Ah man, as an animation student I would be SO down for an animated Dresden Files. I agree with the studios you listed as well. As long as Netflix (and Fox) doesn't host it, as they have a current trend of cancelling after 1 season for most of their shows. 2D animation has also seen a downward trend lately by being backed up budget-wise. Picking the right service and production team would be careful juggle. Disney obviously has the best budget, but they prefer to aim towards animation for children only. None of their animation is above PG-13, and DF needs to be adult oriented or it'll lose much of its impact.

I can see hour long episodes with 2-3 episodes per book if condensed correctly. I've personally imagined many book scenes can be shown in one minute that takes many pages to describe. I've storyboarded short scenes from the books years ago, though I've lost those scribbles since.

A nice sentiment, but we are referring to the specific spiritual attack that Ferrovax, Mother Winter, Drakul, Vadderung, and the Lords of the Outer Night and the Red King use. I haven't seen any mortal being use such an ability or anything close to it. But Drakul makes me think Harry might just be able to.

The human ghost Sir Stuart of the Colonial Marines in Ghost Story used pure Will to shove Harry back when the Lemurs/shades began attacking Mortimer's home the first time.  So there is at least one human element that can and has used Will power.

Chapter 5
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"I can see you were a fighter, boy," Stuart said, his voice harsh. "But now you're a child. You've neither the knowledge nor the tools you need to survive." He turned and gave me a ferocious glare, and an unseen force literally pushed my feet back across five or six inches of porch. Holy crap. Stuart might not be a wizard, but obviously I had a thing or two to learn about how a formidable will translated to power on the spooky side of the street.
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Just re-listened to my audiobook at work and came across something that might be either a blooper, or might be something significant to entity's of Power. (all emphasis mine)

Chapter 28
[king Corb's appearance] ...Between the design and the bizarre, disturbing imagery of the embroidery upon the sea-colored fabrics of each layer of robes, I was feeling a little queasy.
...His skin was pocked and warty and a sickly blue-green where it wasn't ghostly pale...

[Ethniu's first appearance] ...They looked like she'd had them bronzed a long time ago, and the bronze had been covered with verdigris and then polished irregularly....Flickers of metallic and colored crystals were embedded in that bronze exoflesh.

Chapter 29
...It was her eyes that bothered me. Or rather, her eye. One of her eyes was a crystalline emerald green.
...She paused for a moment, and that emerald eye landed on me like a truckload of lead, regarded me, and dismissed me all within half of a heartbeat.
...Her closed eye quivered, and suddenly there was a light behind the scarred eyelid, red and pulsating through the thin skin.

Okay, so what I'm truly pointing out here isn't just the colors, but why. Harry is supposed to be under the influence of his grey-field 'don't-see-me' potion. The only time color is mentioned on a being is when they take notice of those under the potions influence, like Ferrovax and Vadderrung at the party as he was leaving with Thomas and the ladies.

So that bears the question:
Blooper?
Or does King Corb and Ethniu have a kind of locational/reginal intellectus (sp?) that makes them aware of Harry past the potion but not in a way where they're consciously aware enough to ask if someone was hiding under a veil?
 Or were they actually aware he was there that whole time as they pulled up in the speeding van at the entrance to the castle, but just ignored him (which might lend credence to her eyeballing him under a veil inside at the party but making no mention of it)?

Thoughts?

But then, he does not say anything about Thomas and Justine, which are, in my opinion, the things that need urgent resolution. And with him not saying anything about that , I am afraid he is going to kick this until after the wedding (which seems more probable now than before).

It's too soon to say, as Jim came about the next book organically (very likely during the writing of PT/BG). As a writer with a sudden new book thrown in next with no warning, he possibly only has point A and point Z of the next book figured out, and dealing with his brother's situation and everything else still needs mapping out. Which means he literally can't tell us any more info yet.

But I too am also glad there will be a book on the aftermath. There's so much to unpack these past 17 books. 

Because Jim decided that the diamonds only amount to 2 million IIRC and that's just not that much when fitting out a whole castle (and paying property taxes).

The taxes alone on owning the amount of Square footage his boardinghouse took up in Chicago would be a large dent on its own. And he's not rolling in income either.

Short answer: yes?

Theory on what: Wizard of Chicago gets upgraded to Wizard of Earth #52. (....That was an allusion to DC's "The New 52 multiverse", playing on the fact about another mirror Dresdenverse....and likely many others.)

I'd imagine Harry will open up the Castle to be more of a community center for those who are Supernatural or Supercurious. Mouse for community outreach. Michael or Will for self-defense lessons. Basic classes (pamphlets? a web site?) on thresholds and circles and how to know when it's time to call in a wizard.

Turning his home into a business would weaken his threshold, and that's bad with the knowledge of the upcoming events. Everyone who visits would have to be considered guests by Harry, and be there overseeing the invites all the time and observing guest-right too.
He has enough on his plate.

If anything, he could support another location to do this....maybe his old office building location, if Marcone doesn't already own it.

I had a mild thought, but Rashid could have had a jaunt in his early days in the Nevernever that went sideways and got stuck for some century or more...It's often stated that this happens to mortals who aren't careful dealing outside the mortal realm.

He's still within mortal wizard age limits we know, without being older than 'Ancient' Mai. Isn't it stated in Summer Knight that Mai is around 900, or was that a WOJ?

So, Rashid is old and skilled enough in the 7th-8th century to kill Alhazred, but then some time after gets stuck several centuries in the Nevernever (maybe a long trip to the very far away Outer Gates?), and when he gets back, oops it's now 500 years later.