5) Bas-Lag
What is it?:
“Bas-Lag” is several novels, all of them as weird as the name. “Perdido Street Station” is the first, taking place in an incredibly detailed and vibrant city consisting of horrific creatures including insectoids, mammalian humanoids, slimy reptiles and humans. It becomes a science experiment gone wrong type of story (like Re-Animator meets Slither). The follow ups are just as strange, particularly “The Scar” which instead of a city takes place in an entire ecosystem made up of a cluster of boats in the middle of the ocean.
Why Should it be Adapted?:
To be completely honest, I don’t think an adaptation of this calibre is quite possible on a television budget, however as an animation (with HBO’s Spawn as a convincing precedence), show-runners could do wonders with the world of “Bas-Lag.” Explore the themes per episode, design as many gross out images possible and hell, even the human/scarab-humanoid relationship will actually come off as convincing.
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