Sounds like that bizarre Wheel Of Time TV show might actually happen

The long, deeply weird battle to get Robert Jordan’s beloved Wheel Of Time books onto TV screens has taken yet another—and, for once, potentially positive—turn. You might remember the series making derisive headlines last February, when production company Red Eagle Entertainment—which acquired the TV and film rights to the sprawling fantasy novels in 2008, before supposedly passing them on to Universal—purchased paid air time on FXX to broadcast Winter Dragon, a “pilot” for a possible Wheel Of Time TV show. Based on the prologue to Jordan’s first book, The Eye Of The World, the 22-minute program starred Billy Zane, Max Ryan, and some truly awful CGI, and was a pretty naked attempt by Red Eagle to hold on to the rights to the books before they lapsed from disuse, which would have happened just days after the program aired.