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mberan42:
Universal has acquired the rights to produce the Wheel of Time movie. This doesn't mean that a movie will necessarily be made, mind you. This just means that the rights to making one have been acquired.

Personal thoughts: "They" could condense the series into three 3-hour movies. There are so many subplots, minor characters, etc. that just aren't worth mentioning, let alone filming. Hell, I'd say that 80% of Jordan's WoT novels are supercillious fluff ("Nynaeve tugged her braid and smoothed her skirt", three pages about wind blowing across the ocean, etc.) whereas the remaining 20% is actual plot. The first 3 books were great, the 4th was good, the 5th was ok, 6-9 were crap, 10 blew chunks, 11 was great.

(sorry i only show up on the forums to post random things like this)

Ikrik:
I tried getting into The Wheel of Time but honestly....I never could.  The movies sound....interesting.  I want to say that these movies will be good....but when I heard the news of an Eragon movie I thought it would be good too.  I'm sure that these movies could be pretty amazing as long as it doesn't try to mimic LoTR.

Boro_Bandito:
I wrote like 3 paragraphs on this, but then I looked back at what I wrote and realized it didn't make any sense... but movies= probably a bad idea, but if handled correctly (which would take a lot of chance, being a multi movie series on these books would cost hundreds of millions to make and producers can get edgy with that kind of cash) I can see it coming out well. God knows I've actually quite a bit of time thinking of ways that this movie could be made. And I think cutting down to three is a bit much, maybe like 5, I mean, you can't remove All of the subplots, that's part of what makes Hollywood style movies work.

Surgoshan:
Actually, one of the biggest problems I have with the WoT series is that there's just too much crap.  If you sweated out all the bullshit, it would become a much, much better story.  Seriously, if Jordan had had an editor with the balls to cut each book down to 400 pages and the series down to five books, it'd be an awesome read.  Instead it's 5000 pages of teen romance and 5000 pages of tiny subplots.

In short, cut the crap and the movies could be great.  The simplistic magic system is just dying for some good special effects.  The characters that rapidly become two-dimensional (rapidly for Jordan, that is, so by book five they're cardboard cut-outs) is good for summer/christmas action flicks.  The utterly simplistic cosmic battle between good and evil is just dying for a mass marketing program.

Think they'll do it in New Zealand?

Jackie Blue:
You could honestly film all the cool/relevant points in the entire series thus far and it would amount to roughly 2 hours of screen time.

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