RC Cola posted:

They can cut books 7-11 of Perrin's arc into 2-3 episodes.
Cut out the prophet entirely actually.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

They're publishing some cast shots. I wonder if we aren't getting / they cut Thom.

DarkHorse posted:

He explicitly wanted to copy it from what I remember. Like his goal was to do "Tolkien, but women are in power" and see what was different.

Turns out making Gandalf into a woman doesn't change the Fellowship much

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

I really hope they don't cut Thom, he's a major secondary character in addition to being a badass. They haven't mentioned anything about Fain either, and he's a major antagonist of the first four or five books.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Wheel of Time: nope. Men fuuuucked uuuuup, and specifically Our Boy Protagonist hosed up. And now he has a chance to do it over and get it right this time. Just a chance. But isn't a do-over a powerful fantasy?

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Yeah, I can't think of many if any that take the same angle.


One thing that's really striking me is that I hope they have enough sense to just let Eye of the World go straight from page to screen, preferably with a director who knows how to shoot horror.

It's just very, very well structured for an episodic show. The narrative arcs each take about five chapters. Shadar Logoth is your "mid season finale" for the first season. Seocnd half of the season is the different arcs, then you reunify in Caemlyn for the Ways and the Eye as your season ender.

The later seasons they'll need to go more off script but the first books are tight and I hope they stick close close close to the page.

calandryll posted:

Book 6 is the worst one to skip. It probably has the best last quarter of a book with Dumai's Well.

Affi posted:

Wow they're actually making the show?

Torrannor posted:

The Winter's Heart ebook cover is the best of the new covers, it's really amazing.

RC Cola posted:

and cleaning up some plot threads *cough* Perrin *cough*

Invalid Validation posted:

We’ll see, every ancillary project associated with the books has failed. Remember the couple games that were supposed to come out based on the books? Yea nobody does. The show has been in production hell forever too hasn’t it? I vaguely remember hearing rumors about it a long time ago.

Sab669 posted:

Are you basing that off the 1 photo that was posted on the other page and assuming that's the first episode they're filming? Or did they actually confirm what the first episode is like.

I assume it's the former, in which case stuff is virtually never filmed chronologically.

Invalid Validation posted:

Yea I don’t see it as all that bad, most of the main powerful characters are women even if Mr Dragon himself has to save every woman cause he’s a big strong man.

ChubbyChecker posted:

Are there any other parallels with Tyr than the lost hand?

quote:

'You must know victory-runes
if you want to know victory. Carve them
into your sword's hilt, on the blade guards
and the blades, invoking Tyr's name twice.'

mewse posted:

Mat Cauthon posted:

She's the one in the cadin'sor.

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

It would make sense to give Perrin's family more fleshing out, if only to make his return to the Two Rivers in Shadow Rising and the discovery that they're all dead have more dramatic weight.

RC Cola posted:

And yet that moment has me in tears every time.

Brolander posted:

If you didn't pay attention you might think he was an orphan for how much he quotes the Luhanns, as if they were surrogate parent figures.

Apparatchik Magnet posted:

I see that my name has survived in the contributors section.

Apparatchik Magnet posted:

Please tell me you're Timothy Bruening and it was all one huge troll.

JOHN SKELETON posted:

Well poo poo, I just found this thread thanks to someone linking it elsewhere and wow, they're actually filming a Wheel of Time thing? I don't think I'll believe it's actually happening until the first episodes are available for streaming.

Also even then is there any reason to think this isn't going to be mediocre crap? There's a billion TV shows produced these days since everyone wants their own streaming platform with original content, and only a small percentage of that is anywhere near quality.

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

Billy Zane for Ishamael or just cancel the whole thing.

Spek posted:

I'm not familiar with the actor your talking about but if you want someone who hangs around forever and could chew the hell out of the scenery look no further than Padan Fain.

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

and
Danny Devito
as "Herid Fel"

ChubbyChecker posted:

No big name actor will show in this.

Pander posted:

am I missing here or...?

Atlas Hugged posted:

This gives me strong Game of Throne vibes in that Rosamund Pike is basically their Sean Bean. The kids are all unknowns and there will probably be a few familiar faces scattered throughout the first season. Were there really any other big names in the first season of GoT? I feel like most of the main cast outside of the kids had one or two things they were well known for, mostly in British television and movies, but weren't exactly household names. Who was the biggest name outside of Bean? Lena Headey? Peter Dinklage? It's hard to remember how well known they were or weren't before Game of Thrones blew up. When people thought of 300, did Lena Headey really leap to mind?

I think the big difference between it and Game of Thrones is that HBO had a whole stable of actors from a dozen series at that point that they could call on so even small roles got someone who had chops. I think half the casts of Rome and The Wire ended up in GoT by the end. Amazon unfortunately doesn't have that resource to draw on at the moment. Give it a few years maybe?

Mat Cauthon posted:

Interesting casting there. Tam doesn't have a huge role, so I guess that frees him up to do other stuff and avoids having a pretty prominent GoT cast member front and center throughout the show.

Sab669 posted:

Story wise, does he do anything especially important other than convincing Rand that he doesn't need to be ice-cold? They could easily just only keep him around for Season 1 and have another character do that

Invalid Validation posted:

Tam shoulda been tagalong to Rand, how does he manage to be Perrins surrogate father instead? Kinda a weird choice but definitely not one that I would have thought of unless he’s around a lot more in later books I haven’t gotten to.