Rafe Judkins on ‘The Wheel of Time’: ‘The connective tissue of high fantasy’
The Hindu
The showrunner of the series says fantasy books and television shows are able to tell the stories of interesting characters over a long period of time in an engaging manner
Rafe Judkins, showrunner of the high-fantasy series, The Wheel of Time, read and loved Robert Jordan’s books the show is based on. “I always believed it would be an incredible television series,” says Judkins over a video call from Prague where shooting for the second season is progressing. “It was only in the last few years after Game of Thrones came out that people could see the reason to spend the resources that are necessary to bring something like this to life.”
Characters are what draw people to high fantasy, according to the 38-year-old screenwriter. “You like to spend time with these people. You want to read about them and watch them because you want to know what happens next. That is one of the pieces of connective tissue between television and fantasy book series. Fantasy books and television shows are able to tell the stories of interesting characters over a long period of time in an engaging manner.”
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