It's November 2019, and the production-comprising hundreds of, and on some days nearly a thousand, people-is filming the end of the first episode of what everyone hopes will be a television show that runs for, well: six seasons? Eight? A show that will be as epic and sensational and ubiquitous as Game of Thrones once was. Michael McElhatton, who played Roose Bolton on Game of Thrones and is playing a character called Tam al'Thor on The Wheel of Time, sits on a stump in the middle of it all in a big down jacket, staring at nothing in particular. Rain has begun to come down in earnest, pooling in the muddy streets and making the extras and the stuntmen shiver. Rosamund Pike, who starred in Gone Girl, is smudged with soot. The actors who wander the Two Rivers are made up to match. Every house-interior and exterior-has been charred enough so that it shows on camera. There are holes in roofs, artfully destroyed beams. The town's inn, an intricately rendered two-story building, is now blackened, its left side plunged into spiky rubble: Smoke machines give the impression that it is still smoldering. Then, a few days back, the producers and set dressers of Amazon's The Wheel of Time burned it down. The Big Coffin Hunters come in and are chasing him through the square, but Roland sees Marten, so everything all collides in the end.Not long ago, this quarry, 40 kilometers outside Prague, held a carefully built fake town called the Two Rivers.
They actually dance to a Flogging Molly tune, which I love. They go into the square and as they're arguing, Roland explaining he's there to find and kill Marten, Susan grabs him and they dance. The ka-tet catches up and we have Cuthbert use the slingshot and he takes out one of the Big Coffin Hunters. He has the scene where the Big Coffin Hunters trip Sheemie and Roland gets into a classic western stand-off. He added, "Roland goes into Traveler's Rest. In the pilot it's the Feast of the Kissing Moon and she's being presented to the mayor and she meets Roland on the road." So (Roland) chases Marten across the desert and ended up in Hambry.
In the books, (Roland) gets his guns to kill Marten and then Marten sort of disappears from the narrative. "In this version he's chasing Marten because Marten was with Gabrielle (Roland's mother) and he's vowed his revenge. The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed," Mazzara revealed. "The story of the pilot is basically Roland in the desert.
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Speaking on the latest episode of The Kingcast, Mazzara was very open about the entire pilot episode that was shot (previously reported to feature Michael Rooker, Jerome Flynn, and Joana Ribeiro in its cast), confirming that the series would have started with a young version of Roland Deschain and worked its way toward the events of the first book "The Gunslinger." Official details on the pilot episode of the potential series were never confirmed by Amazon beforehand, but in a new tell-all interview series showrunner Glen Mazzara has unloaded a ton of information on what happened in the pilot and what was being planned for later in the series. At the time it was reported that Amazon felt the series "wasn't on the level" of their other larger genre programs that were in the pipeline, specifically Wheel Of Time and The Lord Of the Rings.
Earlier this year came devastating news for fans of Stephen King as Amazon announced they had passed on the produced pilot for their television adaptation of his opus, The Dark Tower.
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