If you truly do "establish strong, identifiable characters" by the time you get around to making movie #2 or #3 the "strong" and "identifiable" actors who played your main characters will have grown up and no longer physically look like youths/young adults anymore.
I call it the Harry Potter effect. Assuming you decide to shoot movies 2, 3, and beyond, if you shoot the movies in quick succession you can get 3, maybe 4 movies shot over a 5 year span (that would be optimistic). But after 5 years your 18 year old actors won't look 18 anymore.
If you succeed with the first film and decide to go for more, by the time you are shooting Lord of Chaos or A Crown of Swords your characters (e.g. Egwene, Mat, Perrin, Rand, et al.) won't look anything like they should.
Will you decide to go with different actors?
I call it the Harry Potter effect. Assuming you decide to shoot movies 2, 3, and beyond, if you shoot the movies in quick succession you can get 3, maybe 4 movies shot over a 5 year span (that would be optimistic). But after 5 years your 18 year old actors won't look 18 anymore.
If you succeed with the first film and decide to go for more, by the time you are shooting Lord of Chaos or A Crown of Swords your characters (e.g. Egwene, Mat, Perrin, Rand, et al.) won't look anything like they should.
Will you decide to go with different actors?
When tEotW begins, Rand, Mat, Perrin, Egwene, etc are in their early twenties. Adults don't age the same way kids and teens do. I, at 23, look the same as I did at seventeen. If they started with seventeen or eighteen year old actors to push the minimum starting age, they'd still be in their mid to late twenties at the end of the movies. Who cares if they don't look exactly the same at the end? They aren't supposed to. They are supposed to learn and grow throughout the series.
This message last edited by FanEditor10 on 16/05/2010 at 05:27:19 AM
Red Eagle Entertainment Update
- 28/04/2010 11:23:24 PM
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If Red Eage can't even finish their WoT comics, I put their chance at doing a movie at 0% *NM*
- 29/04/2010 01:58:13 AM
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That would have been hilarious if you had spelled Eagle correctly. Haha. *NM*
- 29/04/2010 02:40:21 AM
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I thought I read somewhere that Tor is going to publish the comics. *NM*
- 29/04/2010 04:24:29 AM
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Focusing on five friends coming of age together? Is this the Breakfast Club version...? *NM*
- 29/04/2010 04:11:58 AM
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One suggestion
- 05/05/2010 09:31:03 PM
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They are SUPPOSED to grow up!
- 16/05/2010 05:26:51 AM
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