After drip feeds of teases, Amazon’s nonetheless promising you’ll see its tackle Robert Jordan’s beloved fantasy epic The Wheel of Time someday this yr. But now, it’s now not the one live-action take within the works.

The Hollywood Reporter has phrase that Zack Stentz—who co-wrote each the primary Thor film in addition to Fox’s semi-franchise reboot, X-Men: First Class—has been tapped by Radar Pictures and Iwot Productions to pen Age of Legend, the primary of three deliberate motion pictures based mostly on the 14-book sequence.

Unlike Amazon Studio’s TV adaptation, Age of Legend as an alternative plans to behave as a prequel to the occasions of the novel saga, set hundreds of years earlier in Wheel of Times’ cyclical universe, in a utopian society the place a magical drive often called the “One Power” (the supply of all magic throughout the Wheel of Time’s world, harnessed by highly effective beings often called channellers) spurs humanity into a brand new age of enlightenment. But when an evil drive corrupts customers of the One Power, forcing them to unleash a world cataclysm in a match of insanity, a gaggle of girls comes beneath the banner of the White Tower—the house of the Aes Sedai, the one all-female group of highly effective channelers within the Westlands—to turn out to be the world’s final hope for survival.

“I’ve been a fan of Robert Jordan’s work for many years, and it is especially his allusions to the origins and backstory of The Wheel of Time that I have always found most intriguing. I’m excited to be bringing this era Robert Jordan conceptualized to life,” Stentz stated in a offered assertion. Although Age of Legend has but to be picked up by a studio, THR studies that the trilogy will “complement” the upcoming Sony/Amazon TV sequence, itself a extra direct adaptation of the occasions of the novels. We’ll convey you extra as we all know it however what do you consider extra Wheel of Time coming our method?

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