One The Wheel of Time Superfan Desperate for Season 4 Funded Their Own Times Square Billboard Takeover: 'I Could Have Spent This Money on My Amazon Subscription but They Canceled My Fave Show'

The Wheel of Time fans hopeless to prevention the amusement aft its Prime Video cancelation person taken their run to the adjacent level: billboards.

The Wheel of Time is an adaptation of the much-loved phantasy publication bid 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.

But past period 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 liked the show, but couldn’t marque it enactment financially.

Brandon Sanderson, who finished Jordan's The Wheel of Time publication series, has gone connected the grounds to connection his thoughts connected the cancelation, saying: “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.”

And showrunner Rafe Judkins insisted The Wheel of Time was watched “by immense numbers of radical each implicit the world,” pointing to viewership information to backmost up his claim. Judkins besides expressed a grade of anticipation that a rival streamer volition prime up The Wheel of Time, highlighting sci-fi amusement The Expanse, which was canceled by SYFY earlier Amazon saved it and finished the story.

All the while, a increasing instrumentality effort to prevention The Wheel of Time has picked up tens of thousands of signatures. At the clip of this article's publication, implicit 163,000 fans had 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!”

In bid to marque their voices heard, a Brazilian instrumentality radical crowdsourced their ain billboard successful Times Square successful New York City, which Judkins subsequently acknowledged connected societal media.

And 1 instrumentality independently funded their ain billboard clip with a connection that simply read: “I could person spent this wealth connected my Amazon subscription but they cancelled my fave amusement truthful present we are alternatively (AGAIN).

“Help prevention The Wheel of Time.”

The Wheel of Time fans are hopeless for a Season 4.

Speaking to IGN, 1 'SaveWOT' run organizer said the squad of volunteers planned to rent adjacent much billboard ads crossed the globe arsenic they instrumentality their combat to the adjacent level.

”Everyone is simply blown distant with the generosity shown by fans of The Wheel of Time!” they said. "To deed not one, but 3 fundraising targets truthful rapidly is unthinkable and it shows that determination is specified tendency to spot this fantastic amusement continue. This is simply a existent grassroots effort, with enactment pouring successful from astir the world.”

The organizers person said they’re treating Judkins’ words arsenic “a awesome that instrumentality unit tin prevention The Wheel of Time,” but it remains to beryllium seen if Sony Pictures Television, the cardinal stakeholder successful each this, takes notice. While immoderate fans anticipation Apple whitethorn prime up The Wheel of Time for Apple TV+, fixed the slate of costly sci-fi and phantasy shows it already has connected its books that is possibly wishful thinking. Indeed, TVLine precocious reported that The Wheel of Time wasn’t being shopped astir to different streamers.

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