![]() ![]() The end result: studios like Amazon are very willing to open their wallet these days to make a show like The Wheel of Time. “He thought: ‘Okay, if Amazon Studios and Prime Video are going to be a calling card in all these countries around the world, has to be broadly appealing.’” And it’s a good thing Game of Thrones showed everyone just how successful a modern television show could be, making other studios greedy to produce their own versions. “It’s not like had any particular love for Game of Thrones,” said Brad Stone, author of the recent book Amazon Unbound. It’s a good thing Amazon is one of the most successful companies in the world, then. “The audience expectation is coming off of the last season of Game of Thrones, not the first season.” The sheer scale of it, the locations, the cost, the ambition of it-that blew the lid off what people were expecting.Īnd if The Wheel of Time is going to impress people like Game of Thrones did, it has to start where that show left off. “It’s not like we can go say, ‘Oh, you know, Game of Thrones, season 1, they only spent this,’” Weber said. “And I was like, ‘I just want to start with our characters in the Two Rivers and see where they came from.’”īut passion won’t be enough to satisfy his bosses at Amazon: Jeff Bezos doesn’t just want a good show, he wants a good show that has the kind of reach Game of Throneshad for HBO, which means making something that appeals to everyone. “In some ways we have a harder job,” Judkins said, “to tell the audience that, like: This is a show for people beyond fantasy nerds.” And matching Game of Thrones is no easy thing, because as producer Andy Greenwald told GQ, that show “changed the context of what success was.”įrom a production standpoint, everything they pulled off on Thrones someone would’ve told you was impossible. Judkins definitely has a strong connection to the books he’s someone who really cares about this world and these characters. “You know, there were pitches right at the beginning for this show of like, ‘We open with a giant battle’ and all of this cool stuff,” he said. I was like: ‘You have to connect to these things emotionally.’” And so when I pitched it, I said the same thing. “And then she could understand, ‘Oh, maybe being a gay man is somewhat like being a woman in terms of the challenges that you face in your life and what it feels like.’ And we can both find ourselves in this. He’s been a fan of the books for years they even helped him through a tricky personal time after he came out as gay to his parents. “That was something that kind of connected my mom and me: We could both see ourselves in these books,” he said. That would be Rafe Judkins, the showrunner on The Wheel of Time. “I basically became stepdad to millions and millions of fans,” Sanderson told GQin a recent feature. “Now I’ve been able to hand that burden off to Rafe.” The series went on for so long that Jordan died before he could finish writing it that task fell to fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, who turned in the final book in 2013. That’s in part because fans have been waiting for a proper screen adaptation of The Wheel of Time for literally decades. ![]() The Wheel of Time, based on Robert Jordan’s 14-book strong epic, will be the first out, and expectations are sky-high. The Wheel of Timeis one of two huge fantasy shows in the works at Amazon Prime Video, the other being its tremendously expensive Lord of the Rings series. ![]()
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