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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abe.ebA" data-source="post: 2982190" data-attributes="member: 32545">Also, Song of Ice and Fire would be much more difficult to translate into the miniseries format.  Sword of Truth novels are largely self-contained.  The later books have a continuing nemesis but each one deals with one major challenge being introduced and overcome.  The first book in particular was written specifically to stand alone.  Goodkind didn't know if he would get the opportunity to write more novels in that world, so he wrote the first one in a manner such that it could stand by itself or tie into a continuing series.  None of the Ice and Fire books could be made to stand alone without substantially altering the story.Wheel of Time has the same problem, though to a lesser extent.  You could do Eye of the World as a standalone and probably a couple of other ones.Another thing to consider is the cast.  Sword of Truth has, basically, two main characters.  There are a number of major supporting characters but I can only think of a handful who get any real character development and important screentime without the main characters.  Aside from the issues of casting all of the dozens of major and important supporting roles in Martin's books, it'd be pretty difficult to follow.  In the novels everyone is referred to by name, so once you memorize the names you're okay.  On screen there might be scenes with a dozen people interacting, some of whom haven't shown up in the past 3 hours of show.I dunno.  I'd rather see Game of Thrones or Eye of the World than Wizard's First Rule but I'll still watch it and be excited.  Maybe if it does well someone will be willing to invest in turning Martin or Jordan's series into full-length (rather than mini-) series.  That's probably the only way you could reasonably do it.  Both are far too long and involved for miniseries or movies.</blockquote>

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