Comments on: Universal Acquires Wheel of Time

By: Estebe

Estebe — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:04:49 +0000

robert jordan wrote his books for people with good imaginations. you may not enjoy his writing style, but for those of us who do reading the book is like watching a movie already.

By: John

John — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:51:34 +0000

They couldn’t find anyone who might actually look like Rand is described in the books?! Just finished “The Gathering Storm”, a phenomenal piece of work. I have to believe R. Jordan would be happy with Sanderson’s effort. I’d love to see Liam Neeson as Lan.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:21:25 +0000

I LOVE this series. I’ve read it 5 times, and am getting ready to read it again. I can’t get enough. However, I just can’t see them doing the story justice on the big screen. So much would have to be cut, that no one who hasn’t read the books would be able to follow the plot. I would especially hate to see it come to something like The Legend of the Seeker (the TV adaptation of Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series). That show bears only the vaguest resemblence to the books. I’m sure I’ll go see it anyway – I’m that addicted – and I’m sure that’s what they’re counting on from Jordan’s fans. But really, I wish they’d just leave it alone.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:20:55 +0000

I like the idea of an HBO series and yes Jordan is very long winded but that is how you create a world and if anything he has done that. I’ve read the series 3 times and I am working on my forth because of world he has created. When I read the books i can almost see the places he describes and I can invision the the entire world as a whole which i could not do with out his brilliant writing.

As for the movie, I believe that focusing on certain story lines for each movie would be the most logical way to go. “Eye of the World” focuses on mainly on Rand Al’thor but after that the story splits off into numerous story lines. Overall, I can see making six or seven movies focused on each storyline if done properly. This is not unheard of (Harry Potter) but if it boiled down to it this entire series could be down in three or four movies. The audience would lose alot of the descriptiveness of the world Jordan created but its not impossible. Hey, it worked for “Lord of the Rings”.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:49:03 +0000

@Supernetusuer, Talk to Alan Moore about a writer who’s dream it was to be adapted to the big screen.

I think you will find out that some writers are just happy being writers. Much of being adapted to film means that someone is hired to basically rewrite your work.

Most of the time that means raping your creative works for financial benefit.

By: Sherrie

Sherrie — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:28:30 +0000

I didn’t like the books for the same reason. Tho’ I managed to get through 2 books, I was slow, I kept on thinking I’d get some pay off, it took me 2 books realised the author was not actually going to reach any point. And also I grew to dislike some of the main characters, especially the main ‘chick’ in it, she was an idiot!

I’m much older and wiser now, I don’t let bad authors like that waste my time any more. But it’s certainly was educational to what and what doesn’t make good ‘story telling’.

By: Supernetuser

Supernetuser — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:58:12 +0000

As a writer, (who is stalled on her first novel AGAIN, LOL), all I can say is that its almost every writers dream to get the movie rights as well as the translation rights for any work you’ve got. I’m not familiar with this series, The Eye of the World, as much as I am with Cormic McArthur’s The Road, which I’m going to scrape together some cash to go see for sure. Believe me, the first thing you learn in writing school is that nauseating detail is good. Too little detail is bad because you pretty much can’t inspire the reader. Your wife sounds like a good reader, someone who knows what she wants in a novel. Most people define a good book as one they can’t put down. I was this way with The Road. It gave me nightmares but boy was it ever a good book. I have stalled also on a project I have about getting Memoirs of A Geisha and reading the book BEFORE I see the movie. I didn’t watch Earthsea – the movie, when it came out because I was committed to reading the book. Needless to say that didn’t happen. I still have the book in a box somewhere, waiting to be read.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:45:55 +0000

I really don’t know how they can make a movie out of this series. There are so many books and each is so long that you’d need friday the 13th-like sequels to manage to even brush against the point of the book.

There is also a lot of magic in the books. Hack and slash fantasy seems to film very well (not a lot of magic in LOTR) but when you start throwing in casting spells and warping differnt places etc, it starts to get a little hokey.

If they do manage to pull it off it will be because of all the double and triple crossing that he puts in his books. One of the most entertaining things is you can never trust ANYONE in the books.

By: Paul K

Paul K — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:57:50 +0000

Sooo excited about this. And I agree that his descriptiveness can get a bit taxing, but I thought the point of reading was to enjoy it, not to finish it as soon as possible. To adapt this into a movie (or series of movies) will involve a lot of cutting though, because in addition to the main characters (Another poster mentioned 18, which is a good approximation, depending on your definition of ‘main’, and whether you’re counting villains), there’s about 40-50 characters that play significant supporting roles that are pretty key to advancing the plot. It will be interesting to see how they deal with this.

By: miles

miles — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:20:41 +0000

MIKE G- they are doing that with a song of ice and fire which, IMO, is a far superior series.

By: Guzzi

Guzzi — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:35:09 +0000

I have read this series 3 times through, yes he gets long winded at times, but I have learned to accept that. I am very excited about the movies but I really doubt they will make a movie for each book, and there is too much there to do anything less, I agree that a SciFi or HBO series would be a better place for WOT.

By: Mike G

Mike G — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:19:24 +0000

Paul,

I agree with you. There is way to much material for it to be a film series. I always felt that HBO should pick it up and make a series about it. I think that they could stretch each book into a season.