The Name of the Wind- TV series

[Adam]

I'm in the process of reading Patrick Rothfuss' novel "The Name of the Wind," and I'm really enjoying it. One of my friends just informed me that they're planning on turning it and it's two sequels into a television series, Game of Thrones style. Now I'm really excited. What do you think of this? Do you think a show based off the Kingkiller trilogy could be good?

[Karen]

I think it would be fantastic, Adam as long as they don't drag it out too long. Kvoth is a child for a while in the story and if they dither too long in production the actor will outgrow the part. I think that has happened a little bit with Arya Stark. In any case, I am so looking forward to the third book in the King Killer Chronicles and a series if they do one.

[Marianne]

That's interesting. I think I had heard somewhere that P.R. had two more trilogies planned in this world after Kingkiller, so there will be plenty of material if he just keeps writing! I could see making a movie-length intro of Kvothe's childhood with his family and in Tarbean and really starting the serialization it when he gets to the University, at which point I think they could start fudging his age with an older teen or young-looking twenty-something. I think his school years could be stretched into two seasons easily. I've enjoyed the first two books, am anxiously looking forward to the third, and would probably watch a series.

[Charles]

Depends on who's doing it. If it's one of those dreadful SyFy channel adaptations, I'll probably skip it. Then again, I hardly watch any TV series any more, so it's likely I'll skip it anyway. :-)

[C.V.]

I don't see why they couldn't, although they will need very talented writers and director of photography/cinematography to convey much of what Kvoth relays to the book reader. Hope this happens for Patrick and for the fans.

[Andreas]

Im not convinced that the story of Kvothe will lend itself very well to a TV series but I will watch it to see and hope I am wrong.

The books are really clever with lots of clever storytelling going on. I just dont think that will translate well into TV where they often skip much of the detail in books. I fear too much of the soul of these books will get lost in translation.

[Ken]

I'm really incredulous of this as a TV show. I think it'll pan out like the Fable series of video games - in my opinion, terrible. It just doesn't work to flash forward and backward and so much of Pat's excellent vocabulary will be cut, for sure. I don't know if it could hold up without his way of describing details and characters' thoughts.