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Another interesting setup might be to do it via a TV series format. With a movie, you kind of have to pick one Realm, enemy faction and story focus and that dominates most of the screen time. Meanwhile, a series lets you explore far more, essentially via a Monster of the Week format. One week, the heroes are dealing with some Fyreslayers in the Realm of Fire, the next story has them guarding a portal to the Realm of Death and fighting Undead that pour forth from it, the following one sees them called back to the city where a Stormcast warrior once lived and you get a more personal episode, so on and so forth.

Basically, the Doctor Who format but with Realms instead of space and time and Realmgates instead of a blue box. I think there's some mileage there if you wanted to cover the breadth of the setting.

 Paradigm wrote:
Another interesting setup might be to do it via a TV series format. With a movie, you kind of have to pick one Realm, enemy faction and story focus and that dominates most of the screen time. Meanwhile, a series lets you explore far more, essentially via a Monster of the Week format. One week, the heroes are dealing with some Fyreslayers in the Realm of Fire, the next story has them guarding a portal to the Realm of Death and fighting Undead that pour forth from it, the following one sees them called back to the city where a Stormcast warrior once lived and you get a more personal episode, so on and so forth.

Basically, the Doctor Who format but with Realms instead of space and time and Realmgates instead of a blue box. I think there's some mileage there if you wanted to cover the breadth of the setting.

I’d watch that. I’d watch the hell out of that. That’s something Netflick or Amazon could do.

 Paradigm wrote:
Another interesting setup might be to do it via a TV series format. With a movie, you kind of have to pick one Realm, enemy faction and story focus and that dominates most of the screen time. Meanwhile, a series lets you explore far more, essentially via a Monster of the Week format. One week, the heroes are dealing with some Fyreslayers in the Realm of Fire, the next story has them guarding a portal to the Realm of Death and fighting Undead that pour forth from it, the following one sees them called back to the city where a Stormcast warrior once lived and you get a more personal episode, so on and so forth.

Basically, the Doctor Who format but with Realms instead of space and time and Realmgates instead of a blue box. I think there's some mileage there if you wanted to cover the breadth of the setting.

To me that sounds more like SG-1 than Doctor Who: a small team of Sigmarines travels through a gate to do something in a new realm. A proven formula to be sure, SG-1 lasted 10 season and spawned Atlantis and Destiny, but one of the key advantages the Stargate franchise had was that it was cheap to produce because almost everyone was human or looked human. That isn't something an AoS series could really get away with.