10 Movies That Must Return As A TV Series

9. The Big Lewbowski

Where some films have been a success because they told a great story, there are others out there that just introduced you to great characters. And, still sitting atop lists of cinema's coolest ever protagonists some 17 years after he was introduced, is The Dude.

A hopelessly lazy, terminally single, wise-cracking, pot smoking, unemployed bowling enthusiast who takes life as easy as possible no matter how surreal things start getting, he was born to star in a sitcom. Jeff Bridges portrayal was something to behold, but the power of The Dude alone would be enough to see a Big Lebowski TV series draw in audiences without a necessarily stellar cast. The film's most enjoyable moments were the ones that deviated from the central plot, and entire episodes based around the bowling alley and Walter's obsession with Vietnam would comfortably carry this to a Primetime Emmy. The only decision would be whether or not to set it before the film or after.

Set it before and you get creative license to revive Donny and explore some wonderfully rich origin stories, but you'd need to create a whole new supporting cast to drive things along. Set it after and you'd get to play with almost all of the original characters, but you'd have to create the entire story from scratch to bring them all back together. Both ideas ideally require the input of the film's original writers and directors Joel and Ethan Coen, and given their involvement as executive producers in Fargo they might even be up for it.