After the success of Warcraft, China’s next game-movie blockbuster is obvious

China loves the Warcraft movie. Like, a lot. In no small part because Warcraft III and World of Warcraft were hugely popular games in the Middle Kingdom, the film is burning up China’s box offices and becoming a full-fledged cultural phenomenon.

Whenever a movie does this well, you can be sure there are folks out there looking to repeat its success by finding another application of its magic formula. And this time, there’s a pretty obvious one: League of Legends.

If Warcraft III and World of Warcraft were the games that dominated the first decade of China’s new millennium, League of Legends is the game that has taken their place in the years since. It is the world’s most popular PC game, and it has been sitting on top of the charts in China for years, showing no signs of being moved. Like Warcraft, League is already a cultural phenomenon in China. There are League-themed restaurants. Earlier this year, a Granny went viral when she mistakenly prayed to a giant statue of a League of Legends character. Heck, even Papi Jiang’s Warcraft shirts contain a League of Legends reference. It might be the only game that’s as deeply saturated in China’s youth culture as the Warcraft games are.

But there’s an even bigger in when it comes to China making a League movie: unlike Warcraft, China owns League of Legends. Tencent, which wisely invested in the Warcraft movie, actually owns Riot Games, the American developer that created League of Legends. It also owns its own film production company. Now that Warcraft‘s success has proved China’s willing to buy into video-game movies in a way the West traditionally hasn’t been, there’s really nothing to stop Tencent from producing a League of Legends film if it wants to.

Admittedly, adapting the game into a feature film story might be difficult. League of Legends is a team-based competitive multiplayer game, which means that it’s heavy on characters and light on story. Players have different favorite “champions” and the game has over 130 of them and counting. Working all of them into a coherent narrative in a meaningful way would be near-impossible, but ignoring some of them would risk alienating players who wanted to see their favorite champ on the big screen.

Then again, the characters are grouped into loose groups by their backgrounds and places or origin in the game’s lore. Perhaps Tencent could begin a Marvel-style franchise series, with different films focusing on different groups of characters.

It’s also worth mentioning that Riot has produced a few short-form cinematics that have done quite well on the small screen. For example, the latest cinematic – a 2014 piece called A New Dawn – has been viewed well over 100 million times on Tencent’s video platform alone. The last game in China to make such a huge splash with short-form CGI cinematics? You guessed it: World of Warcraft.

To be clear, there’s no evidence that Tencent is working on a League of Legends movie right now. But there’s also very little that would stand in the company’s way – it already owns the rights it would need, after all. And there’s plenty of reason to believe that a League movie might be able to replicate the success of Warcraft, especially if it doesn’t come out for another few years so that it can try to cash in on the nostalgia factor among young adults who spent their formative years playing the game.

So Tencent, if you’re reading this, you’re welcome for the billion-dollar idea (if it hadn’t already occurred to you). I’ll take a modest one percent cut of the box office as my finder’s fee, OK?