When asked about how closely the show will follow the series, he recognized the importance the books held as well as the limitations of television as a medium. “My danger will be never running out of books - the challenge that we face is how do we tell this story the most cohesively and coherently in what is a reasonable number of episodes.” There’s a lot that happens Jordan’s books, and it will be interesting to see how the series will pare down the story without losing what makes it so beloved to its very passionate fanbase. What she gets is far more than she anticipated with multiple evils and multiple heroes fighting layered battles between men and monsters. In the book, Moiraine is hoping to avoid the end of the world by finding the prophesied Dragon Reborn among a group of small-town young people. ![]() While the first book in the series, The Eye of the World, is largely told through the perspective of Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski), Judkins calls Rosamund Pike’s character Moiraine - a powerful magic-user and what the text refers to as an Aes Sedai - the lead of the series. “It was this book series that connected us with others - especially after I came out of the closet - it was this thing that let us see what it’s like to be a person who’s different in the world.” This is likely comforting to longtime fans of the books who want to see a creator who really understands the source material they’re bringing to screen. Judkins began by talking about his own history with the project, noting that he read the series when he was younger and that he connected with the material on a deep level. According to panelists, 90 million copies of the books have been sold. The Wheel of Time is a much, much adored American fantasy series that launched in 1990, that includes 14 books (and a prequel!). During San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, showrunner and executive producer Rafe Judkins kicked off the Amazon Prime Video panel by talking about what viewers can expect from the first season. ![]() The airtime on FXX was purchased like an infomercial.With a second season already announced, Amazon is leaning heavily into Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time universe as the answer to HBO’s wildly successful Game of Thrones. Update: As Steve Stockdale pointed out in our comments section, io9 reached out to Red Eagle Entertainment and confirmed the airing was purely to keep the rights. Of course, no one seems to know what the hell is happening. ![]() ![]() I’ve embedded it below:įrom all reports, Harriet McDougal Rigney (The late Robert Jordan’s widow and editor) had no idea this was happening. It will likely get pulled down, but someone’s posted it to Youtube all the same. There was no fanfare, no news… just Lews Therin going crazy in the middle of the night.Īnd there’s a lot of debate as to what this was? Was it Universal just trying to throw something out there to hold onto the rights? Was it a pilot put on air to get a select group to fill out surveys? AM I GOING MAD LIKE THE DRAGON DID?! The cast includes Max Ryan and Billy Zane. About a half hour long and titled “Winter Dragon,” it was a fairly faithful adaptation of the opening of the prologue from the first book of the series. So for reasons unknown, FXX aired a Wheel of Time short film in the middle of the night.
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