Amazon’s The Wheel Of Time Teaser Trailer Is Here
September 3, 2021 by brennon
Amazon Prime's other pretty massive Fantasy series is now slated for a release this November. The Wheel Of Time, based on the work of Robert Jordan and later Brandon Sanderson, is coming to Prime 19th November 2021, and here is the trailer they released this week.
The Wheel Of Time Teaser Trailer // Amazon Prime
It all looks suitably epic and from watching the reactions of a lot of Wheel Of Time fans, they seem happy with these early results. I should note that I have no horse in this race as I have never (probably to my shame) even looked at the books, never mind read them.
However, I am aware that they are beloved and cherished and there are plenty of fans out there as eager for this as I am for Amazon's Middle-earth adventure. It will be interesting to see if the folks at Amazon can stick the landing. They could well have themselves a proper ol' Game Of Thrones on their hands here that will bring in many, many folks (like me) who have only heard of the books but never read them.
If you're a Wheel Of Time fan it would be neat to hear your thoughts on the trailer in the comments below...
The proof will be in the pudding!
"...there are plenty of fans out there as eager for this as I am for Amazon's Middle-earth adventure"
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Is it just me again (once more) or are the audio levels of that trailer way to high? Or is the distorted sound on purpose? Sounds terrible IMHO.
Also, never read the books. I don’t even think I’ve ever heard of them before…
I think it’s your headset
Then everything should sound distorted… which is doesn’t.
I’ve watched it around 6 times since it came out and I don’t know what you’re talking about. is it the music/sound mix at the end?
At 1:40, when the Lady ramps up her magic and the following scenes. It’s like the base is way to high. “Overdramatic” if that makes any sense. But then again maybe it’s just sound design on purpose that I don’t like.
I think that’s it, it’s not distorted for me but they’ve just done a rising crescendo for the finale you can blame Nolan for that, be thankful it doesn’t have the wamp wamps from inception that was too popular for a while
Nope is IS too high, dunno why they do that for trailers (they’ve been doing it with adverts for years now). For some reason the ad men (and now those marketing new films), feel that they need to grab your attention by ramping up the volume compared to the normal tv program volume. Ad men obviously feel they exist on a higher intellectual plane to the rest of us mortals, and thus we need to be treated like sheep 🙁
Can’t say I ever heard of this – had to Wikipedia it to find out the basic premise. And that’s the problem with the trailer for me. Sure it looks expensive, but it doesn’t give much sense what this is about or why I should invest in it. Seems a bit generic to me on first impression. Happy to be proven wrong in due course.
like Lord of the Rings, if you don’t know it it’s just an expensive tourist film for New Zealand
Over all Wheel of Time is very generic fantasy book series so it’s adaption also being that is to be expected.
I have read some of the books for this, they were still being published when I was reading them so it has been a while. The trailer didn’t give much of the story away, I’ll interested to see how they translate this into a tv show.
Does anyone know if they are doing a book per series?
I can’t see them going for 13 seasons, although I wouldn’t say know. As far as I am aware they’ve not announced how they are breaking the story down, I will say even at 8 (the same as Game of Thrones) they’ll have to cut like buggery to get to the end, so hopefully a season per will be the way they go
Yes 13 is a big ask, maybe they’ll try for 2 books a season that would give them a more manageable 6/7 seasons assuming it lasts that long. I’ve dug out the books and I’ve got up to 11 so I should really reread them to find out what happened in the end (and get the missing 2).
it’s worth it, the ending was excellent and somewhat unexpected. Brandon did a terrific job
12 out of the 13 books were fantastic, screw you Lord of Chaos, but it’s a massive undertaking and I imagine it will have to be cut down significantly to get it on the screen. It will be fascinating to see how they try to cover the story and what is sacrificed along the way. There are characters and threads that seem insignificant in one book only for them to become huge plot points down the line, so too much condensing of characters will have far reaching repercussions. On the other hand will general audiences take to something that makes… Read more »
I have read something by Robert Jordan donkeys years ago, cannot recall what it was, but it wasn’t this.
That’s the lady from Gone Girl isn’t it?
he wrote half a dozen Conan stories, so maybe it’s that. He’s done some non-fiction as well
Yes it was Conan! I had some hard back collected editions of his short stories!
Thank you! That was driving me mental trying to think what it was!
Yep, that’s Rosamund Pike.
I remember reading the first however many. At some point I stopped reading fantasy (for a while – I read some Black Library these days) and the series rumbled on.
From what I remember they did justify the tremendous number of pages, a truly epic story. Contrast with (I think) Tad Williams who once spent an entire page describing a fkn onion.
