# Wheel of Time - the movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 13, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-the-movie/459823 "2008-08-13T06:37:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-the-movie/459823/21 "2008-08-13T21:02:20Z")
[QUOTE=Just Some Guy] Mainly because they were the first two stupid cartoons from the eighties I could think of. 🙂 [/QUOTE] :eek: Fool of a Took! Thundercats was NOT stupid!! Begone, ere I summon Silver \*\*Tyger Girl \*\* to smite thee! ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-the-movie/459823/22 "2008-08-13T21:22:29Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] :eek: Fool of a Took! Thundercats was NOT stupid!! Begone, ere I summon Silver \*\*Tyger Girl \*\* to smite thee! [/QUOTE] Snarf snarf. Oh look, Tigra just did Something Stupid (just as well or we wouldn’t have a plot for this week). Thundercats, ho! ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-the-movie/459823/23 "2008-08-13T21:32:16Z")
[QUOTE=SCSimmons] I always thought it would make a good TV series. I’m sure they could squeeze about twenty seasons of one-hour episodes out of it … [/QUOTE] Never work. Seasons 3-36 would be a succession of one-hour episodes consisting of long ruminations on the characters’ choice of traveling cloak and angsty bitchiness. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-the-movie/459823/24 "2008-08-13T22:07:57Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] I’ve never read the books; they’re bestsellers, but an awful lot of people seem to think they comprise a big shit pizza. ETA: I’m using “big shit pizza” as a literary metaphor. [/QUOTE] To use “shit pizza” as a metaphor for Wheel of Time you need to put a whole hell of a lot of superficial details into your description. Come back with at least four full paragraphs on your “shit pizza” and resubmit, please. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-the-movie/459823/25 "2008-08-13T23:21:25Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] Right now fantasy epics are in, too, what with LOTR, Harry Potter, and Chronicles of Narnia all enjoying decent box office take. [/QUOTE] _Golden Compass_ withered and died, and that had a marketable profile. Most of the other similar genre-type efforts (e.g. _Pathfinder_, which is straight nonmagical history but was sold as fantasy) have simply tanked. One more high-profile failure and Hollywood will flinch back from chasing the trend. Remember, when _Gladiator_ came out, the “sword-and-sandal” movie was “back.” Then _Troy_ and _Kingdom of Heaven_ underperformed, and that was that. The phenomenon is as old as the industry: Hollywood never quite grasps that the winning formula is “entertaining movie,” not “movie resembling previous successes.” So they may take a crack at _Wheel of Time_ as a last gasp in a fading niche, but they’re already on to the “post-modern superhero movie” as we speak. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-the-movie/459823/26 "2008-08-14T00:17:27Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] To use “shit pizza” as a metaphor for Wheel of Time you need to put a whole hell of a lot of superficial details into your description. Come back with at least four full paragraphs on your “shit pizza” and resubmit, please. -Joe [/QUOTE] I see what you’re getting at, but I don’t know enough about the series for that kind of embellishment. I gather it’s some kind of sword-and-sorcery fantasy? I seem to recall my brother really enjoyed the first few books, then kept reading out of stubborness, then gave up. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-the-movie/459823/27 "2008-08-14T00:48:41Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Most of the other similar genre-type efforts… [/QUOTE] Some that seem to be relatively successful and are helping perpetuate the Fantasy film genre are: _Chronicles of Narnia_ _Bridge to Terabithia_ _The Spiderwick Chronicles_ _Nanny McPhee_ _Series of Unfortunate Events_ (sort of successful, but no sequel on the horizon) _The Water Horse_ But less successful were: _Peter Pan_ _Golden Compass_ _The Seeker_ (The Dark Is Rising) So there’s still some life in the book adaptation yet. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-the-movie/459823/28 "2008-08-14T01:23:53Z")
[QUOTE=Just Some Guy] If I had a nickle for every time a studio “acquired” the rights to something followed by the fans ran around screaming “They’re making a \_\_\_\_\_\_ movie!” and then the film never gets out of the talking about it stage I’d be able to fund my own Thundercats vs. Go-Bots movie. There’s about a 1% chance that this ever goes anywhere but I can see the reaction already albeit not in this thread… [/QUOTE] The Elric movie is also at a standstill as well; either that or nobody’s talking (I occasionally hang out at Michael’s Weekly Miscellany, checking for news). ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-the-movie/459823/29 "2008-08-14T01:28:43Z")
My brother was on a panel about Worldcon about The Wheel of Time (with Brandon Sanderson, who’s writing the last book), and he said no one mentioned the movie deal at all. I guess the news just came out? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-the-movie/459823/30 "2008-08-14T14:41:21Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] The Elric movie is also at a standstill as well; either that or nobody’s talking (I occasionally hang out at Michael’s Weekly Miscellany, checking for news). [/QUOTE] Zelazny’s _Amber_ Chronicles are similarly optioned and shelved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-time-the-movie/459823.md?page=1)