I want a prestige HBO remake of Moby Dick. Six seasons. 10 episodes each. They don’t actually leave on the boat til S3 (at earliest). And a couple times a season, there’s a gorgeously shot hour-long doc that contains literally not a single correct whale fact
What other prestige HBO content do I, personally, desire? Well,
1. Ludicrously overbudget Ballet Russes period drama - Timothée stars as Nijinsky - huge S2 subplot for Stravinsky (Adam Driver)
2. The Master & Margarita - 7 eps - Cuarón directs, somehow
3. Reptar: On Ice
1. Ludicrously overbudget Ballet Russes period drama - Timothée stars as Nijinsky - huge S2 subplot for Stravinsky (Adam Driver)
2. The Master & Margarita - 7 eps - Cuarón directs, somehow
3. Reptar: On Ice
4. Ursula Le Guin anthology series - S1 is “Left Hand of Darkness” - Chiwetel Ejiofor debuts as Genly Ai - (marginalia: consider possible title “AMERICAN HAIN STORY”???)
5. “The Third Man,” reshot entirely in the fake mall in the basement of Barbra Streisand’s house
5. “The Third Man,” reshot entirely in the fake mall in the basement of Barbra Streisand’s house
6. It’s like “The Crown” except it’s about Tove Jansson - except it’s intercut with an animated retelling of the Moomin stories, drawn by Studio Ghibli - Tilda Swinton stars, probably - 46-second-long Gary Oldman cameo as Eero Saarinen
7. A documentary classic remade for a new generation- Koyaanisqatsi IV: 𝑶𝒚! 𝑨𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒒𝒂𝒕𝒔𝒊 - Zero Mostel narrates.
8. Thinly veiled retelling of Auden, Spencer, and Isherwood’s time in Berlin - but they fight crime too - shot on location - working title: TRADE PAPERBACK
9. Cinematic adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson “Red Mars” trilogy - heavily inspired by Z (1969) - also shot on location
9. Cinematic adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson “Red Mars” trilogy - heavily inspired by Z (1969) - also shot on location
10. The Master of Go, dir. Baz Luhrmann
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12. THE MUSIC MAN; book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Wilson; directed and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen
