Apparently the Wheel of Time television series is gathering speed: http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/wheel-of-time-tv-series-sony-1202390897/
Who should play Goblin!
(as much as I love the Malazan Book of the Fallen, for now I think it’s too high-magic to be done as a TV series, and too much material to be done as a movie or movies).
Hmm, tough call. They’d have to have comedic chops. Maybe Chris Tucker, even if he is too young? If one wanted to ignore the text, which unless my memory fails me describes Goblin and One-Eye as dark-skinned, Rowan Atkinson would work. And I’d vote for Danny Glover for One-Eye and Idris Elba for Silent, to complete the trio of wizards.
I actually recall as One-eye being dark skinned, and Goblin as more fair.
I have to say. I am excited by this prospect. I am just worried it will get messed up. These aren't all pretty or attractive people. Often when we get the little description for a character, they are pretty unremarkable or almost on the ugly side.
My worry is that the cast will not reflect this well. That will sort of ruin it for me. I will remain hopeful though that these gritty mercs won't be a bunch of Bros when the show hits.
If having Dushku play The Lady is the price we pay for getting it made -- and Dushku's own production company, after all, is the entity that has optioned the book series, so she kind of gets to go with that -- then I say it's cheap at the price.
(Those books came out decades ago, and no film/TV adaptation was made, that I'm aware of.)