The X-Files went nine seasons. But it was cheap to make.
Werthead Send a noteboard - 20/04/2011 01:51:23 AM
Well, relatively cheap. They filmed the first five or six seasons in Vancouver on a dime and only had (for the most part) two regular castmembers.
STARGATE SG-1 went ten seasons, which is impressive, as that certainly wasn't cheap. However, they did also mostly have stand-alones or reasonably easy-to-join-midstream arc stories. Nothing like the dense mythology of a WoT show. And whilst SG-1 had a good budget, again nothing like the budget a WoT show would need.
And of course there is a big problem in that WoT is only supposed to cover 2 years. You can spin that out a fair bit, but you're going to run into problems with actors aging faster than they should (though given that none of the characters are little kids, this shouldn't be as much of an issue as it was for LOST, or could be for GAME OF THRONES).
STARGATE SG-1 went ten seasons, which is impressive, as that certainly wasn't cheap. However, they did also mostly have stand-alones or reasonably easy-to-join-midstream arc stories. Nothing like the dense mythology of a WoT show. And whilst SG-1 had a good budget, again nothing like the budget a WoT show would need.
And of course there is a big problem in that WoT is only supposed to cover 2 years. You can spin that out a fair bit, but you're going to run into problems with actors aging faster than they should (though given that none of the characters are little kids, this shouldn't be as much of an issue as it was for LOST, or could be for GAME OF THRONES).
This message last edited by Werthead on 20/04/2011 at 01:53:03 AM
Wheel of Time Miniseries
- 18/04/2011 09:07:54 AM
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Not a mini-series.
- 18/04/2011 11:43:32 PM
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I would do it like this..
- 19/04/2011 05:15:31 AM
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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
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All the good ones.
- 19/04/2011 10:31:36 AM
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The Sopranos and Lost were hugely successful, and they were both six seasons long.
- 19/04/2011 06:13:06 PM
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The X-Files went nine seasons. But it was cheap to make.
- 20/04/2011 01:51:23 AM
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Re: The Sopranos and Lost were hugely successful, and they were both six seasons long.
- 20/04/2011 05:49:21 PM
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This could still work with a 13 episode season
- 19/04/2011 07:04:06 AM
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Based on GoT, I'm not too sure about that.
- 19/04/2011 01:43:36 PM
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Re: Based on GoT, I'm not too sure about that.
- 19/04/2011 05:02:34 PM
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that's the best explanation of why it wouldn't work that I have ever seen
- 22/04/2011 04:06:03 PM
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Hmm, I think American Gods might translate well onto screen. I hadn't heard of that yet
- 21/04/2011 06:31:21 PM
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Is this post still on the books board? How odd. *NM*
- 21/04/2011 10:45:09 PM
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I left it here because it brings up several different book series. *NM*
- 16/05/2011 06:06:43 PM
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