Yet Another Show That Shouldn't Be Made, But Actually Is This Time

[mara_dienne459]

 So, while Paolini's Eragon tv series doesn't seem to be taking off the ground at all, yet another author's book is. Rebecca Yarros, author of Fourth Wing, is officially getting a show green-lit by Amazon. She's going to be part of the show, apparently, but she's not writing it. She's just going to be an executive producer. She has also promised that her show isn't going to "make the same mistake as Game of Thrones" and "overtake" her books.

Full article here: https://winteriscoming.net/posts/fourth-wing-author-says-the-tv-show-won-t-make-the-same-mistake-as-game-of-thrones-01htcg8gdrps?a_aid=47266&fbclid=IwY2xjawKEkXBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCNE80QzN3ZmZqbzBlQ0RsAR5MvQQKmIi6RHLj7Fmcze-KRPyIl8hF-AcUEqBLuQtVZwdXDY_QL22IqAecsA_aem_fSqYS-3GEfBZ_av_3njcEg

Comments

[epistler]

*loud incoherent screams of rage*

I HOPE IT FUCKING BOMBS WORSE THAN THE FUCKING HINDENBURG.

[masterghandalf]

*groans and facepalms*

[snarkbotanya]

Blargh... I hope Amazon fumbles it worse than The Rings of Power. Or that it gets stuck in as much development hell as the Eragon series apparently is.

[epistler]

There is some hope - after all Throne of Glass is at least as popular, yet its TV series never got past the stage of selling the rights to Hulu, and that was YEARS ago.

[minionnumber2]

I've always said, I don't believe shows exist until I see a trailer. Even then, they can get cancelled like in the case of the CW Powerpuff Girls.

[baronleduc]

Same mistake as GoT ? Huh? Someone, please ELI5 what's the sitch about GoT making mistakes.

Welp. Let's hope this TV adaptation is going into development hell.

Fourth Wing is trash. There is no way the TV show will be better than the book. Unless the writers would have 100% freedom to do whatever the fuck the want with.

[mara_dienne459]

Hey! More updates on this! Apparently she’s getting a woman to be the showrunner and she’s said her main male lead is definitely going to be played by a person of color, but as of yet there’s no cast list available. I also love the description of the show’s premise, which is that Violet Sorrengail - already a scribe of the academy and not preparing to go into that role as apparently was the case in the book - gets shunted into the academy to train and bond with a dragon. That’s it. That’s the premise.

Yeah, that’s not at all what the book shows. Not entirely, anyway.