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?
Red Eagle Entertainment Update
- 28/04/2010 11:23:24 PM
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If Red Eage can't even finish their WoT comics, I put their chance at doing a movie at 0% *NM*
- 29/04/2010 01:58:13 AM
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That would have been hilarious if you had spelled Eagle correctly. Haha. *NM*
- 29/04/2010 02:40:21 AM
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I thought I read somewhere that Tor is going to publish the comics. *NM*
- 29/04/2010 04:24:29 AM
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Focusing on five friends coming of age together? Is this the Breakfast Club version...? *NM*
- 29/04/2010 04:11:58 AM
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- 05/05/2010 09:31:03 PM
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