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Oh. Great. Because they did such an awesome job with Spiderman. Cannoli Send a noteboard - 20/04/2017 03:45:45 PM


Variety reports that Sony will be adapting the 14-novel series in a deal with Red Eagle Entertainment and Radar Pictures, while Rafe Judkins, who has credits on Agents of SHIELD, Chuck, and Hemlock Grove, will write and produce.

So, a studio with a horrible track record for genre adaptations, has hired a guy with a horrible CV on genre shows to run this. I'd feel better about Egwene being in charge of, well, anything.

Chuck was never successful because it was a dimwitted show with crap production values, coasting entirely on in-jokes and winking at the audience, whose funding seemed to come largely from product-placement they tried to lampshade. Agents of SHIELD's defenders keep making the excuse about it being shackled by its ties to the Marvel Cinematic Universe...but the show's creative peak was the Hydra story which came entirely from those movies. The one decent season coasted on the fallout from that event before devolving into a soap-opera. I tried to watch the new season because of an interesting movie character making an appearance, only for them to deploy one of the new "diversity" versions of the real Marvel characters, which was really silly. I haven't got around to watching Hemlock Grove, but I have yet to hear anything good about it.



It's such a part of my life and has been for 22 years now that seeing any depictions of it are beyond frightening. I wonder if animated would be better than live action. Time will tell which way they go and which network it gets to, if any.

I can't WAIT to see actors much less physically attractive or possessed of the presence and impression of the characters in the books and my head, shrilly arguing and infodumping in British accents. Whee.
Cannoli
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Sony Will Bring The Wheel of Time to TV The Shrike - 20/04/2017 03:28:21 PM 898 Views
Oh. Great. Because they did such an awesome job with Spiderman. Cannoli - 20/04/2017 03:45:45 PM 623 Views
I remain cautiously optimistic. The Shrike - 20/04/2017 04:46:46 PM 517 Views
huh aerocontrols - 20/04/2017 04:29:34 PM 532 Views
It could still be many years before we see anything The Shrike - 20/04/2017 04:47:16 PM 488 Views
I got the first two WoT books for Christmas when I was 17 aerocontrols - 20/04/2017 06:28:42 PM 573 Views
You just have to keep your expecations realisitc random thoughts - 20/04/2017 04:30:00 PM 542 Views
That's hard to do with this particular set of books/show The Shrike - 20/04/2017 04:48:07 PM 576 Views
I would probably feel that way about Thomas Covenant random thoughts - 21/04/2017 12:40:23 AM 569 Views
Hating Wheel of Time as much as I do now, I hope they cancel it after seeing the pilot *NM* Tom - 20/04/2017 05:15:10 PM 298 Views
*sniffs* *NM* The Shrike - 20/04/2017 05:26:15 PM 290 Views
Casting decisions ruin a lot of adaptations for me damookster - 20/04/2017 05:34:05 PM 556 Views
Not since Hugh Jackman has such a mismatch in actor to character height been made aerocontrols - 20/04/2017 06:22:33 PM 582 Views
Didn't see it. Was that the black Annie version? *NM* damookster - 20/04/2017 07:29:25 PM 273 Views
yes *NM* aerocontrols - 20/04/2017 07:40:53 PM 250 Views
Richard in "Legend of the Seeker" is another one Cannoli - 21/04/2017 11:39:32 PM 605 Views
It will be interesting to see who they use. The Shrike - 24/04/2017 03:00:58 PM 574 Views
Re: It will be interesting to see who they use. aerocontrols - 24/04/2017 03:31:50 PM 523 Views
This makes me nervous. *NM* nossy - 20/04/2017 10:33:46 PM 332 Views
Why? Could anyone possibly fuck it up worse than it already has been? *NM* Tom - 21/04/2017 05:20:38 PM 257 Views
I have a lot of love for 1-4ish, which we have to watch before we get to the parts I dislike. nossy - 22/04/2017 08:38:39 PM 574 Views
I stand by the assertion that 1-6 were great reads. Tom - 23/04/2017 12:32:34 AM 623 Views
They've rewritten aSoIaF and people have been generally happy. Maybe they'd be okay with this. *NM* Ghavrel - 23/04/2017 05:06:42 AM 284 Views
I started to have real issues during 5-6 nossy - 23/04/2017 10:08:08 AM 562 Views
They could do that. The Shrike - 24/04/2017 03:01:45 PM 578 Views
If Harriett is involved or has a veto we know the series is doomed to failure. Tom - 24/04/2017 03:30:35 PM 570 Views
It really could go either way.... Jeordam - 20/04/2017 10:43:51 PM 614 Views
You bring up some great points. The Shrike - 24/04/2017 03:04:01 PM 580 Views
Let me restate what you guys are both saying: Tom - 24/04/2017 03:25:56 PM 631 Views
Look at the bright, shiny, flashy goodness! Jeordam - 24/04/2017 10:24:05 PM 637 Views
Yeah, the lack of tits and ass will make it a hard sell (cross-pun intended) *NM* Tom - 25/04/2017 09:40:47 PM 355 Views
If it's good it'll be nice to watch, but can't say I'm that excited about it. Legolas - 20/04/2017 11:22:50 PM 585 Views
WoT + TV = Half-Assed Anonymous2000 - 21/04/2017 01:14:49 PM 605 Views
WoT + TV = Half-Assed *NM* Tom - 24/04/2017 03:31:41 PM 318 Views
I have to say that if the doctor-wife of Rob Stark isn't Faile, nossy - 23/04/2017 10:25:47 AM 577 Views
It will be wonderful....if they do it right. LiterateDog - 24/04/2017 08:48:45 PM 556 Views
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