Riceball
Master Member
I'm surprised that no one here has posted this news already and I apologize if it already has and I missed it. Anyway, Wheel of Time fans rejoice, it was announced recently the late author's (Robert Jordan) widow that she managed to get the rights back to make a TV series based on her husband's epic work. There's no details yet except that a major studio should be making some sort of announcement about this soon.
I'm really curious as to how they're going to do this since the book series is 14 books long, and not 14 short books but 14 books of decent length, at least equal to the books in the Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones) series. They'd have to try to do at least 2 books a season to keep it from dragging out much longer than 7 seasons, which seems to be about the limit for most scripted shows these days. Regardless, I'm definitely looking forward to this and I'm hoping that the studio that's working on this will do a good job, better than that crappy pilot that came out from Red Eagle Entertainment.
http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/04/the-wheel-of-time-turns-into-a-cutting-edge-tv-series/
I'm really curious as to how they're going to do this since the book series is 14 books long, and not 14 short books but 14 books of decent length, at least equal to the books in the Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones) series. They'd have to try to do at least 2 books a season to keep it from dragging out much longer than 7 seasons, which seems to be about the limit for most scripted shows these days. Regardless, I'm definitely looking forward to this and I'm hoping that the studio that's working on this will do a good job, better than that crappy pilot that came out from Red Eagle Entertainment.
http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/04/the-wheel-of-time-turns-into-a-cutting-edge-tv-series/