# Wheel of time movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967 "2014-11-07T12:48:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Henryunderborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Henryunderborn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henryunderborn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/1 "2014-11-07T12:48:17Z")
Does anyone know any truth about the reality on a wheel of time ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/2 "2014-11-07T12:50:48Z")
I thought it had been established to be a flat circle. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/3 "2014-11-07T13:01:40Z")
It’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/4 "2014-11-07T13:29:41Z")
I’m guessing the OP means a film of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time Series. Universal Studios optioned the rights but it hasn’t got past the development phase. There was a fan film of [Chapter 32 (Flight from Shadow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt10nbVSerY)) from \*The Eye of the World \*released last year. ---
**Author:** ![Henryunderborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Henryunderborn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henryunderborn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/5 "2014-11-07T13:39:05Z")
For all these years of reading wheel of time, anticipating a film. That fan movie first 3 minutes was like a bullet going through my head exploding my skull in slow motion and then being hit in rewind, while every tine piece of skull had to be fused back together. I will taint myself no more ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/6 "2014-11-07T13:49:04Z")
> [@Henryunderborn](#): > > For all these years of reading wheel of time, anticipating a film. That fan movie first 3 minutes was like a bullet going through my head exploding my skull in slow motion and then being hit in rewind, while every tine piece of skull had to be fused back together. > > I will taint myself no more Didn’t Rand clean the taint? ---
**Author:** ![Henryunderborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Henryunderborn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henryunderborn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/7 "2014-11-07T14:06:45Z")
I think he had so many girls to do that for him ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/8 "2014-11-07T16:10:20Z")
The truth is that any movie, no matter who did it or how much money it was given, would be _horrible_. ---
**Author:** ![Henryunderborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Henryunderborn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henryunderborn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/9 "2014-11-07T16:23:29Z")
two ways the movie could be made. 1. Dungeons and Dragons : Return of the King (Jason Statham) which is like what that fan movie was giving me. conclusion: Lame 2. Robin Hood (2010) : (Russel Crow) Which would be like, incorporating the personalities, to the scenery, to the major engagement RIVETED. conclusion, there is no end, the wheel turns and yarrrrrr ---
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/10 "2014-11-07T16:34:27Z")
> [@Henryunderborn](#): > > \ > > 1. Dungeons and Dragons : Return of the King (Jason Statham) Are…are you posting from a universe where Peter Jackson made a big-budget trilogy of movies based on _Dungeons and Dragons_, starting Jason Statham? Because that would explain a lot. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/11 "2014-11-07T16:42:55Z")
Honestly, the series is too long. It’d require a\* Game of Thrones\* style TV treatment to do right, but it’d also need a lot of editing, especially in the middle of the series when the books start to drag. ---
**Author:** ![Henryunderborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Henryunderborn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henryunderborn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/12 "2014-11-07T17:15:24Z")
> [@Reno\_Nevada](#): > > Are…are you posting from a universe where Peter Jackson made a big-budget trilogy of movies based on _Dungeons and Dragons_, starting Jason Statham? Because that would explain a lot. Dungeons Siege, the movie Jason Statham was in. had a very GIMICKY association to the scene play. It would need to be more articulate, like… Robin Hood. Only to its style and basis. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/13 "2014-11-07T17:36:12Z")
> [@Reno\_Nevada](#): > > Are…are you posting from a universe where Peter Jackson made a big-budget trilogy of movies based on _Dungeons and Dragons_, starting Jason Statham? Because that would explain a lot. [He’s talking about this execrable Uwe Boll movie.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460780/) ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/14 "2014-11-11T12:49:19Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > The truth is that any movie, no matter who did it or how much money it was given, would be _horrible_. Yep, the series was too long, had too many characters, and jumped all over the map. Even the most dedicated and expensive attempt at putting it into film or television would be a nightmare to present even just the necessary information to an audience. ---
**Author:** ![Henryunderborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Henryunderborn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henryunderborn)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/15 "2014-11-11T13:53:32Z")
First multiple frame movie playing at once? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/16 "2014-11-11T14:05:03Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > Yep, the series was too long, had too many characters, and jumped all over the map. Even the most dedicated and expensive attempt at putting it into film or television would be a nightmare to present even just the necessary information to an audience. Hell, I just re-read the last three books (which I loved), and I \*still \*needed to check the WoT Wiki on a regular basis to remember who did what in the where now. (Although skipping four books in the middle may have contributed to that). ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/17 "2014-11-11T14:56:48Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > (Although skipping four books in the middle may have contributed to that). Doubtful. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/18 "2014-11-11T15:05:08Z")
Yeah, from what I can tell nothing really happened in books 8 through 11. That’s why I skipped them. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/19 "2014-11-11T15:26:57Z")
I would have said the same thing about Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones before they were made. Granted I don’t think WoT is as well written, or as adaptable as those works, but I’m willing to be convinced. There is solid material there, it just needs the right treatmernt. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967/20 "2014-11-11T16:00:05Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Yeah, from what I can tell nothing really happened in books 8 through 11. That’s why I skipped them. Someone took a bath, for most of a book. Cadsuane, maybe? So that happened. I can’t see anyone making movies out of this series; how could they possibly expect to get all the hairbraid-pulling and skirt smoothing accurate enough for the fans to accept? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-movie/703967.md?page=2)