New ‘Wheel of Time’ Animated Series in the Works From ‘Arcane,’ ‘League of Legends’ Producer Thomas Vu

Aren’t great is an understatement

None of this will ever happen. In the last couple of years, iwot has announced: * An Age of Legends movie trilogy. * A "White Tower" animated movie. * A "AAA" open-world RPG. (The studio they created for this was apparently quietly shut down a couple of weeks ago.) * Some "immersive" WoT experience (nobody knew what the f*** that meant). * Some AI-related projects (including some collaboration with Framestore announced a few weeks ago) apparently needed to manage their vast "transmedia strategy". * And now apparently an animated series *and* another video game. None of these projects will ever come to fruition, since no industry executive is going to greenlight anything WoT-related after the cancellation of the Amazon show. There is no market for this stuff.

A WOT CRPG would be interesting. There are plenty of rules they could add from the books. Different weapons for channelers of each gender, different element affinities and weakness, weapons that require a certain gender composition to use, party compositions that favor single damage vs parties better for AoE, healers/buffers not being able to use the power on themselves, etc.

Legally it has to be iWot. They own the rights

>without billions in development. Arcane was insanely expensive. If you are trying to do WoT but this time without the crazy budget, the guys who spent $250m on as series of Arcane are not your template

Agreed! Plenty of high fantasy works would be better served with an animated adaptation.

I mean Arcane cost a shit load of money too, just because it was animation does NOT mean it was c****.

Producer =/= Animation studio Is Fortiche animating it?

The headlines misleading. This guy had almost nothing to do with Arcane and the company, iWoT, are basically scammers that have been squatting on the ip for decades. The original author described them as “pissing in his soup” or something to that effect iirc.

Wheel of time will get cancelled in 5 min if it's close to the budget of arcane though.

>**Previously head of creative and IP franchise at “League of Legends” maker Riot Games**, Vu is best known for shaping the massively popular online video game, which boasts more than 100 million monthly active players, and a franchise spanning esports, music, games and television. **Vu was also an executive producer on Netflix’s “Arcane,”** a critically acclaimed animated series adaptation of the video game. EP is still a wildly vague credit to have. He may have gotten it simply for having been the head of creative and IP franchise at Riot

These are the real questions. The heart can hype but the brain is a cynic

While I do not want to downplay Riot's involvement in Arcane, as they are the creators of the show, I think most people read the title and are immediately thinking of Arcane's animation as Arcane's visuals are a masterclass. The animation studio for Arcane was Fortiche. While Riot is a heavy investor in Fortiche, they are basically the reason Fortiche was able to expand enough to handle a project like Arcane, they are separate. And none of this announcement is mentioning them. Now moving past animation, I think most people like the writing, at least in terms of season 1 (2 had more criticism). Very tight paced show with great characters. The most public facing creators of Arcane on Riot's side are Christian Linke and Alex Yee, the co creators. Amanda Overton can also be mentioned, she was a writer and executive story editor and specifically involved a lot in the Cait and Vi story. If you look at the AMA from season 1 it was those three (AMA started with Christian and Alex, Amanda popped in) https://www.reddit.com/r/arcane/comments/yp9d4b/s1_spoilers_were_christian_linke_and_alex_yee/ While I have not watched everything on the behind the scenes stuff available, I have seen a decent amount. Take with a grain of salt as maybe he an important figure and is just in the background, but I have seen basically nothing from him in regards to Arcane. And even just doing a quick search while writing this comment, I am not finding much. A few interviews where they mention Arcane as it was popular, but then the interview didn't really seem to have much about Arcane. Internet searching after news is dropped makes things harder as SOE prioritizes recent news, but pretty much everything I can find relating him to Arcane is just this announcement.

I thought it had its strongest season by far when they canceled it.

As someone who hasn't read the books, I mostly enjoyed the tv show and honestly when it finished was really enjoying it. I absolutely loved the setpieces and costume design especially

Episode 1 when Perrin not only had a wife but accidently killed her was a massive red flag. I tried to like the show after that, but it was garbage. Not one swear word is said in the entire book series besides "blood and ashes" and the like. For some reason Mat keeps saying shit and f***. Terrible adaptation

Very much agreed. I did have to just ignore that there was a book series because many of the changes were incompatible with the world in the books.

As a book reader, I hated the changes they made simply because they were moving things around from later books and storylines, into other seasons that were supposed to focus on one major arc at a time. It made no sense to move things around the way they did

It got a lot better towards the end. Though I can understand why most people wouldn't sit through the first season just for a promise of it getting better later.  To be fair, the production was screwed royally by COVID, a lot more than others.

THIS, this is the number one reason I've always thought animated series are the best options for epic fantasy series. the special effects cost the same as the regular animations so you can actually tell the story without cutting corners. i mean it we can have a dragon ball z episode where its basically the villain grand standing and then goku powering up for 20 minutes we can add the smaller scenes from a book series with a huge dedicated fan base.

Hopefully not strictly to the books. Or there will be 50 seasons and half of them will be filler.

It's iWot. The project will be cancelled in 3 months

You don’t want Maksim fighting the dark one?

Best i can do is a director that creates a new character for his boyfriend.

Everyone knows that WoT should be condensed. Hopefully if this goes ahead, they will actually let Rand be the main character and cut unnecessary filler instead of the main characters development

Eh, that "Rand" image is pretty clearly AI generated.