[Nevyn]

I guess the press release was yesterday, but just saw it today.

Seems pretty exciting and it says a lot about how far fantasy has come that they would humor Rothfuss with such a big ask.

Here is a link to the news story


and here is Rothfuss' blog about it.

I am fairly excited about this. This is one fantasy series that could reasonably adapt pretty well to TV. No idea how they'll manage to split the story between movies and TV, but look forward to finding out.

[QuickTidal]

It's cool news, but the distance between "rights purchase and planning" to "movie/TV show being shot" is a WIDE gulf.

The same thing happens to most big book series. We hear news, and then nada. Hopefully this comes to fruition, but I'll believe it when they start shooting it.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 02 October 2015 - 06:44 PM

[Nevyn]

QuickTidal, on 02 October 2015 - 06:44 PM, said:

It's cool news, but the distance between "rights purchase and planning" to "movie/TV show being shot" is a WIDE gulf.

The same thing happens to most big book series. We hear news, and then nada. Hopefully this comes to fruition, but I'll believe it when they start shooting it.

It certainly is. As the blog itself explains, this happened because the people who bought the first option on Name of the Wind let it expire.

But the fact that they are willing to talk about such an ambitious deal, and have already assigned people to oversee the project in each medium bodes well that they are fairly serious.

I would guess that they will develop a pilot and if they can get someone to bite on that they will be off to the races.

[End of Disc One]

I clicked that blog post...I can tell he still likes to talk a lot lol

[Nevyn]

The funny thing is if they DID make these shows, he truly would be the new GRRM in that he'd be under pressure to do book 3 before the content caught up.

[polishgenius]

End of Disc One, on 02 October 2015 - 07:51 PM, said:

I clicked that blog post...I can tell he still likes to talk a lot lol

Rothfuss is indeed one verbacious motherfucker. But it is promising that they were that keen on it - although I have serious doubts that Kingkiller is worth adapting, even in the expanded version, because so much of what makes it good is in the prose itself, and much of the rest is in the fitting together of narrative clues like all the stories and legends and similar things that are going to make pacing a screen story really odd. Still, if they greatly expand the world (I can't see how they'd make a multi-media thing out of this with just the books' base) but with his direct input, it could be a very interesting project.

[Nevyn]

polishgenius, on 02 October 2015 - 08:07 PM, said:

End of Disc One, on 02 October 2015 - 07:51 PM, said:

I clicked that blog post...I can tell he still likes to talk a lot lol

Rothfuss is indeed one verbacious motherfucker. But it is promising that they were that keen on it - although I have serious doubts that Kingkiller is worth adapting, even in the expanded version, because so much of what makes it good is in the prose itself, and much of the rest is in the fitting together of narrative clues like all the stories and legends and similar things that are going to make pacing a screen story really odd. Still, if they greatly expand the world (I can't see how they'd make a multi-media thing out of this with just the books' base) but with his direct input, it could be a very interesting project.

I think it could adapt ok for TV. But they are going to need to find one smooth voiced Ginger for Kvothe because he may have a lot of narrating to do to keep the first person feel.


PS:
I'll use tags since the joke is an implied spoiler for Name of the Wind

Spoiler

I hope they cast Sean Bean as Kvothe's dad

This post has been edited by Nevyn: 02 October 2015 - 08:41 PM

[Nicodimas]

polishgenius, on 02 October 2015 - 08:07 PM, said:

End of Disc One, on 02 October 2015 - 07:51 PM, said:

I clicked that blog post...I can tell he still likes to talk a lot lol

Rothfuss is indeed one verbacious motherfucker. But it is promising that they were that keen on it - although I have serious doubts that Kingkiller is worth adapting, even in the expanded version, because so much of what makes it good is in the prose itself, and much of the rest is in the fitting together of narrative clues like all the stories and legends and similar things that are going to make pacing a screen story really odd. Still, if they greatly expand the world (I can't see how they'd make a multi-media thing out of this with just the books' base) but with his direct input, it could be a very interesting project.

Yeah! This series is crazy deep, you could read it and miss the truly important bits in the background. I have often debated and if they can capture a LOST-like sense of wonder at his quest on Chandrian that's the only way they are going to get it right. If the TV series can capture that to the ultimately movie to see his...

Spoiler

Fall

20-30 episode TV series to a Single Movie. That's they only way to do it.

This post has been edited by Nicodimas: 13 October 2015 - 12:26 AM