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In the ongoing quest to adapt literally everything into a streaming TV show, Sony Pictures and Amazon optioned the rights to epic fantasy novel series The Wheel of Time in 2018.
In the past, there were a few extremely low-budget attempts to adapt the series into a television show or film, all of which crashed and burned without producing much of note. If you are a cringe connoisseur you can search on YouTube for "Winter Dragon", the most recent attempt - the entire pilot is on there, and it's incredibly bad.
Author Brandon Sanderson, who took over and finished the series when original writer Robert Jordan died, was rumored to be deeply involved in the Sony/Netflix production, and fans were cautiously optimistic. But there were some early warning signs, of the type that shouldn't really surprise people anymore:
(Anyone who has read the series knows this statement is not just incorrect, but so far from correct it would lead to questions if the person writing it had even read the novels.)
Fast forward to today. The casting for the show has been announced, and - hoo boy - it looks exactly like everyone was afraid it would.
(Left to right: Egwene, Rand, Perrin, Nynaeve, Mat - all from the same tiny rural village. In the books, Rand's differetly-colored eyes and hair immediately marked him as an outsider, and his parentage was a subject of intense speculation among the other villagers.)
I keep finding more and more uses for this picture...
In the ongoing quest to adapt literally everything into a streaming TV show, Sony Pictures and Amazon optioned the rights to epic fantasy novel series The Wheel of Time in 2018.
In the past, there were a few extremely low-budget attempts to adapt the series into a television show or film, all of which crashed and burned without producing much of note. If you are a cringe connoisseur you can search on YouTube for "Winter Dragon", the most recent attempt - the entire pilot is on there, and it's incredibly bad.
Author Brandon Sanderson, who took over and finished the series when original writer Robert Jordan died, was rumored to be deeply involved in the Sony/Netflix production, and fans were cautiously optimistic. But there were some early warning signs, of the type that shouldn't really surprise people anymore:
(Anyone who has read the series knows this statement is not just incorrect, but so far from correct it would lead to questions if the person writing it had even read the novels.)
Fast forward to today. The casting for the show has been announced, and - hoo boy - it looks exactly like everyone was afraid it would.
(Left to right: Egwene, Rand, Perrin, Nynaeve, Mat - all from the same tiny rural village. In the books, Rand's differetly-colored eyes and hair immediately marked him as an outsider, and his parentage was a subject of intense speculation among the other villagers.)
I keep finding more and more uses for this picture...