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First Season of SHOWTIME's "Kingkiller Chronicle" Script is Complete, Says Showrunner

Published Mon, 03 Jun 2019 11:05:35 -0500

by Mary Anne Butler

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Goodness, that didn't take the writer's room long to complete the first season of SHOWTIME's upcoming television adaptation of Patrick Rothfuss's "The Kingkiller Chronicle".

According to showrunner (and pilot writer) John Rogers, the season finale script of the series was completed last month. (Shout out to Winter Is Coming for alerting us!)

This is the day I put the season finale pages down and back out to the outline and track the emotional payoffs of the season-long themes LONGHAND. It's as if I need the physicality of the pen to break the "typing" mindset of plotting and dialogue and scenework.

— John Rogers (@jonrog1) May 23, 2019

I don't know how other writers do it, but I need to keep hopping up and down the scale as dialogue reveals a character moment and then I pop high to see how to bring it in tune to what we're doing emotionally. And if it's all of a piece, converging.

— John Rogers (@jonrog1) May 23, 2019

The most interesting thing gleaned from Roger's tweets has to be in his response here to a question about emotional payout.

"In other words: your medieval fantasy emotional payoff will actually be… good?"

In other words: your medieval fantasy emotional payoff will actually be… good?

— Merrill Barr (@MerrillBarr) May 23, 2019

First of all it's not medieval …

Hey everybody works differently. This is my jam.

— John Rogers (@jonrog1) May 23, 2019

Hmmm, not medieval you say?

As a refresher- the SHOWTIME series will be different than the upcoming Lionsgate film based on the same book series. This one will be more of a prequel, reportedly set a generation before The Name of The Wind, the first book. Two traveling musicians are set to be the main protagonists of the series, and we're super curious to see how music is incorporated.

We'll of course let you know what we hear about casting and such for the series, which touts Lin-Manuel Miranda as an executive producer.

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