While most of us appreciate WoT for the intricacies you described (foreshadowing, PoV style, narrative style)--the story of WoT is a really good one that would stand alone by itself.
Seriously--we have the AoL, the One Power, Rand & Co. traveling on missions that are outwardly simplistic (seeking the Eye, fighting Mydraal, preventing the DO from breaking free, finding the Seals, Rand becoming the Dragon, getting Callandor, the Seanchan, the White Tower, the Borderlands, The Aiel, Ruidean, etc.)...all of the subplots still stand as an AWESOME story even without the fun details that we enjoy.
I think most of the WoT readers aren't as hardcore. They love the Sanderson books because it returns to a Fires of Heaven pacing (although I totally agree with you that Sanderson seriously mangled the order of events) and don't really care about the narrative issues, lack of subtlety, out-of-character actions/thoughts, and a general lack of "mystery" plot devices that RJ was a master of. Even without these, I think the story itself lends well to a wide audience. I bet I could spend a few hours and write out a very bare-bones sketch of WoT and still have it be really interesting. You could even remove major characters like Fain, reduce the # of Forsaken to 3 (cut out Be'lal, Rahvin, Moghedien, etc.) and it wouldn't kill the story too much--those are all side plots that, for film, aren't even super necessary. I'd leave in Lanfear because she's hot (more viewership, and btw Elena Satine would be a great Lanfear).
We'd lose a lot of the WoT world, but the major themes and plot lines are what compose the story--the other stuff is fun for us, but I'd bet most of the readers barely notice it.
Seriously--we have the AoL, the One Power, Rand & Co. traveling on missions that are outwardly simplistic (seeking the Eye, fighting Mydraal, preventing the DO from breaking free, finding the Seals, Rand becoming the Dragon, getting Callandor, the Seanchan, the White Tower, the Borderlands, The Aiel, Ruidean, etc.)...all of the subplots still stand as an AWESOME story even without the fun details that we enjoy.
I think most of the WoT readers aren't as hardcore. They love the Sanderson books because it returns to a Fires of Heaven pacing (although I totally agree with you that Sanderson seriously mangled the order of events) and don't really care about the narrative issues, lack of subtlety, out-of-character actions/thoughts, and a general lack of "mystery" plot devices that RJ was a master of. Even without these, I think the story itself lends well to a wide audience. I bet I could spend a few hours and write out a very bare-bones sketch of WoT and still have it be really interesting. You could even remove major characters like Fain, reduce the # of Forsaken to 3 (cut out Be'lal, Rahvin, Moghedien, etc.) and it wouldn't kill the story too much--those are all side plots that, for film, aren't even super necessary. I'd leave in Lanfear because she's hot (more viewership, and btw Elena Satine would be a great Lanfear).
We'd lose a lot of the WoT world, but the major themes and plot lines are what compose the story--the other stuff is fun for us, but I'd bet most of the readers barely notice it.
So any news about the EoTW film?
- 20/02/2011 07:59:36 PM
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the film rights change hands every few years, it's unlikely anything will ever happen *NM*
- 20/02/2011 08:42:57 PM
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that's probably a good thing.
- 21/02/2011 01:58:36 AM
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Length
- 21/02/2011 04:57:49 AM
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WoT could lose half its content and not overly suffer.
- 21/02/2011 07:56:28 AM
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Re: WoT could lose half its content and not overly suffer.
- 21/02/2011 02:24:07 PM
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Kind of disagree
- 21/02/2011 03:12:50 PM
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Re: Kind of disagree
- 21/02/2011 05:17:42 PM
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Re: WoT could lose half its content and not overly suffer.
- 22/02/2011 11:41:58 PM
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The belief that a WoT film will be produced is fantasy of a grander scale than WoT itself. *NM*
- 23/02/2011 11:05:33 PM
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