OKAY OKAY I NEED to get this off my mind bc it’s been tossing about in my head for YEARS and I must share it
Inception (Nolan, 2010) NEEEEDS to be adapted in some way into a TV show. This is a movie with one of the highest show-potentials I’ve ever seen - you have a universe that is clearly VERY expansive in terms of dream sharing, an intriguing practice with what is suggested to be a long complicated history, and so very little of that is explored in-film. There is already an extensive language of terms, symbols, practices, rules, tools etc that is waiting to be used and expanded on.
You wouldn’t even necessarily need to include the original film characters, save for perhaps a cameo or two or some other minor roles. It could exist completely outside the plot of the film. But literally believe me when I say the possibilities are endless.
-You could take the route of a prequel sort of thing, which explores the early days and development of dream sharing they mentioned briefly in the film as a military training program, and then branch out into the moral complexities of it and where things went wrong, why it became illegal, etc.
-you could have just an entire mystery plot like imagine a detective show but with dreams set in the inception universe like come on that would be freaking amazing
-someone with amnesia must search their own dreams and the dreams of others to solve the mystery of who they are, following a string of clues and recurring symbols within the dreams they walk in till they begin to uncover some huge very important thing they must do or stop
-you could simply separate it completely from the film and just focus on some other person or group of people who practice dream sharing
-Or do the opposite, and go explore the other characters from the original show. I’d pay good money to see more of Eames or Mal again honestly
-Have characters solve a huge long forgotten mystery
-Or focus on a slow burn arc where the protagonist begins bright eyed and wanting to use the practice for good, but slowly descends into madness and confusion and gets tied up in all sorts of corruption, and needs to find their way out before they lose sight of reality completely
-Perhaps a terminally Ill person lives out a second lifetime in their dreams
-Maybe have a plot where the audience starts out on solid ground, being able to clearly identify the protagonist's dreams from reality, and then by the end they are as clueless as mc as to whether or not they’re watching them dream or not.
-literally the possibilities are endless
Anyway that’s my Ted talk had to get that one off my chest lol thank u for listening byee