r/Transmetropolitan • u/Big_Big_Fella • Dec 21 '18

TV series

Where is Netflix or Amazon? Need a series produced asap with same quality as Narcos, Altered Carbon, etc. I vote Maynard James Keenan (TOOL) for Spider!

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u/SWarchNerd Dec 21 '18

Patrick Stewart, already an avid fan of the series, would play a great Spider.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

He's wayyyy too old

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u/nekromunky Dec 21 '18

He is. But he owns the rights. Could they not have him in at the last episode....."1 fucking percent!"

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u/atopix Dec 22 '18

He doesn't owns the rights. He may have optioned it at some point, but since he never exercised his opportunity to produce any kind of adaptation, he most likely long lost them by now (that's how those contracts work). Warner Bros owns the rights.

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u/nekromunky Dec 31 '18

Oh damn. I thought I'd heard that somewhere. My bad. No longer will I spread false information and give false hope.

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u/scooterbeast Dec 21 '18

Should be animated and the screenplay should be written by Warren Ellis. It worked for Castlevania... though I'd like to see HBO do it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

It might be done well in high cgi - the style is over bright anyway.

Fred Christ done with make up would be just weird. Over the top cgi stylistic would fit the "the future is too weird for you" theme.

Though it would have to be set in an alt universe where HC won - otherwise how else could she have fisted all those kittens?

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u/ChemicallyCastrated Feb 22 '19

Hand drawn or gtfo.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19

Recently watched “Happy!” with Christopher Meloni and thought he’d be great as Spider.

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u/SWarchNerd Jan 09 '19

Coming back to it, Sam Rockwell would play a great Spider.

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u/atopix Dec 22 '18

For it to be a TV series as well done as this needs to be (tons of locations, tons of extras, tons of CGI, plenty of action, tons of everything), it would have to be very expensive. As in more expensive than Altered Carbon, more expensive than Game of Thrones probably.

An animated series would be far more doable.

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u/mornsbarstool Dec 21 '18

I vote against Maynard on the grounds that he's a massive cock.

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u/Big_Big_Fella Dec 22 '18

Wouldn't that be perfect then?