Iain M. Banks' Culture.

I'm deathly afraid of the day some big studio manages to buy the rights and produce a Hollywood version of the Culture. Mostly because it is very easy to flip through the Wikipedia entries and then take the superficial aesthetic of the Culture and misunderstand or ignore the rest.

For an example on how easy it is to do this: I remember vividly when the German translations of the later books came out, and they all had some variation of

The Culture is the galaxy-spanning empire of mankind. Unbeknownst to its citizens however, their supposedly benevolent machine gods are about to dispense with the needs for humans at all"

in the blurb. Someone scanned the wiki page until they read something about "superhuman AI" or the like, then went "ah, got it, I've seen Terminator".

In a similar vein, I cannot imagine that Hollywood would portray the Culture as an unquestionably good Utopia. They'd not be able to resist to paint the luxury gay space communists as "...with a dark secret / actually dystopian /..." tones.

Another season of Firefly

EDIT: Or however many seasons it takes to wrap up the story properly. Also, I'll pay the original actors however much it takes to join the project. And I'll pay makeup artists and VFX artists however much it takes to make it appear like they haven't aged.

Maybe Sarah Connor Chronicles as well. That show ended on a cliffhangwr without resolution.

I’d fund the final three season of The Expanse.

And pay for the Elite Dangerous developers to better support simulators.

Give the original disco elysium team a blank check to do anything they want.

Doesn't need to be a game, books, art, whatever. That team was lightning in a bottle.

I'd fund Larian to create and release creator tools for custom campaigns for their BG3 engine. Then let the community do its thing. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good for a general D&D video game engine.

I'd also request a sequel/DLC for BG3. Specifically, going to hell in search of a heart...

Wing commander, Freespace.

Games of this genre are completely dead. I'd love another decent mission based space flight game.

Kerbal Space Program / Factorio / Stellaris crossover

Key elements would include:
-design a factory/macro-economy to produce aerospace components & weapons similar to Factorio
-using those components, design vehicles that obey real-ish physical laws similar to KSP
-arm those vehicles and use them as units in Real Time Strategy with the option to take First Person control of individual units

~~Mumm~~ Vimes: A Discworld Story. As a series planned with a fixed amount of seasons and as close to the books as possible.

A „The forever war“ movie would also be very interesting. Or a „Hyperion“ series.

Personally I'd love to recreate The Walking Dead but I'd want it made much more realistic, slow paced and with less pointless action scenes. I'd want the zombies being the only unrealistic thing on the entire show. It would focus much more on the survival aspect of the zombie apocalypse. It would show things like loot-runs and base building in much greater detail. Instead of the flashy highlights it would be more about the mundane life in the apocalypse. There would be entire episodes where "nothing" happens.

I imagine it would be an extremely boring show for the vast majority of people, but the tiny niche audience of zombie fanatics like myself would absolutely love it. I'd let other people watch it for free (because why not) but it would be made entirely according to my personal preferences with no regard for how it would be received by others.

The Expanse

Just 3 more seasons to go

An X-Wing and TIE Fighter remake. Yeah, there's the TFTC, but the X-Wing Alliance engine is pretty dated as well. And who knows how far along XWVM is. Why do none of these projects ever get developed as open source?

I'd like to see a foss micro kernal GNUHurd become as mature as linux.

I'd like a serious focus on linux distro and kernel security so I'd fund research and development on those areas.

I'd happily finance another Dredd movie with Garland and Urban working on it.

Double movie trilogy of Star Craft and Brood War filmed back-to-back so there’s one every year for 6 years.

Just started reading through Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy and it feels tailor-made for a game adaptation where the player is a Mistborn for hire before the events of the first book.

I would buy the Warcraft IP from Blizzard, just Warcraft.

I would lobby to bring back as many of the original developers and creative designers as possible into the newly formed Warcraft Company, including Chris Metzen and Russell Brower. (Though, some of those people would be made to sign formal apologies for doing nothing about the dudebro culture that was systemic inside Blizzard long before they got bought out.)

The goal would be to basically remaster the entire RTS franchise using modern hardware and software while keeping as close as possible to the original spirit of the games. Then continue the RTS franchise using the story from the MMO.

The MMO would be recreated from scratch using modern understanding and a modular, highly-adaptable architecture to prevent the duct tape and baling wire situation the current WoW has. The game itself would now feature story content going all the way back to the first Warcraft game. Each “chapter” of Warcraft lore would be a self contained experience that players could stay in forever or progress to the next arc in the overarching tale. There would be simple, single baseline cost for subscribing that included everything so you can decide for yourself which parts to play.

Measures would be taken to make the MMO just as fun and satisfying for casual players as it is for professional gamers. No more pay to jump ahead or even pay to get things that can’t be gotten by regular players. Using real money in-game would probably be completely eliminated. And the Warcraft Company would take an active role in preventing gaming addition and council existing players who needed help.

Outside of the games, other merchandise like art books and novels would reflect and complement the lore of the series to give people even more stuff to learn about and enjoy.

Movies and TV in particular would be a strong focus. A whole new movie series based on the parent games would be made with the same care as the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

(For the record, I like the existing Warcraft movie. But today, it could be done a lot better.)

And TV series would be made to tell more detailed stories about lesser-known events or to follow unique characters through well known events and see their unique takes.

All multimedia content would be free to stream for active subscribers to the online game.

Apps would be made to help players manage their games and access associated multimedia. There would also be an app to help gamers manage their time playing so they don’t overdo it but are still able to participate in limited events they care about.

Then… a theme park!

