Happiest Showdown release day to @davewielgosz.bsky.social !!! It’s a rad book made by rad humans that’s both brutal and personal and I cannot wait to read more!!

Today’s adventures in writing.

Treasure Planet and Josie and the Pussycats (2000) are examples of how art’s emotional (and monetary) influence lasts beyond the box office and the billboards.

Truly the best thing for the CA elections is the fact that we can see exactly who are funding take down ads and MAN does that really help shape my opinion of the candidates. The LAPD doesn't like Nithya Raman? Excellent, I'm even more excited to vote for her.

If you're in the UK and you've been eyeing The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley, maybe this 40% off sale will convince you to pre-order it? Go on, give your future self a little June treat. They deserve it.

I wasn't allowed to watch things as a sheltered kid, but Speed Racer was very important to me -- not only because of the family, but also because of the KIDNAPPING. @peposed.bsky.social (one of the best humans in comics) continues to be one of the great comic writers AND ALSO CARES ABT KIDNAPPING

I am disproportionately excited about the three new stations opening on the D Line in LA TWO MORE DAYS

I mostly don't but I could make room in my schedule to adapt: any David Mitchell novel Piranesi The Westing Game The Locked Tomb. So I guess hire me if someone is trapped/mostly in one place? Fuck, hire me to write a new Cube movie.

-Wayne -Big Bad Beetle Borgs -The Big O -Terriers I CRACKED IT! Once I remembered how deeply I loved the Youtube Red and then Amazon Prime show Wayne and wish it had continued, I knew I had an elite four.

Lie To Me

I have unironically considered looking into whoever currently owns the IP rights to Cyber Six and making a modern adaptation of it with my own style and sensibility. We live in a time, now more than ever, where we need latex clad trans vampires killing nazis.

The Books of Magic Liberty's Kids seaQuest Earth 2

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is about an "all-american" teenage boy whose romantic pursuits can be seen as fickle but are really comphet attempts at escaping the realities of his close friendship with the local beatnik

Does anyone else remember The Feeble Files? No? Just me?

I've got a few. Some include incredibly underrated ripoffs, like Death Machine (aka Aliens meets Terminator and Blade Runner). Others include underrated concepts like Project METALBEAST (Cyborg werewolf, people! CYBORG WEREWOLF!!!)

This is a deep cut: Interstellar Pig.

I've always been intrigued by the idea of writing good novel versions of the bad movies featured in MST3K

I would write the shit out of a SLIDERS novel

Deadman!

100% certain that I AM the only one who cares about this one.

I want to write a prestige Apple+ streamer of Martha Grimes' Inspector Jury books with a billion-dollar guest star budget to cast the residents of Long Piddleton

I wanna make a series of graphic novel adaptations of Sondheim shows that you read while listening to the album

A Country Practice continuation. Continuing the original premise of small town shenanigans, romance and overtly progressive politics.

Gimme Supreme. I want it. I deserve it. Warren Ellis CAN'T have the last word. I WON'T LET HIM.

I want to show-run an HBO prestige series written from Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. I will need ALL the money because I want ALL the guest stars.

I would fuck with the Brazil extended universe any day.

- 1632 - Gloves are coming off. - The Crossing - I have had an embarrassing number of conversations about this topic. - World War Z - HBO series. Non negotiable. - Sliders - duh.

My remake treatment for Ghost slaaaaaaaps.

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

WAIT I HAVE ANOTHER ONE, HOW DID I FORGET Sharon Shinn's "Samaria" series where sexy angels and humans fall in love and have political intrigue but also God is a spaceship and the angels pray for intercessions like good weather by singing you'd need the right choral composer to make it work

- ZOIDS (specifically the EU version that had a whole back story and was rad as hell) - WipEout - 6 seasons of antigravity racing drama on Apple TV - The New Accelerator - adapting HG Wells going hard with Victorian bullet-time baby!!

I would, and probably will, write a screenplay to remake the forgotten public domain horror picture Dead Men Walk starring George Zucco

I have an idea for a "Jawbreaker" TV series. It doubles as a vicious parody of "Euphoria."

- THE BOOTH AT THE END - THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR by Anne Rivers Siddons - A prestige period drama about the BTS goings-on at SEAQUEST DSV - A workplace sitcom that takes place at the huge bureaucracy that made the Cube from CUBE

I’m more an aspiring writer than anything, I write news but nothing fun. That said if I had infinite money and could buy whatever IPs I want to write new stuff of: - The Last Starfighter - Bioshock - Red Son (the Elseworlds Superman story) - Pinky and the Brain - Cop Rock

Dear Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, please let me write a Venture Bros. comic

I used to really want to write a romantic comedy novel set in the star wars universe

my Silent Night, Deadly Night pitch would put me on several lists

Single season of prestige TV based on the Gamecube horror cult classic “Eternal Darkness” starring Samara Weaving.

Hmm... - Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors - The Wuzzles - Gummi Bears The 1st is just getting that story past the finish line. 2nd is to play w/ that idea a bit. Seems fun. 3rd is 100% to take it elsewhere. I want Gummis in the Modern Day thanks to Zummi messing up a spell & having to get back. = )

Here's a short list: No Ordinary Family Deathstalker Vicious Fun Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman movie)

There will come a day where I will actually sit down and write my mash-up of LadyHawke and Hozier's song Shrike.

-remake of The Bachelor (1999) -revival of the gland stories subgenre of pulp fiction -nemesis the warlock -big red mclane -MTV's Date My Mom -blaster knuckle

I am not a writer, so I will turn this question into "what niche ip do you want to make a game for?" 1. RobotWar 2. Oni (the Bungie game) 3. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

- I'd *love* to update the pilot I drafted in middle school for a sci-fi bounty hunter romp featuring the trans girl from Critters 2: The Main Course (1988) - a novelization of Wozzeck - Motherland: Fort Salem - I've technically written Devil Dinosaur*, but would love a crack @ DD + Moon Girl!

ReBoot The Border (damn that would play so differently with American villains now) Traders (Industry but with low money stakes)

It‘s niche by the IP owner’s perspective: I’ve got an idea for a “Muppets Star Wars” movie. I can’t believe Disney did “Haunted Mansion”, but have not put Muppets into Star Wars at all. I also have an idea for a series of “Yoshi’s Island” shorts in the vein of early Pixar with no dialogue.

just let me get my grubby hands on Rocket Raccoon and Blackjack O'Hare

Hmm. Niche IP? A Triffids story. A Sutter Kane novel. Something set in the same universe as Archive 81.

Eternal Darkness, the criminally overlooked 2002 GameCube exclusive, would make an absolutely sick Lovecraftian horror anthology series and I could name several major organs I’d sacrifice to be able to make it