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Multiple Upcoming Games, Movies Based On Jordan's Wheel of Time
Today film studio Red Eagle Entertainment announced plans to establish Red Eagle Games, a studio that will produce games based on Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. The games will be developed alongside movie adaptations of the series, which Red Eagle announced a few months ago. They'll be working with Universal on the films. "[Red Eagle producer Rick] Selvage said in an interview that the game company will make a series of games that will be co-launched with the movies. In addition, Red Eagle Games will make a massively multiplayer online game based on the Wheel of Time universe." Wheel of Time fan site 'Dragonmount' recently spoke with Selvage about the movie plans.
Featuring exciting braid-pulling and skirt-smoothing mini-games!
From IMDB.
Miracle Max: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Montoya: What's that?
Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change
Well, so much for hoping he was mostly dead. Didn't take them long to start trying to shake that money tree... Although, I think the movies were in the works for some time before he passed.
Mess not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
Hm... The Lord of the Rings turned into three movies (one for each book). So in that case ca. 3 hours movie out of 300 pages of the book.
In comparison the Wheel of Time consists of 12 books (13th coming sometime?) each with roughly 600-1000 pages IIRC.
So if 100pages = 1hour, we'll get (600-1000) * 12 / 100 = 72-120 hours of movies?
Or roughly the Lord of the Rings movies times twelve...
I wonder how many movies there are going to be? Hopefully I'm still alive when the last one comes out(if they ever wrap the series).
They'll probably start out with a clear story arc and a plan to make six or seven very good films that wow audiences, then just belt out a few extra ones that focus largely on minor characters that viewers don't care about while ignoring the compelling story that got everyone interested in the first place. Universal will then go out of business when there's only one movie left to make, and Paramount will take over and expect us all to believe their conclusion is a valid part of the series.
(If you can't decide whether to mod this funny, mod it insightful or just stomp off and cry into your pile of dead-end hardcovers, you must be a disgruntled Robert Jordan fan.)
Unfortunately the game is impossible to finish, because it dynamically generates more and more new mini-games, side quests, and bosses as the player gets closer to the end.
Wiki links are only useful when there's a chance that somebody reading the article hasn't heard of the series. I can talk to non-nerds and they still know what the series is, even if they don't know much about it.
I guess what I'm getting at is that you'll have to turn in your nerd card.
On the other hand, can you think of any other book series so perfectly suited to the MMO genre? At least the developers can claim that the endless grinding through repetitive content, thousands of minor characters nobody cares about, and people constantly coming back after being killed is true to the source material.
Because "doing it justice" would mean somehow designing a game where the the more you play, the further away end gets!
That would require some impressive new technology, to say the least...
I stole this sig from someone cleverer than me.
There was a definite end. It was called Tarmon Gai'den. Sheeesh.
Jordan thinks any character ever seen in a book needs a name. They can save about 5 hours just by not naming all their extras.
The last four or so books in the series will probably fit on a single page of the script.
And finally, Jordan didn't finish. There's a good 30 minutes out of the film right there.
Haha. I can see it now. They get all the right people with all the right motivations working on it. They create a movie that is tight, well-paced, dramatic, exciting, all while being faithful to the source material. Both fans of the books and newcomers are loving it, getting more and more into it with every minute. Then, right after a wipe ending a minor scene, BAM! the credits start rolling. Howls of rage rise from the theater as torches (where did those come from?) are lit and pitchforks raised, and there's rioting in the streets.
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Hmm.. 3 days.. Well, that is 72 hours. Can make quite a few movies to cover 72 hours.
An epic fantasy shot in the style of 24. I do not know if I should be horrified or intrigued.
I really hope there's going to be a "pull braid" emote, and of course "don't understand other gender". If they want to be really adventurous, high-level players might even get "pull braid (other person)", although that's a pretty bold interpreteation of established lore.
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