The Wheel of Time origins movie announced with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier director

On top of the ongoing Amazon series, The Wheel of Time is getting a prequel movie captained by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's Kari Skogland and the plan is to build out an epic trilogy.

The exclusive news was shared by Deadline, who confirmed that BAFTA winner and Emmy nominee Kari Skogland will direct the live-action take on the renowned fantasy universe's Age of Legends. The screenplay comes from Thor, X-Men: First Class, and Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous scribe Zack Stentz. As it stands, this new adaptation of Robert Jordan's books will exist separately from the series co-produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon Studios.

It's not like continuity will be much of a problem, as the story is set several millennia before the timeline of the main books, charting the emergence of the Dark One and the tragic tales of the Forsaken – leaders "who fell victim to the Dark One's seduction." That sounds an awful lot like The Lord of the Rings' Second Age.

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