds of War” and “War and Remembrance” both written by Herman Wouk have more than enough story to provide a 50 episode show.
• “Fatherland” by Robert Harris could be a great mini series.

Honor Harrington series, but with the caveat that I would WANT the showrunners to muck about with things a bit. The world building is intensely deep (or at least broad) for a military-sci-fi space opera, especially once that’s also transparently “Horatio Hornblower in space”. I particularly like that with where I am in the series, for all of the huge stakes we are dealing with, there is also a powerful sense that we’re still dealing with provincial powers playing on the edges of the playground. Then, in many ways Honor herself is an amazing and progressive lead character, and even as a dog person I would kill and die for Nimitz.

That said, there is a powerful and unnecessary strain of “silly liberals, the real adults are talking” 1998-ish Neocon politics running through the POV characters and an extremely – almost distressingly – gentle treatment of a

Then, Honor is an absolute and unapologetic Mary Sue; it’s occasionally obnoxious, though the author puts her through the wringer to try to make up for it. I also can’t quite shake the feeling that while I, as a cis-het man can’t know for sure, she sure seems to suffer from a peculiar variation of “woman written by a man” syndrome where many of the traditional issues with that sort of thing are “overcome” by simply writing her the same as a pulp hero of a man, but one who occasionally gets crushes and worries about looking pretty. I’d actually love to know others’ takes on that point.

The plot rhythms are repetitive in that way that long-running series of pulpy genre fiction can be, but I think with a little more care put into the PTSD and conflicted emotions the characters must be feeling, and with a bit more of a modern and even-handed exploration of what warfare must mean to a society, the books could make for really good bones to hang an excellent plot-driven “competence porn” show that could be elevated by good performances and carefully curated character beats.

It would be expensive AF to make it look good, though.

Mark Z. Danielewski’s - House of Leaves