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Was thinking about David Cronenberg’s Scanners today. It could make a good series I think.

What movies do you think would work well as a recurring tv series?

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[–] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Truman Show. I’ve practically developed the first three seasons in my mind already.

[–] inspxtr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

maybe a tangential implementation is “Jury Duty”

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're actually making a TV version of Upgrade (the 2018 film). The same creator is involved so it could be good fun.

That’s great news. I loved the movie but it didn’t get a lot of attention.

[–] mPony@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That's the best news I've heard all day. We re-watched Upgrade this week and it really holds up.

[–] lori@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess I'm starting with a book technically but Battle Royale would have made a better TV series than movie, the movie doesn't have time to delve into that many characters and the little side characters are what made the book so good.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I’m surprised it hasn’t been done, considering Squid Game’s success with a similar dystopian survival game show plot.

[–] ytsedude@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Serenity.

(I know Firefly was already a show. I want more... 😭)

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago
[–] ComptitiveSubset@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Dune. You can’t capture the complexities of that book in a movie. You can smudge a lot details into scenes of Timothée Chalamet staring intensely at beautiful CGI scenery, but it misses a lot.

[–] mPony@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Primer.

They could change the events to keep it fresh, maybe even change the characters (they do seem to do that). and create a whole new mind-boggling maze of timelines. As long as they explained who was from which timeline I'd be happy.

[–] Guapomole@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Loved primer. You could have whole episodes of them messing with each other with time travel during the power struggle.

[–] waterplants@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Inception

(hard mode: say Tennet is same world)