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Sanderson talking to the WoT movie people Werthead Send a noteboard - 18/11/2009 03:31:53 AM
According to Brandon's Facebook page, he spent some time today talking to people at Universal about the planned WHEEL OF TIME movie.

I wonder what that's about? My first guess is that now that TGS has hit #1 on the NYT bestseller list and displaced Dan Brown, Universal have suddenly smelt some green and decided to press on with the project. To this end they may be talking to Brandon about perhaps coming aboard as an advisor/consultant (I guess they're not going to ask him to actually write the script, due to his busy novel-writing schedule and lack of scriptwriting experience, which they'd probably want for a big-budget event movie).

I've been pretty vocal in the past that WoT will not work as a series of movies. It's just not physically possible to make a series of films long enough to satisfy all the fans by including even half of the major plot threads and characters from the books. At the same time, a TV adaptation (as favoured by Robert Jordan) would seem to be out as being far too expensive.

We know that HBO are pouring *a lot* of money into the GAME OF THRONES TV series and that's for a series with relatively few special effects in its first season (mostly scenery work, with only some very brief use of CGI creatures). Contrast that to EYE OF THE WORLD where they will be needing Trollocs, One Power effects, cityscapes, Shadar Logoth and other effects-intensive scenes right from the very start.

My guess is that we are going to get some sort of heavily edited version of the WoT as maybe a movie trilogy, probably with the Seanchan and Aes Sedai civil war storylines removed and focusing almost entirely on Rand. Which could still be interesting, but probably not the more faithful adaptation I think the fans really want.
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Sanderson talking to the WoT movie people - 18/11/2009 03:31:53 AM 1508 Views
I cringe a little when I think about it - 18/11/2009 04:41:49 AM 795 Views
Re: I cringe a little when I think about it - 18/11/2009 05:32:06 AM 714 Views
Its too large - 18/11/2009 05:36:26 AM 594 Views
This is so depressing! Theoretically, this would be a huge, awesome thing - 18/11/2009 06:05:07 AM 813 Views
This is why I think it will be only one movie (or perhaps three) - 18/11/2009 06:18:39 AM 762 Views
I would rather they made Raymond E. Feist's "Magician" - 18/11/2009 12:58:54 PM 563 Views
This would rock *NM* - 18/11/2009 02:19:09 PM 282 Views
yep that whole series rocks - 20/11/2009 06:00:36 PM 593 Views
Actually, I thought - 21/11/2009 02:31:36 PM 521 Views
hehe yep - 22/11/2009 03:32:51 PM 516 Views
I quit somewhere in the krondor books. I might have finished Assasins - 22/11/2009 04:40:34 PM 545 Views
i dont think ive read all the in betweens - 22/11/2009 10:38:51 PM 540 Views
the conrad stargard series would make a good movie series too *NM* - 20/11/2009 06:01:10 PM 303 Views
I used to look forward to a movie based on the books. - 18/11/2009 02:00:30 PM 646 Views
Mini-Series!!!! - 18/11/2009 10:46:07 PM 501 Views
I really hope they go with animation or CGI - 19/11/2009 12:15:47 AM 1197 Views
I agree - 21/11/2009 03:00:05 AM 541 Views
All the characters do too much thinking - 19/11/2009 12:20:58 AM 776 Views
I think we can safely enough cut those parts out. - 19/11/2009 03:15:44 PM 592 Views
what I've heard him say - 19/11/2009 11:14:20 PM 624 Views
Ha. I don't think that's a problem. - 20/11/2009 06:20:00 PM 524 Views
they'll screw it up - 20/11/2009 05:59:31 PM 690 Views
If they can make 8 Potter movies... - 21/11/2009 01:24:43 PM 534 Views
Re: If they can make 8 Potter movies... - 21/11/2009 01:52:58 PM 668 Views
That's certainly right... - 21/11/2009 02:17:30 PM 744 Views
they should wait - 21/11/2009 02:34:38 PM 491 Views
SoIaF is being made into a movie? - 21/11/2009 03:46:08 PM 629 Views
AFAIK, it's only an adapted HBO series (Game of Thrones) in production still *NM* - 21/11/2009 10:23:14 PM 599 Views
Ah! OK, Thanks - 21/11/2009 11:20:59 PM 535 Views
nothing to see here move along now *NM* - 21/11/2009 11:24:53 PM 260 Views
stupid triple posts!!!!@#$%^&)_ *NM* - 21/11/2009 11:27:06 PM 252 Views
Into a HBO series, which is better - 28/11/2009 03:17:41 AM 706 Views
Hopefully it will work out. Wizard of Earthsea certainly didn't - 28/11/2009 03:42:33 AM 586 Views

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