Each story (as well as a few additions) would need to be kept for obvious reasons: The continuity of the TV show.
Going off that: characters, new stories, and a few sub-plots (including a romance) would also need to be added for the duration of the show.
In the movie Big Fish, Ewan McGregor was a fantastic Edward Bloom, he captured everything Edward is portrayed as: "strong" (pg. 9) with a "special charm..." (pg. 28). I would cast him as Edward Bloom everyday of the week. As for his wife, she's not described (as of page 53) so her image could be anything I wanted it to be (someone a few years younger than Ewan but every bit as lovely). Perhaps Yvonne Strahovski who'd be perfect with some red lipstick and short, beautiful blonde curls to match the time period.
It'd have to have a theme song that played right before a commercial break (like every TV show ever). As for music, there would be a lot of happy-go-lucky stuff happening because all of the stories are so legendary that you wouldn't believe them! So something with a light feeling would be a good tone setter.
Something unique about Big Fish is that each episode builds off the last, only in the sense of Edward Bloom. The show would follow his life as it happened chronologically - then when things got boring and as Edward is about to die, he can recount all of his stories as they ACTUALLY happened instead of over exaggerating all of them.
Something unique about Big Fish is that each episode builds off the last, only in the sense of Edward Bloom. The show would follow his life as it happened chronologically - then when things got boring and as Edward is about to die, he can recount all of his stories as they ACTUALLY happened instead of over exaggerating all of them.