(I honestly think that if someone went forward with this proposal with reckless abandon that it actually would turn a profit.)

Sonic Adventure 3 with Chao Garden

A roguelike deck builder but with real time combat similar to Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories

Black and White 3

Knights of the Old Republic 3

Ian M Banks entire culture series.

A reboot of Firefly ans Farscape.

If I could say "Here's 84 billion dollars, we're fuckin' doing this..."

We're doing a Battletech cinematic universe, and it's gonna be awesome. We'll start with a trilogy of 100 minute movies based on each of the books in the Grey Death Saga and see what we do from there.

And we're gonna do it as practically as possible. You know how for Empire Strikes Back they built a life size Millennium Falcon? We're doing that at least for mechs that aren't going to move much, for static shots with the actors.

I want to make an 8-bit rpg in the vein of Final Fantasy set in Mesoamerica.

In the beginning you select classes/characters based on historical roles from the region. The class choice designates party roles and gives access to skills that are manually input via arrow keys or d-pad. Those skills drain a stamina resource that is refilled in combat.

I want a magic system that resembles Metaphor Refantasio. Completing achievements/challenges characters unlock forms (stored in mirrors) based on Mesoamerican mythology that give access to spells that use mana points as a resource and a limit break transformation. There will be twenty forms, one for each symbol in the Tonalpolhualli.

I want to write it in Lua so I can give it Balatro like bells and whistles. Or JavaScript because this whole thing is a total fantasy.

I'd buy Magic The Gathering and just make it less greedy

Yeah, I would buy the rights to Kerbal Space Program and Dungeons and Dragons and just make it all free and make the KSP2 we all deserved. Then I'd fund a professional SCP cinematic universe, it basically has to be free because it's a licensing mess of community creations but there are so many stories in it worthy of being part of a high budget serialized cinematic universe.

If moneys truly no object, then buy the Fallout IP, build a new engine with a creation kit that all actually works and is made with ease and stability of modding in mind and then make a high fantasy game with the same engine and let people go nuts. Downvote me if you want but I don't think TES is inherently a good enough fantasy IP (the games have always been better than the central unique overarching plot) to be worth not just starting something new, or better yet, tie it in with the D&D IP I bought earlier.

Wheel of time movies or TV show THE RIGHT FUCKING WAY

A high-art movie where practical effects are used extensively so there are no characters shown. All you hear is their voices and the physical effect on the scene from their actions. Imagine a movie and edit out the people. There would be no known actors used, so the viewer is left to imagine what each character looks like. Voice actors would be selected with as many as possible that don't look like they sound.

It would later be followed up with interviews with the actors. Between the two aspects it could be used as a tool of introspection to understand your biases in perception of others.

It would be such a financial loss, there is zero chance it would ever make money.

Would.love to see a series starting with Alexander the great. but turning into a game of thrones type deal with the war of the Diodochi.

the intrigue and settings would be amazing

the battles would be great

Does anyone remember "Advent Rising" back from the first Xbox and windows live? That was supposed to be a trilogy but was canned after the first game. I'd love to see that remade and continued!

In 2011, there was a lightly steam-punk (Davinci-punk?) Three Musketeers movie with a villanous Orlando Bloom that set up for a sequel. We never got that sequel because only I liked it. It was, by no means, high art. I just like Alexander Dumas.

Ann McCaffrey's Pern series. Teleporting time traveling retro futuristic dragons.

Probably followed by either Footfall, invading octopus elephants, or Ringworld. Which is Halo with 2 headed 3 legged 1 hoof snakes.

A book accurate Dark Tower series. I would love to see the Gunslinger in action.

Stargate SG-1.

Not Atlantis, with their star trek uniforms. Not Universe with their angst and jeans.

Hard, military professionals jaunting through wormholes into alien words they don't comprehend and won't really try to, fucking up local politics and delicate galactic power balances alike in their incessant hunt for really big fucking guns, and Baal clones.

I'd make Eragon as a series, but actually good this time. I like the universe.

I'd want to do a series of shows based on the chapters from World War Z

A sequel to Ex Machina - Ava's experiences in the real world. Caleb has managed to escape, and he's tracking her.

KSP rewrite from scratch with a custom engine.

Super stoked about KSA :)

GNU Theft Auto

VR Black and White.

An open world TMNT game based on the original 90’s movie. It was dark and gritty and the perfect playground to fight the foot from the shadows.

I want a The Magicians video game, or movie, or another show set in the same universe.

buy Electronic Arts

fire everyone exec and up

go private

seek to rehire all of criterion (the real one that made burnout, not the shell today) and black box circa 2000-2008ish

NFS Underground 3

become worlds richest person

seek to rehire all of Bizzare Creations (the makers of Project Gotham Racing, and Blur)

reboot development of Blur 2

become an internet hero for reviving two of the most anticipated racing games in decades

try to buy Ivory Tower, ubisoft doesn't let me, buy ubisoft, end it

become internet hero for killing a bastard of a studio

relaunch Test Drive Unlimited, as an actually good game and not the sack of shit it is currently

no mtx, no paid dlc, no various editions or pre-order shit, full game, $50 max

internet hero

be assassinated by cooperation between MS, Sony and Nintendo

as a ghost: so about Half Life 3...

released

post-mortem internet hero

KSP 2.
It was mismanaged, underfunded, and understaffed.

I'd scrap the mess they have now, hire an appropriate number of people to work on the game, and give them as much time as they need to get it right.

I'd buy controlling share of all three companies that own Pokemon and change absolutely nothing except fund Game Freak to hire more software talent and give them enough time for an actual development cycle worth a damn.