Mika's author, confirmed that as things stand right now, they're doing it as a
film, not as a show.
Upon reflecting on it, I can understand the rationale. They certainly can do the world-building, develop additional material, & run it as a series (since there have been many shows that have been adapted from short stories), but doing it as a flick can keep them a bit more precise, if that's the right word. But hey, plans change, & if they go further in long-form along the way, great. But a movie works fine, too (better to do a short as a film, and a novel/group of novels as a show, IMO).
Netflix do have a couple of genre flicks in the pipe:
ARQ (by
Orphan Black's Tony Elliott, & stars
Jessica Jones's Rachael Taylor; based on an engineer, surrounded by a gang, who must protect a technology that could deliver unlimited energy.), & a Korean horror one called
Okja (A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend — a massive animal after whom the film is named after).
Given this one-off format the platform has, or even the miniseries one like they're doing with the
Gilmore Girls revival this year, if
PoI's story were to continue, be sweet if it's done in either way. The latter's more preferred: 4 episodes, at about 75 minutes each, I suppose (
GG's 90). Or about one 2 hour film, every year/alternate year (like Disney's
High School Musical; best I could think of). Can do about 3-4 those.