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Not a mini-series. Werthead Send a noteboard - 18/04/2011 11:43:32 PM
My thought has always been to do it as a six-season ongoing series, each season comprising 20 episodes:

Season 1: Books 1-2
Season 2: Books 3-4
Season 3: Books 5-6
Season 4: Books 7-9
Season 5: Books 10-12
Season 6: Books 13-14

That gives you 10 episodes each to do the first six and last two books, then you squeeze the slow books down into fewer episodes, maybe eliminate pointless secondary characters and storylines. This still causes issues - Faile is still a Shaido prisoner for about a full season - but I think it's the best compromise between getting as much on screen as possible and eliminating the longeurs. Plus it gives you Dumai's Wells and the Cleansing as cliffhangers, which works pretty well.

The only problem is that no pay-for cable network does 20-episode seasons, but doing it on a network would mean a fairly low budget. So it's probably not practical. But it's preferable to Red Eagle's current, vastly more unrealistic plans (1 movie per book).
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Wheel of Time Miniseries - 18/04/2011 09:07:54 AM 1581 Views
As what an animation? - 18/04/2011 10:37:31 AM 1106 Views
Depends on the level of detail. - 18/04/2011 11:24:33 PM 975 Views
Not a mini-series. - 18/04/2011 11:43:32 PM 1059 Views
I would do it like this.. - 19/04/2011 05:15:31 AM 1095 Views
And while we're dreaming, I'd like a pony. How many 9 season shows do you know of? *NM* - 19/04/2011 06:30:44 AM 423 Views
All the good ones. - 19/04/2011 10:31:36 AM 976 Views
This could still work with a 13 episode season - 19/04/2011 07:04:06 AM 1229 Views
Based on GoT, I'm not too sure about that. - 19/04/2011 01:43:36 PM 906 Views
Re: Based on GoT, I'm not too sure about that. - 19/04/2011 05:02:34 PM 1072 Views
One huge problem - 20/04/2011 05:42:49 PM 1105 Views
Ok, man *NM* - 20/04/2011 05:53:45 PM 597 Views
Re: One huge problem - 20/04/2011 09:18:07 PM 939 Views
Is this post still on the books board? How odd. *NM* - 21/04/2011 10:45:09 PM 472 Views
Seems so, sorry it's in the wrong place. *NM* - 22/04/2011 12:06:15 AM 495 Views
I don't think it would happen - 22/04/2011 05:13:15 PM 1098 Views
Shooting it all at once is the only way. - 16/05/2011 04:07:50 PM 1040 Views

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