Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! YES! YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES! 
 

Please say they don’t screw it up. Please. 

They need to be tied into the show or we will end up having different Actors playing LTT and the Forsaken and to much contradictory stuff and it could quickly turn into a mess.

But its still a very long journey and a lot of things have to happen first.

I'm very skeptical about all of this. In the best case, it will be highly derivative work. And using RJ world after he's dead and he basically said he didn't like other people doing it... not nice

3 hours ago, king of nowhere said:

I'm very skeptical about all of this. In the best case, it will be highly derivative work. And using RJ world after he's dead and he basically said he didn't like other people doing it... not nice

I feel the same.  Don't get me wrong I'm excited at the prospect of more WoT media, I just can't help think that because info on the AoL is so sparse in the books the majority of the movies will be a sort of 'official fanfic'.  More than happy to be proven wrong though!!

yuck.  red eagle??  this looks like a big mess.  the only way it does well is if Amazon connects it to the tv show.  otherwise it will just be weird.  kinda like the fox fantastic 4 movies while marvel was doing the mcu

I am actually very worried by these news. This probably means that rights to the show were split between Amazon and creators of the Winter Dragon pilot - that Amazon has no rights to show anything of what happened in the Age of Legends, while other party has rights only to the events from the Age of Legends.
While I have nothing against having a movie on Age of Legends, I am actually quite excited about it, this would be a huge setback for the Amazon show to not have those glimpses into the past Ages. Some of the books, eg. Shadow Rising, are so much better because of the retrospections from the Age of Legends it would be such a loss if the Amazon series couldn't have those. I really hope this is not the case.

Yeah. Not sure how to process this....

I'm so up & down about the show.

It's kind of like having a kid. There's all this anticipation and excitement and anxiety...

And then the day comes and ... You got like a 50/50 chance of having a cute or an ugly baby. 

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On 7/14/2021 at 8:38 AM, myn0s said:

I just can't help think that because info on the AoL is so sparse in the books the majority of the movies will be a sort of 'official fanfic'.

"Official fanfic" is a great description, and one that nicely encapsulates why I'm down on the idea of an Age of Legends movie. It takes something that lives in so many of our imaginations, and canonizes someone's version of it. Someone unconnected with the original work. Yes, we'll still have the version in our heads, but it somehow becomes lesser standing next to a "licensed" version.

So much of the mystique of the Age of Legends is that it's... legendary. There are artifacts, there are tales, but the millennia have mythologized the truth so much that it is more a Gleeman's tale than a historical period. That's a whole theme in The Wheel of Time. That's the opening catechism. To nail it down erases some of that malleable wonder.

FURTHER, from the description, it sounds like the story takes place after The Strike at Shayol Ghul. At earliest, it's the Breaking of the World, but the mention of the White Tower makes it seem much later. Either way, not the Age of Legends. And if they can't get that bit right, I don't have much hope for this Official Fanfic to be true to its source material.