Hell, he picked up and finished the massive Wheel of Time series for Robert Jordan.

The Chinese adaptation by Tencent is available for free on YouTube. It does a generally good job. Episode 6 seems heavily censored, but it is otherwise a sensible adaptation of the original.

Netflix could have easily built on that and improve on it tremendously. There are parts in the Tencent adaptation that are plain bad (e.g., Evans).

However, if seems that they went on a different route. I hope that this “teaser” is not a faithful representation of the final product.