Programming Director

[Jolly]

You are the programming director for Amazon Prime/Netflix/Disney+/Etc. What projects (series or movies) would you green-light?

[Copper]

Books to movies
Clive Cussler
Kurt Vonnegut

Green light the next Sly Stallone, Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, John Wayne, Bruce Willis, Charles Bronson, Mel Gibson.

I want block busters.

[Jolly]

Which Cussler or Vonnegut?

[Copper]

@jolly said in Programming Director:

Which Cussler or Vonnegut?

All the Cusslers would be about the same.

Vonnegut would be fun to watch just to see how the director tries to make a story out of it. Of course the ones that trash the woke movement would be important.

There are already a few movies from both.

[Jolly]

I would do a series based on the Honor Harrington novels. They're best sellers and are like a Horatio Hornblower in space...ship and fleet battles, political skull-duggery and spy stuff.

I'd do a movie on Sir Arthur C. Doyle's book The White Company, which outside of Sherlock Holmes, was his best-selling work.

I'd also like to see a new movie version of Freckles, the old Gene Stratton Porter book, done as period correct.

And I'd like to see a mini-series based off of the Zane Grey novels, Forlorn River and Nevada.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jolly said in Programming Director:

You are the programming director for Amazon Prime/Netflix/Disney+/Etc. What projects (series or movies) would you green-light?

Yeah, don't ask me that.

I like your picks, though. I'd watch those.

[Jolly]

@aqua-letifer said in Programming Director:

@jolly said in Programming Director:

You are the programming director for Amazon Prime/Netflix/Disney+/Etc. What projects (series or movies) would you green-light?

Yeah, don't ask me that.

I like your picks, though. I'd watch those.

Can't help it, already asked. I suspect you may have some input ( just remember, you're programming for a wide audience).

[Aqua Letifer]

@jolly said in Programming Director:

@aqua-letifer said in Programming Director:

@jolly said in Programming Director:

You are the programming director for Amazon Prime/Netflix/Disney+/Etc. What projects (series or movies) would you green-light?

Yeah, don't ask me that.

I like your picks, though. I'd watch those.

Can't help it, already asked. I suspect you may have some input ( just remember, you're programming for a wide audience).

I wouldn't give a rusty damn.

Hey Arnold! was billed as just another afternoon cartoon for kids—something to pack the timeslot. That's how they got production backing, that's how it was marketed. But the writers had other ideas. They knew there were a ton of kids out there dealing with problems they were keeping to themselves, and wanted to make a show that they could connect to and feel better from.

That's why so many people still respect the hell out of the show. And why people know the name and have completely forgotten about SWAT Kats.

Anyway, I'd try some of these:

• Neuromancer. Each book can be a season.
• Updike's Rabbit stuff.
• Graphic novel adaptations are mostly unexplored territory. Maus, Persepolis, City of Glass, and From Hell would be great fun. Cartoons for adults in art styles no one's really seen much of on TV. Plus the stories are great.
• Ray Bradbury, c'mon down! Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked (properly this time), Green Town as a mini-series, etc.
• Raymond Chandler, John le Carré novels. The modern adaptations so far are doing pretty well.

[Doctor Phibes]

Clive Barkers Tales of the Unexpected

[LuFins Dad]

Robotech...

I'm sure that @Aqua-Letifer and @89th will be able to talk about how it was a Frankenstinian Monster of an Anime and can't compare to it's source materials of Macross or Southern Cross, but this was incredibly different stuff to my generation...Serialized cartoons? With actual plot and character development? Where the characters weren't tropes? A main character died?! HOLY SHIT, did they just annihilate the Earth?! (spoiler alert: they did!)

This was seriously heavy-duty stuff to kids that grew up on Super Friends and Scooby Doo...