You'd just have to cut out the fat. It would require losing some minor characters, and making sure that the dialogue was streamlined, but I think you could do it in 13 episodes.
My thought has always been to do it as a six-season ongoing series, each season comprising 20 episodes:
Season 1: Books 1-2
Season 2: Books 3-4
Season 3: Books 5-6
Season 4: Books 7-9
Season 5: Books 10-12
Season 6: Books 13-14
That gives you 10 episodes each to do the first six and last two books, then you squeeze the slow books down into fewer episodes, maybe eliminate pointless secondary characters and storylines. This still causes issues - Faile is still a Shaido prisoner for about a full season - but I think it's the best compromise between getting as much on screen as possible and eliminating the longeurs. Plus it gives you Dumai's Wells and the Cleansing as cliffhangers, which works pretty well.
The only problem is that no pay-for cable network does 20-episode seasons, but doing it on a network would mean a fairly low budget. So it's probably not practical. But it's preferable to Red Eagle's current, vastly more unrealistic plans (1 movie per book).
Season 1: Books 1-2
Season 2: Books 3-4
Season 3: Books 5-6
Season 4: Books 7-9
Season 5: Books 10-12
Season 6: Books 13-14
That gives you 10 episodes each to do the first six and last two books, then you squeeze the slow books down into fewer episodes, maybe eliminate pointless secondary characters and storylines. This still causes issues - Faile is still a Shaido prisoner for about a full season - but I think it's the best compromise between getting as much on screen as possible and eliminating the longeurs. Plus it gives you Dumai's Wells and the Cleansing as cliffhangers, which works pretty well.
The only problem is that no pay-for cable network does 20-episode seasons, but doing it on a network would mean a fairly low budget. So it's probably not practical. But it's preferable to Red Eagle's current, vastly more unrealistic plans (1 movie per book).
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Wheel of Time Miniseries
- 18/04/2011 09:07:54 AM
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Not a mini-series.
- 18/04/2011 11:43:32 PM
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I would do it like this..
- 19/04/2011 05:15:31 AM
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And while we're dreaming, I'd like a pony. How many 9 season shows do you know of? *NM*
- 19/04/2011 06:30:44 AM
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All the good ones.
- 19/04/2011 10:31:36 AM
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The Sopranos and Lost were hugely successful, and they were both six seasons long.
- 19/04/2011 06:13:06 PM
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Re: The Sopranos and Lost were hugely successful, and they were both six seasons long.
- 20/04/2011 05:49:21 PM
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This could still work with a 13 episode season
- 19/04/2011 07:04:06 AM
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Based on GoT, I'm not too sure about that.
- 19/04/2011 01:43:36 PM
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Re: Based on GoT, I'm not too sure about that.
- 19/04/2011 05:02:34 PM
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that's the best explanation of why it wouldn't work that I have ever seen
- 22/04/2011 04:06:03 PM
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Hmm, I think American Gods might translate well onto screen. I hadn't heard of that yet
- 21/04/2011 06:31:21 PM
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Is this post still on the books board? How odd. *NM*
- 21/04/2011 10:45:09 PM
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I left it here because it brings up several different book series. *NM*
- 16/05/2011 06:06:43 PM
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