This is so depressing! Theoretically, this would be a huge, awesome thing
beetnemesis Send a noteboard - 18/11/2009 06:05:07 AM
But yeah... no way.
There's just... too... MUCH!
Eye of the World could be done as a movie... maybe. MAYBE. Things would have to be pared down a bit, and some subtleties (thoughts, feelings) and abstract concepts (Rand reaching for the void, feeling the "glow"
would have to be made more obvious, but it could be done. Even then, though, it'd be the kind of movie where only a reader will get the best experience (like with Watchmen).
The later stuff, though... yikes. 50 billion plotlines, many of which don't pay off till 5 books later. Oodles of named characters, many of which have some vital, but small, part of the plot.
The problem is that it would be best done as a TV series, but a TV series you were watching on DVD. It'd be the kind of series where if you missed more than two episodes, you'd be pretty lost. And the episodes would have to be pretty fast paced- none of this filler junk you see in Sword of Truth.
There's just... too... MUCH!
Eye of the World could be done as a movie... maybe. MAYBE. Things would have to be pared down a bit, and some subtleties (thoughts, feelings) and abstract concepts (Rand reaching for the void, feeling the "glow"
would have to be made more obvious, but it could be done. Even then, though, it'd be the kind of movie where only a reader will get the best experience (like with Watchmen).The later stuff, though... yikes. 50 billion plotlines, many of which don't pay off till 5 books later. Oodles of named characters, many of which have some vital, but small, part of the plot.
The problem is that it would be best done as a TV series, but a TV series you were watching on DVD. It'd be the kind of series where if you missed more than two episodes, you'd be pretty lost. And the episodes would have to be pretty fast paced- none of this filler junk you see in Sword of Truth.
I amuse myself.
Sanderson talking to the WoT movie people
- 18/11/2009 03:31:53 AM
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I cringe a little when I think about it
- 18/11/2009 04:41:49 AM
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Ha, if they wanted to do it right, they'd make at least three movies out of just the first book. *NM*
- 18/11/2009 04:55:28 AM
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Re: I cringe a little when I think about it
- 18/11/2009 05:32:06 AM
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Its too large
- 18/11/2009 05:36:26 AM
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This is so depressing! Theoretically, this would be a huge, awesome thing
- 18/11/2009 06:05:07 AM
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This is why I think it will be only one movie (or perhaps three)
- 18/11/2009 06:18:39 AM
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I agree. Make the first 3 books into movies and end it. They can stand as a trilogy. *NM*
- 18/11/2009 04:04:28 PM
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In addition to what's been said, I hope the prospect of movies won't delay the last two books. *NM*
- 18/11/2009 11:50:22 AM
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I would rather they made Raymond E. Feist's "Magician"
- 18/11/2009 12:58:54 PM
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yep that whole series rocks
- 20/11/2009 06:00:36 PM
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Actually, I thought
- 21/11/2009 02:31:36 PM
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hehe yep
- 22/11/2009 03:32:51 PM
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I quit somewhere in the krondor books. I might have finished Assasins
- 22/11/2009 04:40:34 PM
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the conrad stargard series would make a good movie series too 
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- 20/11/2009 06:01:10 PM
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- 20/11/2009 06:01:10 PM
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WoT movies would run into age problems for the actors if many movies were made...
- 18/11/2009 02:54:42 PM
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How do I contact Universal to try to get myself in that movie? *NM*
- 18/11/2009 02:56:18 PM
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It wouldn't bother me if it were edited to hell to fit in the time alotted, so long as it was good. *NM*
- 18/11/2009 03:31:28 PM
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I have always thought that WoT should be animated,... *NM*
- 19/11/2009 11:10:32 PM
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That actually might work. There's existing cartoon portrayals of the main characters. *NM*
- 21/11/2009 06:50:10 PM
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If they can make 8 Potter movies...
- 21/11/2009 01:24:43 PM
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Re: If they can make 8 Potter movies...
- 21/11/2009 01:52:58 PM
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That's certainly right...
- 21/11/2009 02:17:30 PM
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they should wait
- 21/11/2009 02:34:38 PM
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SoIaF is being made into a movie?
- 21/11/2009 03:46:08 PM
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AFAIK, it's only an adapted HBO series (Game of Thrones) in production still *NM*
- 21/11/2009 10:23:14 PM
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Ah! OK, Thanks
- 21/11/2009 11:20:59 PM
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