WoT Discussion

[Cloric the Cleric]

Update for Epiph...okay, currently halfway through the book...and it's a page turner...

*wants to post spoilers galore, but will just have to wait*

[Buck]

When I finished the epilogue last night I actually yelled out "OMFG!"

[epiph]

Wow. That's what I was doing after Rand and Nyn cleansed the Source. I had 3 of my girlfriends waiting for me to finish so we could go out, and I was literally jumping on the bed going "He cleansed the Source! He cleansed the Source!"

[Arianna]

you know you're a nerd when....

[Vivacia]

you know you're a nerd when....

You can quote chapter and page of your favorite WoT scenes.

[Amelia]

gee thanks RJ!

so yeah Im reading the book and so far....I LOVE IT!!! but then I love all of them ALL OF THEM!

**runs away from angry mob**

[jabbernaut]

From aintitcool.com...

Universal Pictures has acquired film rights to the late Robert Jordan's bestselling "The Wheel of Time" novel series in a seven-figure deal.

Adaptations of the fantasy tomes will begin with the first book in the cycle, "The Eye of the World."

Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon will produce for Red Eagle Entertainment, which published graphic novel adaptations of Jordan's books.

"The Wheel of Time" follows, among its dozens of characters, Rand al’Thor, the latest incarnation of a force for good called "The Dragon." Rand is born to fight an evil character called Shai’tan.

"Wheel of Time" books have sold 44 million copies worldwide and spawned computer, trading-card and role-playing games; a soundtrack; comicbooks; and numerous fan sites. The four most recent installments have reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

The property has been optioned before, notably in 2000, when NBC held the rights to make a miniseries based on "The Eye of the World."

Jordan died last year at 58, but the final book in the series is still set for publication in fall 2009, with fellow fantasy scribe Brandon Sanderson writing the novel’s conclusion from Jordan’s notes and tapes.

[Buck]

Ooo

So are we talking trilogy? Or will it turn into a big chain of NEXT TIME, on WoT! movies where the plot starts to slow to a snail's crawl by the 5th movie? It wouldn't do the books justice, haha.

I wonder who they will cast for the main cast? No names or some big names? Hmm

[Vivacia]

I'm in the middle of Fires of heaven right now. I don't think I want these books made into movies. My imagination has already filmed this series and I don't want it butchered.

Maybe if Peter Jackson were to do them...

Nah. Not even then.

[Amelia]

Im just going to wait and see. I would have prefered a mini series for each book, and dont know how a movie will be made, if it will even be made.

[Dregs]

....if it will even be made.

Exactly. It's sat on a shelf for nearly a decade. Its not as though interest is increasing in the series that would warrant splurging on a big film. Maybe a broadway show, but not a film.

[Eyreplenh]

Village Bumho presents Wheel of Time the Musical! Starring the ever glamorous Barbara Streisand as the fiersome Moiraine Damodred and revealing the great talent that is Keanu Reeves as he IS the Dragon Reborn! Dun dun duuuunnn!

[Dregs]

Wheel of Time...On ICE!

I mean, as in an ice skating show, not a performance while on some methamphetamine derivative. Though that might be entertaining, I'm not sure it'd be worth paying money for.

[Apoc]

Wheel of Time...On ICE!

Aww dude, that'd have been funnier for the aSoIaF series thread.

A song of fire on ice

[Dregs]

Cover art for aMoL.

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/michael-whelans-cover-for-a-memory-of-light-revealed