Your Dragon Age Movie/Netflix Series Pitch

I'd explore Ferelden gaining freedom from Orlais. Maric and Loghain and their fight. A good old fashioned fight for freedom for the uninitiated and a known bittersweet telling of an old tale for us all here. Meaning, we know the good guys win, but we also know how it all ends up...Loghain leaving his best friends son to die.

A new story with original characters that goes to places we haven't seen in the games. They should be travelling around the world for some reason. Game characters could have cameos, but the story shouldn't focus on them, and the plot should be personal, focussed, and self-contained from the events of any of the games or supplementary material.

Set it post-Inquisition, with the backdrop being a world adjusting to the new independence of mages in Thedas.

And it should probably be animated.

A few ideas off the top of my head:

- a mage from the new independent circle and a templar (or former templar) work together to pursue/investigate a series of attacks on high-level members of both organizations.

- a retired thief is hired by the chantry to track down his former partner in crime, who has stolen an ancient magical artifact from the Grand Cathedral in Val Royeaux, for reasons unknown.

- a Tevinter slave is forcibly possessed during a blood magic experiment, and flees to Southern Thedas to escape his fate as a human weapon in the war against the qunari. He is pursued by slave catchers, while also grappling with the powerful demon living inside him, with plans of its own.

How about a hedge mage that gets caught and brought to Kinloch Hold just in time for the big blood mage rebellion. They survive to escape in the chaos, like Anders presumably did. The story follows them through the Blight and being in hiding, maybe caught and brought to another Circle. The story could follow the brewing mage/templar war and then the events of Inquisition without requiring the PCs of any of the games to make an appearance or even be specifically named or described.

I'm inclined to think the 5th Blight would be the best for said project...it has everything you could want in an epic fantasy. I would somewhat incorporate your idea Bladefist with flashbacks that provides depth to the supporting characters. The main character would be a noble male warrior to set him up as a natural fit for the leadership role that is to follow. The thing that people need to remember here is that we're not the target audience...the target audience is the general viewer.

Right. Are we pitching for a show we want, or making the pitch most likely to succeed? Different things.

I wonder if a female protagonist might work, though. They've had a pretty good track record in genre stuff lately.

Definitely, just a bit more risk is all. It's all about selecting the right actress and how believable the writers and director can make her on screen...but then that's true for the male option as well. Whichever way they would go I would hope they'd pick someone physical capable of doing much of their own swordplay...it ends up being much more dynamic.

This does sound cool, but I think it would work the best if the series went with the original plan that made Hawke the inquisitor. Also DA2 covered 10 years of material and DAI much less than that. I'm not sure devoting equal amount of time to each is a choice made of win. Its been ages since I last played DA2, but I'm pretty sure there were time jump points that would make natural season dividers.

I think the Second Sin is the perfect idea for a proper anime film (or miniseries). It could follow one of the slaves or a family that was sacrificed (or maybe one of the less evil Magisters Sidereal, assuming there was one). I imagine visuals akin to the Eclipse from Berserk or the Third Impact from The End of Evangelion, something cosmic and beautiful and terrifying. It would have an absolutely downer ending, of course, but maybe we could glean something from it (about what really happened, I mean).

Question.

The Witcher TV series is based off the books or the games?


Now on to my answer, for a Dragon Age show, I would argue, should avoid the games plot entirely unless tangentially mentioning it. 

So for example, side stories set during the Kirkwall troubles in Dragon Age 2. Or Being members of the Inquisition. Or follow the comics lead and be completely separate in continuity with sometimes a reference from main series characters. Setting it during Maric's rebellion or the 1st blight is too out of place. Works as a game, but not a TV show id argue.

Cool ideas sure but not necessarily a good idea to me personally. There are thousands of stories they can tell in the Dragon Age specifically, a re-hash of the games plot I feel would be redundant. 

It’s complicated.

The first two Witcher novels are actually collections of short stories spanning decades with varying levels of interconnectedness that set the stage for the rest of the saga. So the first season was basically an effort to cobble those into a cohesive narrative. Some parts, like Yennefer’s entire backstory before meeting Geralt and Ciri’s flight from Cintra, are only referenced in the stories rather than directly portrayed.