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LordOfChaos · Feb 9, 2015

I'm keeping expectations in check, because I think this will just be a bullshit entry to keep the legal rights. But I still hope... How much I long for a GoT quality WoT adaptation.

http://www.dragonmount.com/index.php/News/events/wheel-of-time-tv-show-pilot-r849

EDIT:

Here it is...Just know what you're getting into, as I guessed it seems like the lowest possible budget effort to keep the rights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvNYIEN1vIg&feature=youtu.be

jstripes · Feb 9, 2015

That's still a thing?

I think I read 5 books of it, 15 years ago, before my ADHD tore me away from it.

Cyan · Feb 9, 2015

Sounds like some bullshit. Let's make a low budget shitty version of this thing we hold the rights to, so we can keep our claws in it a little bit longer.

ActuallyHulk · Feb 9, 2015

I keep telling myself that one day I will finally finish the 6th book.

DiscoJer · Feb 9, 2015

It can't be any worse than the Conan TV show.

I swear, they literally used plastic kid's swords (and helmets)

chronos86 · Feb 9, 2015

This is strange . it just popped up out of nowhere

JeTmAn81 · Feb 9, 2015

Wat. How did I not know about this? Seems dodgy.

Ducarmel · Feb 9, 2015

wow really?

Chris R · Feb 9, 2015

JeTmAn81 said:
Wat. How did I not know about this? Seems dodgy.

It airs at 1:30 AM and runs for 30 minutes... Not exactly "prime time"

studyguy · Feb 9, 2015

What wait what?

When the fuck did this even get announced

ElectricBlanketFire · Feb 9, 2015

My wife loves Wheel of Time and she had no idea about any of this.

FoneBone · Feb 9, 2015

A TV ashcan copy, assuredly produced on a shoestring budget, with no advance publicity? This is going to be hilarious.

DragonSworne · Feb 9, 2015

I don't have cable anymore. I'm going to ask my brother to record this so we can have a laugh this weekend.

Krowley · Feb 9, 2015

I just saw the news about this. Looks like some rush-job thing as a scheme to keep the rights.

Might be interesting even if it is terrible.

I'm actually super excited, lol.

FoneBone · Feb 9, 2015

Here is some purported info, and a photo:

Behind the scenes still of the TV pilot: WINTER DRAGON. Directed by an epic Director Writer Producer; Seda. Producers: Radar Pictures. Ted Fields Jonah Loop Rick Selvage Rick Morse Max Ryan Billy Zane Mary Alva Mondragon Stacey Mondragon Thomas E. van Dell Lauren Selig Lisette Bross a Larry Mondragon Mike Webber Darren Lemke. Based on the " WHEEL OF TIME " Books By: Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson. #Wot #maxryanofficial SCREENING TIMES: 10.30pm tonight on Fox FXX AND also on various carriers until Monday. #Foxfxx #Fox

Krowley · Feb 9, 2015

FoneBone said:
Here is some purported info, and a photo:

Your link is giving me a 404

Regiruler · Feb 9, 2015

I don't know if my uni even gets the channel.

Regardless the fact that they're (probably) making this just for the rights is a disgrace to the series.

FoneBone · Feb 9, 2015

Krowley said:
Your link is giving me a 404

Works fine for me, came straight from Twitter too: https://twitter.com/MaxRyanOfficial/status/564191221472821248

Maybe you have to be logged in to Instagram?

FoneBone · Feb 9, 2015

Oh MAN

Craziest production and shortest post period ever...but we did it. Delivered picture this afternoon. And now...finally...sleep #winterdragon

(From Feb 4th.)

Krowley · Feb 9, 2015

FoneBone said:
Works fine for me, came straight from Twitter too: https://twitter.com/MaxRyanOfficial/status/564191221472821248

Maybe you have to be logged in to Instagram?

This one worked, thanks.

Spectromixer · Feb 9, 2015

Well that came out of nowhere.

studyguy · Feb 9, 2015

FoneBone said:
Oh MAN

(From Feb 4th.)

This sounds amazing.
I can't wait to see the trainwreck

Whiskeymatt · Feb 9, 2015

Guys what if it isn't terrible.

It's going to be so terrible.

B.K. · Feb 9, 2015

The guide on my TV doesn't list it on FX or FXX.

FoneBone · Feb 9, 2015

B.K. said:
The guide on my TV doesn't list it on FX or FXX.

It may have been a late addition to the schedule. It's on FX's site: http://www.fxnetworks.com/schedule/2015-02-09/Eastern?

Wibblewozzer · Feb 9, 2015

Ah yes, the story of Lewis Therin.

Dennis · Feb 9, 2015

This is the first I have heard of this.

Mandius · Feb 9, 2015

Sobriquet · Feb 9, 2015

FoneBone said:
Oh MAN

(From Feb 4th.)

