Co-writer Brandon Sanderson recently explained the depth of his involvement as a producer in Prime Video’s wheel of time series.
On his podcast Intentionally blank, Sanderson explained how he had “much more” influence on episodes 1-4 of the eight-episode first season, “1 and 2 in particular”, and had consulted episodes 5 and 6 before they were released. filmed when the COVID pandemic hit. While communication with series showrunner Rafe Judkins slowed as production was thrown into chaos, Sanderson praised Judkins for having a distinct style and vision for the adaptation and executing it “pretty well”.
Explaining his distance from some production details, Sanderson said, “Don’t overestimate my involvement in all of this. I’m happy and excited to be a part of it, but I wasn’t there in the theater. writer, I’ve ‘I haven’t been to any of the meetings. The only meetings I’ve been to were years ago when it was back at Sony and they were making a movie and they brought many times. Everything else was my meeting with Rafe, just with the showrunner.”
The first one wheel of time novel, The eye of the world, was published in 1990 by author Robert Jordan, who would write the next ten books in the series before his untimely death in 2007. Jordan started the twelfth book but, diagnosed with terminal heart disease, told his most important family trace the details so that the series can be completed. Jordan’s widow and editor Harriet McDougal cast Sanderson, who was already a rising fantasy with her own Born of the Mists series, to end the wheel of time job.
Jordan wanted the twelfth novel to be the final installment in the series, but after reviewing the project, Sanderson split the story into three books. Sanderson’s work has been hailed for capturing Jordan’s style and tone, as well as arguing in a sprawling story that many critics felt had spun out of control as Jordan built his world. immense. Sanderson, a part-time creative writing professor, is also known for his academic approach to building a fantasy world. Having invented “Sanderson’s Laws of Magic”, guidelines for creating magical systems in fictional worlds.
The wheel of time Season 1 is now streaming on Prime Video, and while Sanderson has read “big chunks” of Season 2, no release window has yet been announced.
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