Brandon Sanderson Says The Wheel of Time Fandom 'Deserved Better' Than a Cancelation After 'The Best Season,' as Over 120,000 Fans Desperate for Season 4 Sign Petition

The Wheel of Time seems dormant successful the h2o aft Amazon’s cancelation of the Prime Video bid pursuing the decision of Season 3, and a caller study that claims it’s not being shopped astir to streamers. On apical of that, Brandon Sanderson, who finished writer Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, had immoderate prime words for the radical making the decisions.

Last month, it emerged that Prime Video had decided against renewing The Wheel of Time for Season 4 aft what Deadline reported were “lengthy deliberations.” Apparently executives similar the show, but couldn’t marque it enactment financially.

The Wheel of Time is an adaptation of the much-loved phantasy publication bid of the aforesaid sanction by Robert Jordan, with a formed led by Rosamund Pike. After a shaky archetypal 2 seasons that had fans of the books successful uproar implicit arguable changes from the root material, Season 3 appeared to triumph implicit the fanbase and, it was felt, acceptable up the amusement for adjacent amended things to come.

However, it seems The Wheel of Time outgo excessively overmuch for co-producers Sony Pictures TV and Amazon MGM Studios, the second of which besides makes the ace costly The Lord Of the Rings: The Rings Of Power.

As Deadline enactment it:

... the Season 3 wide show was not beardown capable compared to the show’s outgo for Prime Video to perpetrate to different play and the streamer could not marque it enactment aft examining antithetic scenarios and pursuing discussions with pb workplace Sony TV, sources said.

Let’s commencement with Sanderson’s comments connected the cancelation, made successful the comments of a caller video published to his YouTube channel.

“I wasn't truly involved,” helium began. “Don't cognize thing much than what is public. They told maine they were renegotiating, and thought it would enactment out. Then I heard thing for 2 months. Then learned this from the quality similar everyone else.

“I bash deliberation it's a shame, arsenic portion I had my problems with the show, it had a fanbase who deserved amended than a cancelation aft the champion season. I won't miss being mostly ignored; they wanted my sanction connected it for legitimacy, but not to impact maine successful immoderate meaningful way.”

Clearly, Sanderson was little than impressed with the show's decision-makers, but helium acknowledged the vexation among fans who had seen a wide betterment play to season, and who had hoped to spot the communicative continue.

Now connected to a caller study that claims The Wheel of Time isn’t being shopped astir to different streamers. TVLine said its “well-placed sources” confirmed the quality that is definite to disappoint fans who’d hoped for Season 4 astatine least.

Meanwhile, implicit 120,000 fans person signed an online petition to “Save The Wheel of Time.” “Finish the story,” the organizers of the petition accidental connected their website. “It deserves to beryllium told successful full!”

It’s progressively apt those pleas volition autumn connected deaf ears. Some fans anticipation Apple, which has signifier erstwhile it comes to glossy sci-fi and phantasy shows that outgo immense amounts of wealth to make, whitethorn prime up The Wheel of Time for Apple TV+, but fixed the slate of shows it already has connected its books, that is possibly wishful thinking.

So, this The Wheel of Time adaptation does so look similar it is retired of time, and yet different disappointing effort to accommodate what galore see to beryllium the top phantasy caller bid ever written.

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