League has a diverse selection of stories that can't be fit into one movie, but those diverse stories could make good one episode stories in a anthology. For example, there could be one episode about a battle between Demacia and Noxus or one about the void. There are so many stories they can pull from. Project, Star guardians, character lore, etc etc.
That would be awesome! I've always been a huge proponent of video game TV shows, I think they would do way better than movies which are basically a 1.5 to 2 hour scrunching of an 8+ hour story. Obviously League is a little different, but there is almost no way a movie would work unless they wanted to do a really grounded Demacia vs Noxus or Bilgewater kind of story. The Warcraft movie was just based on the first game and even though I think it's probably the best made video game movie and is pretty good if you know the lore, it's just kind of a standard action movie that's average if you don't know the story before going into the theatre. It's definitely interesting.
I think you’re think too small. LoL is an intellectual property with the potential to make several movies and tv shows. I think lol has the potential to rival the likes of dc and marvel. In fact I think the ip is more valuable than the game itself. Having said that, this is all potential which would take billions of dollars and several years to realize.
I see much potential for IP development.
Riot may be sitting on billions of dollars of intellectual property. They owe it to themselves and to us to develop it.
To that end, let’s talk potential revenue. 70 million people play League. Let’s say that they act like 7 million people who buy everything the company makes. If a champion book costs just ten dollars, then each one is worth 70 million dollars. With 138 champions, the champion book deals alone would be worth over 9.6 billion dollars.
If we assume that the movies earn as much, we are talking about over 20 billion dollars. Throw in half of that for the books and movies of alternate universes, along with the comics and shorts. That’s 30 billion dollars of untapped intellectual property. Developing just 1% of it annually would bring in 300 million dollars.
Even if so many commercially flop that total development costs reach 90% of revenue, then Riot would be left with 30 million dollars. That’s 30 million to hire staff, expand the office, and upgrade equipment every year. Or, after corporate tax, it’s 28 million dollars to be disbursed to shareholders through dividends and buybacks.
It’s almost irresponsible to leave this money sitting on the table, especially when Riot has a history of writing good lore. They can never be sure of a hit, but creativity entails taking the risk of penning a flop. What if they find out they can just make another decent movie every year? None of them has to win the Oscars to win the hearts of the people who will actually care about it. :/
A tv series is indeed a good option , although i disagree with the format you suggest! For me the viable options are the following :1)establish a main character that will travel through runeterra ( ryza ezreal and zoe are good options). Each time they make a stop in a region we will get a mini-arc about the events there!During the arc the focus will shift to characters , native to the region ! 2)create a group of characters that will take the lead lore in each nation...the episode will shift focus between them! For example after we learn about how successful the ionia invasion was from the mouth of draven we can have an episode called aftermath where karma and irelia try to grasp the size of the destruction and establish measures in order to prevent something like that from happening again!
I think havin chronicles or mini series covering different arcs would be better. Say having 5 episodes about a war, 3 about the rise of darkin and so and such
