From 'House of the Dragon' to 'God of War' to 'The Witcher,' shows are getting smacked by creators for seeming to stray from source material. And there are reasons it's happening now.
I don’t think Wheel of Time would be that hard to adapt if you just made it animated (to
avoid insane photorealistic CGI budgets) and aggressively streamlined the middle books (which are a slog anyways).
It would have to be insanely long if it were to adapt the entire thing even with those cuts so then you have a problem that at season 10 you don’t get any new viewers because nobody can jump in without 9 books worth of context.
The only way to adapt it is as a Latin American telenovela. You get low budget and captivated audience of older women who’ll watch it out of habit. Rand al’Thor wouldn’t be a dorky redhead but a hot Latino lover and that’s not the only advantage here.
I don’t think Wheel of Time would be that hard to adapt if you just made it animated (to avoid insane photorealistic CGI budgets) and aggressively streamlined the middle books (which are a slog anyways).
It would have to be insanely long if it were to adapt the entire thing even with those cuts so then you have a problem that at season 10 you don’t get any new viewers because nobody can jump in without 9 books worth of context.
The only way to adapt it is as a Latin American telenovela. You get low budget and captivated audience of older women who’ll watch it out of habit. Rand al’Thor wouldn’t be a dorky redhead but a hot Latino lover and that’s not the only advantage here.