I’ll maybe check it out, I’m certain I CBA reading the damn thing.
I think at this stage watching the show is probably the way to go, if you like it you can always have a punt at the books down the line.
That’s the nice thing about adaptations if you find one you like you can revisit the source. If you know the books and they screw the adaptation it’s always sickening.
With the amount of time I’m able to make for reading lately I’d never finish it in my lifetime – somewhat appropriately.
the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills
Looks nice but also meh at same time. So very much like fantasy book series that it’s based on.
different strokes I suppose. I enjoyed the books (not you book 6!) and I’m much more interested in this than in the middle earth show that is coming as well.
With Amazon’s focus seemingly being on spending Hundreds of Millions of dollars on Fantasy stuff, surely now is the time for a remake / reboot of Hawk the Slayer!?!
Come on whose with me?????
Who would play Voltan, I’m thinking Liam Neeson but he voices him with his Ballymena accent, like a million ways to die in the west. “someone in here is going get fuckin kilt”
Get me two tickets to that movie right now!!!!
I will give the first few episodes a look to see how well they stick to the source material. Amazon and the rest of Hollywood cannot resist adding their own politics to everything so we will see if they can resist here because it sounds like they have not been able to resist for the middle earth series.
By Hollywood politics’ do you mean check list of sexual orientations/racial groups that seem to be required in everything?
That thing that you are talking about isn’t even actual thing and has nothing to do with reality of how Hollywood operates. Sure in your own world that’s how it is but not in real world.
Umm.. not in the real world? Hollywood (or media) has ruined many good IPs – Star Wars, Doctor Who, the MOTU Revelations, the Anne Boleyn remake – such a waste of an incredible actress. Sadly, this is how media thinks. It is forcing such nonsense on us to indoctrinate without any respect for the original work. If they’re going to twist the original characters to suit identity politics – which they are – then why bother lift the series? Why not make their own? Why not have a spin off of Leia’s childhood, or Teela’s advancement to captain of the… Read more »
Started reading Wheel of Time when I unemployed and found it in my local library. 700+ pages per volume is a lot and I got to about book 7 over the years. Jordan died before the end and someone took over. I will finish the series someday. Think there are 15 books if you include the prequel. Sadly it’s amazon prime so I won’t see it… too many subscription services. Personally I’m waiting for Critical Role animated to hit prime before i have my ‘free trial’ for 30 days. I’d like so see someone do Raymond E. Feist’s Magician series.… Read more »
Two young boys growing into powerful men, and their achievements along the way?
In modern times? No. Let’s wait 5 years for the film studios to collapse and realise no one wants to watch pandering, insulting – to men and women of all ethnicities – tripe.
Hmmmm, absolutely loved the first five books, but never made it beyond there (or was it six? Seven??). I remember it being mostly about the protagonists being scolded by their significant others by then. But that was almost fifteen years ago, so maybe I’m ready for it now. Hell, if I can read War and Peace, I should be able to this, right? …right…?
it would have been book 6 it is a bugger to get past, I’ll be honest, read a synopsis online for it and skip straight to 7
It’s good to know that it got better after book 6. Thanks! Knowing myself, I’ll feel the need to start at book 1 again, so it’ll take some time before I’m there again.
the book series is a total of 15 books + prequel, I am really looking forward to the TV series but really scared hoping they don’t ruin it like what happen to the shannara chronicles series done by MTV, cool thing about the trailer it really didn’t mention anything about the dragon reborn and focused more on the Aes Sedai (magic women or women that can channel)making people who don’t know anything about the series think that it’s all about them, if you haven’t read it I really recommend this series it’s a jewel and if you liked the game… Read more »
I imagine there will be no mention of the Dragon Reborn at all. It won’t be about Rand, or Perrin. It’ll be about Egwene and Nynaeve.
Makes you wonder when they’ll cast Perrin, Mat, Egwene and Nynave though. The actors there bare no relation whatsoever to those characters.
please don’t say that, if it’s not about Rand, Perrin and Mat it’s not worth watching, and yeah the case does not match the characters, ever since they announce who the actors are there has been a lot of disappointed fans, at the end amazon is making the series to make money, if the Avatar was a white kid and there are nord gods that are not white and blond (thor movies) than everything is possible
never read the books its looking good.
Hopefully this will be better than the wizards first rule adaptation although that guy from MadMax an Matrix was a great move.Bruce Spence as Zed plays him well as the cantankerous hungary wizard.
I hope the computer graphics improve in the actual series, because I could see the green screen / matt backgrounds they were using.