10 Video Game Franchises Netflix NEEDS To Develop
3. Red Dead Redemption
The way the Red Dead Redemption games unfold, take their time and gently stroll through stories and cut-scenes, one would think they are playing an interactive movie. For a TV series centered around the lawlessness of the Old West, we could look to shows like Godless, Deadwood and even the more tolerable moments of Westworld Season 1.
What a Red Dead Redemption series would bring to the table is a gritty Western Noir that wouldn't live by the history books that linger round other Western dramas. With a fictional landscape tangentially inspired by true events and places, the narrative of the series isn't chained down by historical accuracy like other Western dramas.
The jaw-dropping landscape of the old frontier would be enough to draw in viewers, but what would hook unfamiliar audiences in would be the impossibly beautiful and tragic stories and arcs of its characters.
Rockstar Games have earned the right to pride themselves on unique and interesting characters, and there's so many in the Red Dead series that we only ever get a glimpse of. But maybe that's the point?
Either way, give us all eight or ten episodes at once and we'll finish them all in one sitting.