![]() Nor, I repeat, was Bandersnatch, or Robert Jordan’s estate, informed of this in any way. I see no mention of Universal in the “pilot”. Rigney, was aware of this.īandersnatch has an existing contract with Universal Pictures that grants television rights to them until this Wednesday, February 11 – at which point these rights revert to Bandersnatch. No one associated with Bandersnatch Group, the successor-in-interest to James O. It was made without my knowledge or cooperation. A “pilot” for a Wheel of Time series, the “pilot” being called Winter Dragon, had appeared at 1:30 in the morning, East Coast time, on Fxx TV, a channel somewhere in the 700s (founded to concentrate on comedy, according to the Washington Post). Meanwhile, the late author’s wife Harriet McDougal, who is CEO of the Bandersnatch Group, the company that controls the sale of the rights for the Jordan Estate, released the following statement today: Lewis Therin returns home to his family after a 10-year war against an army of darkness he is greeted by an unexpected guest. Selvage went on to explain that the “Winter Dragon” episode was done with a high-budget production planned for the future, with announcements coming soon. ![]() ![]() It aired on the network in a paid spot - kind of like the way an infomerical does - purchased by Red Eagle Entertainment, the pilot’s producers who needed to get it on the air.Īs to why it needed to air now, io9 spoke with Red Eagle’s CEO Rick Selvage, who told them, with “a lot of other properties, there’s always an airdate that you need to air something by… and that was certainly part of it.” As io9 points out, this translates to them having to air some kind of product by a certain due date or lose the rights to that property, which is common stipulation in deals for obtaining rights to books, etc. It turns out, the pilot, which starred Billy Zane, is not an FXX series. With no promotions or warnings, viewers who caught the 30-minute pilot on FXX in the middle of the night were surprised that such a series existed and that it was debuting, including Robert Jordan’s Estate, which made a statement that the project was done without their knowledge or involvement. As a shock to nearly everyone, a pilot episode for Winter Dragon, a potential TV series based on the epic Wheel Of Time fantasy novels by the late Robert Jordan, aired on FXX in the early morning hours today and is now online (watch it here below).
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