Re: One suggestion - Edit 1
Before modification by FanEditor10 at 16/05/2010 05:27:19 AM
In my way of thinking, our great task is to establish strong, identifiable characters who each face choices that will alter the rest of their lives, and in so doing, the fate of the world.
I hope you succeed. I would like to see the Wheel of Time adapted to the movie screen.
That said, you have at least one problem (assuming you succeed). 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?
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.