Universal Acquires Robert Jordan's WHEEL OF TIME

All i can say is about freaking time!!!!
This movie will be extremely great as long as they can follow the story, all the books are excellent.
Now if we can only get someone to acquire The Dark Tower everything will be even better.

This movie would suck big time the books are long winded and boaring.

OH gawd no! Even if it were possible to make something out of these overworded, drawn-out, over-extended series it would go just like the books: Start out really well (first 3 or so books) then go nowhere... Jordan dicked around and dragged this series out so long he died before he finished it... and even if he had lived another 10 years it would never had ended.

I just wet myself when I saw this article.
However, I'd rather see this become a TV series, preferrably HBO. But since it's Universal, I'd settle for it to show on NBC or the Sci-Fi channel if it got serious treatment like BSG or Stargate.
If it will truly be in film format, I will see it, but there's no doubt in my mind that the story will suffer.
@torvar: What do pigs with tusks have to do with this?
@irascible: Book 12 was to be the end of the series. RJ wasn't 2nd guessing it. He was going to make it the last book even if you needed a dolly to get it out of the bookstore.

Hands down the best fantasy series to date. Aside from Red Eagle Entertainment's blundering of graphic novels and other related merchandise, I'm worried that Universal just won't throw enough money at this project to execute it well.

Here's to hoping. And I totally agree with you monkeypie that WoT would work better as an HBO TV series than as a set of feature-length films. Take it the "A Song of Ice and Fire" route.

I tried reading this series once. But when I realized I was reading an entire chapter revolving around how the main characters should cross a river, I gave up. Life is too short for such long windedness.

I love the Wheel of Time Series. You say long-winded, I say beautifully detailed. Not everyone has the patience for descriptive writing. When I was young, I was impatient with Charles Dickens' descriptions of wallpaper. Now I appreciate it. The detail is what drew me in to WoT to start with. I was just reading out loud to my husband on a long car ride and realized that I actually felt like I was breathing in the sea air because of the way he was writing about it. I thought "Aahhh, finally, a fantasy writer for grown-ups."

As far as a film version goes, he does have a lot of detail to draw on. With Dickens, they use those details for the set and character and then make the story fast-paced and fun. But, who knows if they'll follow those details.. Will they have the budget or imagination or casting abilities to make the Aes Sedai look like something more than just a women in a pretty dresses? Will they catch the attitudes of the women, the subtle gender reversal attitudes that Jordan played with. In his world it was men who broke the world instead of a woman who ate the apple.

I'd rather see a TV series and let them just have fun with it. Nothing will ever top the books, but it would fun to see some One Power action on the screen.

It was bound to happen sooner or later. Of course, Universal hasn't green-lit anything yet; it's still only an option. It will probably sit in development hell right alongside the HBO adaptation of "A Song of Ice and Fire."

Even allowing that they can successfully adapt each book into a single film (well, book 10 could probably be a ten-minute coda at the end of the ninth film), I wonder if Universal would actually commit to producing the entire series. WB only has three films left in the Harry Potter franchise (until Rowling goes back to the well, that is... and she will), and Disney's Narnia films really aren't performing so well. With the exception of the Hobbit films, there doesn't seem to be a lot of continuing market presence for fantasy film adaptations.

And who the hell are they gonna get to script these things? A writer would have to have balls of solid brass to take on that inevitable tsunami of internet backlash.

Haven't heard it or read it but I will make the prediction that whatever they end up making will FLOP at the box office. Book it!
If it ain't Potter or Hobbits on film no one gives a shit.

Never heard of it.