The Wheel Of Time Showrunner Hopes The Show Can Run For Eight Seasons
By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 16, 2021 12:42 pm EST
If showrunner Rafe Judkins has his way, we’ll be looking at eight seasons of “The Wheel of Time,” the same number “Thrones” had. Go ahead and make room in your schedule from now until 2029, presuming the show is a success at filling the prestige fantasy void and the “Wheel” can keep turning that long.
In “The Wheel of Time,” Pike’s character, Morraine “embarks on a dangerous, world-spanning journey with five young men and women, one of whom is prophesied to be the Dragon Reborn, who will either save or destroy humanity.” Judkins told Deadline:
Playing the Long Game
It’s sometimes a red flag when you hear creators say they’ve got a bunch of sequels, or in this case, seasons, planned out ahead of time, as if they’re asking for too big a commitment when they should just be focusing on a delivering a good story the first time around. With “The Wheel of Time,” it’s a little different in that there’s this literary roadmap for it, much like there was for Denis Villeneuve with “Dune.”
“I think Wheel of Time lends itself better to a television series. That’s why I think now is the right moment for it to finally exist because people who know [the] books know it’s just a story about the characters and the journeys each of them is on. The amount you’d have to compress it to turn it into a series of movies is too much. It would take away the heart of what’s good about it.”
