On high of the continuing Amazon collection, The Wheel of Time is getting a prequel film captained by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Kari Skogland and the plan is to construct out an epic trilogy.
The unique information was shared by Deadline, who confirmed that BAFTA winner and Emmy nominee Kari Skogland will direct the live-action tackle the famend fantasy universe’s Age of Legends. The screenplay comes from Thor, X-Males: First Class, and Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous scribe Zack Stentz. Because it stands, this new adaptation of Robert Jordan’s books will exist individually from the collection co-produced by Sony Photos Tv and Amazon Studios.
It isn’t like continuity will likely be a lot of an issue, because the story is ready a number of millennia earlier than the timeline of the principle books, charting the emergence of the Darkish One and the tragic tales of the Forsaken – leaders “who fell sufferer to the Darkish One’s seduction.” That sounds an terrible lot like The Lord of the Rings’ Second Age.
Skogland, who’s additionally at the moment connected to a Cleopatra biopic starring Gal Gadot, shared her pleasure and plans for the film: “My imaginative and prescient is to honor the worldbuilding of Jordan’s masterwork, whereas peeling again the layers of legend and fantasy to disclose the flesh-and-blood characters beneath — flawed heroes and villains alike — peculiar folks compelled to make extraordinary selections as their world unravels.”
Regardless, it’s going to be attention-grabbing to see how the world is explored on the large display screen and (hopefully) with an enormous finances. It has been a great whereas since really epic fantasy literature has been delivered to life for cinemas, so we’re curious to see the place that is all going. The film is produced by Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon of iwot productions and Ted Discipline of Radar Photos, all of which additionally government produce for the aforementioned TV adaptation of The Wheel of Time.