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Winter Dragon
2015 · Film · short · 22 min
Directed by James Seda
In this prologue to The Wheel of Time, hero-gone-mad Lews Therin is forced by his adversary to confront the deeds he has committed in his insanity.
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Similarly Wheel of Time had one... I had to dig deep and converse with an LLM to figure it out. I proposed to it "copyslop" as the term of art, it came back with "placeholder productions", "copyright keepers", and eventually there seems to be a "real" term-of-art called "ashcan" - https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/9jxvtb/til_an_ashcan_film_is_a_film_made_by_a_studio_for/
In any case: """Yes, you're likely thinking of the "Wheel of Time" pilot episode titled Winter Dragon, which aired in 2015. It was a low-budget production that was released with almost no promotion and aired in the middle of the night on FXX. The purpose of this release was widely believed to be an attempt by Red Eagle Entertainment to retain the rights to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, as their licensing agreement required them to produce something before a specific deadline."""
https://wheeloftime.fandom.com/wiki/Winter_Dragon
Is that a reference to the travesty of a wheel of time pilot episode? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4450372/