I would love to see a movie or miniseries based on the “Bas-Lag” novels by China Mieville, which are “Perdido Street Station”, “The Scar”, and “Iron Council”
I think the best description of these books would be “Gritty Steampunk Fantasy” with a very generous dose of Weird. The writing is very descriptive, even when you really would rather not know about what’s being described.
Some things that are mentioned in these three books:
Mosquito people. The males are quiet and studious, the females are strong, dangerous, and driven mad by hunger
Punishment factories. Criminals are sentenced to “Remaking”. The Remade are people who have had either machinery or animal parts grafted onto them. Most Remakings are cruel and useless.
Smokestone. Rock that will change unpredictably into smoke - and back into stone.
Frog people who can make water hold a shape for a short time. A longshoreman’s strike in one of the books involved a bunch of these guys forming a large gap in a river.
Sentient steam powered constructs
*Drugs that let you experience other people’s dreams.
There is a lot I have to leave out due to spoilers, but it would be an awesome series.