Someone just brought this up the other day and I thought I'd see if there was any news yet: In 2008 Universal bought the rights to make Wheel of Time into a series of movies. I was just curious if there was any news about this. IMDB doesn't have anything, and I couldn't turn anything up on Google. Anyone know what's going on?
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
Options to make movies from books are purchased over and over again (options have time limits on them, so if a movie maker doesn't make the movie in a certain amount of time, the author can sell the option to someone else).
Unless it's announced that a movie is "in production," I wouldn't pay much attention.
Posted by MAP (Member # 8631) on :
Wheel of Time movie? How is that even possible? I can see maybe a TV series, but I don't see how they can cram everything into a movie or even ten.
I just started the latest book in this series. I was hoping that Brandon Sanderson would pick up the pace a little, but it is as slow moving as the others so far. Eighty pages in and nothing has really happened.
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Posted by TrishaH24 (Member # 8673) on :
I have no clue how they'd make it a movie. But I was talking to a friend of mine and he's convinced they're working on it. I remember hearing that it was purchased, but I never heard anything else.
I stopped reading in the middle of book 7. I just couldn't take it anymore. I'm hoping my drive will pick back up one day and I'll finish the series, but not right now. As far as a movie would go, I'd see it, if for no other reason than to see exactly how they made it work. (I'm pretty sure they would HAVE to do installments.)
Posted by Meredith (Member # 8368) on :
I think it was book 9 when I gave up. I realized I didn't care any more. At some point, it would have been a relief for Rand to go crazy and destroy the world. At least it would be over.
I really don't see how they could possibly make a movie or even a series of movies a la Harry Potter out of this. There'd have to be a dozen movies with no real ending, nothing resolved. Who wants to see that?
Posted by guess (Member # 9085) on :
This is the 2nd time WoT has been optioned. Brandon Sanderson said on his blog that it is a 50/50 shot for a WoT movie. Alot of it probably depends on how good the script is.
Posted by rcorporon (Member # 2879) on :
I gave up on WoT somehere around book 7 or 8 and am going to wait until it's all said and done before picking it back up.