Going by another one of his tweets, this was shot in one day. lol

Arkos · Feb 9, 2015

My tv says like past midnight EST on FXX. Only slightly aware of WoT but this sounds too good to miss

Krowley · Feb 9, 2015

Hey, hopefully this Seda guy really means business.

Maybe he's like a virtuoso of writing and directing, and against all odds he manages to make an incredibly faithful and sensitive adaption, and the network gets amazing ratings for an after midnight airing, and decide to produce a real show.

LordOfChaos · Feb 9, 2015

studyguy said:
What wait what?

When the fuck did this even get announced

I think that may be the point, no hype, minimal viewing timeslot...It sounds like a legal play to keep the rights. THey just needed to make a pilot with anything related to WoT in it.

Mandius · Feb 9, 2015

It looks like they just shot the prologue to EoTW

Lactose_Intolerant · Feb 9, 2015

Mandius said:
Seda
| visionary | artist | actor | writer | filmmaker | spiritual gangster |

AWESOME

I'll watch just to see this trainwreck

Regiruler · Feb 9, 2015

Damn it I don't get the channel here at Uni.

Or at least I can't find it.
EDIT: Nope, not here. RA had a list of channels and couldn't find Fxx.

From what I can gather on the summary, this is either literally starting with the EotW prologue or is based on the Second Age entirely. The latter would be exciting if this wasn't guaranteed to be awful.

LordOfChaos · Feb 9, 2015

Wibblewozzer said:
Ah yes, the story of Lewis Therin.

Sounds like the first books prologue. But then, was he just coming home at that time? Because if so how would he have

flattened his loved ones and everyone he knew, if he was just now returning?

gdt · Feb 9, 2015

This is fascinating.

Maybe this at least indicates that FX is looking for their own fantasy show?

Regiruler · Feb 9, 2015

Does this have any chance of airing on Fx proper? As I mentioned earlier the cable package my school gets doesn't have Fxx.

Rinoa · Feb 9, 2015

Wait what?

also damn dragonmount is still around?

Wonder if we'll ever get a high budget TEOTW adaptation like GOT...

ryseing · Feb 9, 2015

gdt said:
This is fascinating.

Maybe this at least indicates that FX is looking for their own fantasy show?

Fox has the Kingkiller Chronicles rights.

I don't expect that to be on network Fox, so FX would make a lot of sense.

Dreamwriter · Feb 9, 2015

30 minutes long...no advertising whatsoever...late at night on a Sunday...super super fast schedule, finishing 4 days before broadcast...

Yeah.

Lirlond · Feb 9, 2015

Man I really wish I could see this, ashcan or not. You can't really fuck up two guys talking in a corridor can you? The Lews Therin/Ishamael scene makes perfect sense for a shitty rights grab.

Laekon · Feb 9, 2015

Seem like the CGI budget would have to be to big to get a show that does the books justice. GoT really has very little magic or non humans so besides the dragons its just sets and extras. WoT has a lot of non-human characters and a lot of magic so I don't see how anyone would/could pay for a live action show.

Hell I thought the first season of GoT was horrible because the few battles had like 50 people in them. I can't imagine how bad the first fight with trollocs would be.

badblue · Feb 9, 2015

After the train wreck that was the Sword of Truth show, I'll pass on this one.

LProtag · Feb 9, 2015

I don't know much about the books, but I don't see how anyone can be optimistic about this at all.

I'm really interested in this as a sort of weird curiosity though. Widely popular book series has a pilot shot in one day weeks before it's aired at an informercial timeslot. Pretty crazy.

Rinoa · Feb 9, 2015

Laekon said:
Seem like the CGI budget would have to be to big to get a show that does the books justice. GoT really has very little magic or non humans so besides the dragons its just sets and extras. WoT has a lot of non-human characters and a lot of magic so I don't see how anyone would/could pay for a live action show.

Hell I thought the first season of GoT was horrible because the few battles had like 50 people in them. I can't imagine how bad the first fight with trollocs would be.

Damn, membering when that first fight was serious business... and soon after trollocs were just fodder.

The budget would have to be on LOTR scale, hella high fantasy.

Krowley · Feb 9, 2015

Just noticed from this that Billy Zane is actually in it. He's at least a real actor, and occasionally a very good one.

If this is the sort of rights grabbing scheme it seems to be, I wonder how he got roped into it? Or maybe his career is in the shitter at this point. I haven't really kept up.

Zippedpinhead · Feb 9, 2015

I'm recording it, unless there's something about this I don't understand I bet this will be the only time this comes on TV EVER...

Well hopefully if it is bad, it's hilariously bad

Krowley · Feb 9, 2015

Zippedpinhead said:
I'm recording it, unless there's something about this I don't understand I bet this will be the only time this comes on TV EVER...

Well hopefully if it is bad, it's hilariously bad

My feelings in a nutshell.

If it sucks, I hope it's bad enough to make Legend of the Seeker seem like great television.

Rinoa · Feb 9, 2015

I want to see this mess, but don't have that channel /my region!

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