Because, apparently, he has nothing better to do at work...the cheese' alter-ego sent the following letter off this morning...links are included to help the reader:
"Dear Red Eagle Entertainment LLC,
Please, please, please, for the love of god, PLEASE do not attempt to turn the Wheel of Time series, or any of the books contained therein, into a motion picture.
No doubt you are working, at this very moment, on doing just that. Spurred on by the success of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Harry Potter series, and the first installment in the Chronicles of Narnia, you undoubtedly see the Wheel of Time as a veritable "cash cow" thanks to Hollywood's newfound love of all things "fantasy."
But this lone fan implores you to resist the temptation from that whore known as the film industry. For every recent successful fantasy franchise, Hollywood has produced 10 Dungeons and Dragons. The Wheel of Time is a universe loved by countless fans across the globe and deserves something better than a watered down story starring a Wayans brother.
Hollywood's poor track record with fantasy media notwithstanding, the sheer immensity of the Wheel of Time does not lend itself to the silver screen. At last count the series contained over 1800 named characters over the course of 11 main books and one prequel. When translating a piece of work into a new media there are unavoidable changes that must be made, but to take a story containing nearly 2000 different characters and then dilute it enough to make it digestible for the mass movie going audience would be nothing short of criminal.
If you are so unwavering in your desire to a see a live action version of Robert Jordan's masterpiece, then please consider the small screen. Likely television is not nearly as lucrative an endeavor as a feature length film, but a multi-year series would allow the story to be told in as faithful (to the original work) a way as possible.
Of course, I freely admit to knowing little to nothing about how one might produce a film or television series. Essentially, I'm talking out of "my ass," but my message comes with the utmost sincerity. Please take care of this universe that so many of us know and love.
james"
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3 comments:
I'm in total agreement with the Cheese on this. The Wheel of Time series is just too big for the Big screen. I don't see hollywood producing 13 four hour movies. Just the nightmarish grinding up, and throwing out the extra bits would leave the audience dumbfounded as to what happened when suddenly a army shows out of no where to do something really important.
I haven't even read the books and I think this is a bad idea.
You know who could do justice to this franchise in the medium of TV? Sci-fi channel could. If they could bring us quality shows such as Stargate SG-1 and Eureka, I think they could do a good job of bringing Wheel of Time to the land of cable television
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