Every subsequent book in the series would reach the top spot on The New York Times Best Seller list, which attracted the attention of top-tier production studios. At that point he started to slow down, delivering a book every two years instead of every one. Jordan was writing full-time at a rapid pace for the next several years until he completed the seventh volume, A Crown of Swords, which came out in 1996. When the second book, The Great Hunt, came along, sales of The Eye of the World shot up again, selling double what it had sold the first time. Upon release, the 40,000 first editions sold out almost immediately. Tor prepared a marketing campaign of 5,000 Advance Reader Copies of the first book in the series, The Eye of the World, and sent one to every bookstore in the country. That first book came five years late, finally getting published in 1989, but Doherty fell in love with it anyways. “I’ve got a great idea for an epic fantasy, and it’s going to be six books,” Jordan told Doherty. The story was laid out on a panel that included Doherty at the World Science Fiction Convention in 2008. It is said that there are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time, but our story starts in 1984, when James Oliver Rigney - better known by his pen name Robert Jordan - proposed his idea for an epic fantasy series to the head of Tor Books, Tom Doherty. After a bit of research, I managed to track the journey of The Wheel of Time from pen to print to production and got a better understanding of the agonizing wait the fans have endured. One would think that with such a massive audience, studios would have jumped at the chance to adapt this series years ago, so what took so long?Īs a younger fan of the series, I was interested in answering that question myself. And yet the saga hasn’t gotten a proper film or TV adaptation until now. When one of the best-selling epic fantasy series of the past century finally lands a major studio, you pay attention.Īnd we do mean “best-selling,” as in an estimated 80 million copies sold worldwide. We here at have spent a lot of time writing about Amazon’s upcoming adaptation of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time novel series. We dig into the saga’s torturous journey from page to screen. By John Fallon 3 years ago The first book in the epic Wheel of Time series came out 30 years ago, but we’re just now getting an adaptation.
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