Let’s see how far this gets before it’s abandoned as a big waste of effort.
I’ve never read the books; they’re bestsellers, but an awful lot of people seem to think they comprise a big shit pizza.
ETA: I’m using “big shit pizza” as a literary metaphor.
Hey, you never know. Once you cut out all the character descriptions and unnecessary textual padding, the books are like a quarter of their actual length. 
This could be interesting, but I’m not real hopeful. Peter Jackson did the best job anyone could hope for on turning an epic series into watchable movies, and he was absolutely devoted to the task. If the people working on this aren’t committed, it’s very likely it could turn out to be drek.
My prediction: We’ll see one mediocre movie, and the profits won’t be enough to justify making The Great Hunt. LOTR worked because it’s incredibly well known. Wheel of Time doesn’t have that kind of popularity to ride.
Baldwin, essentially: The series started out promising, but Robert Jordan kept adding more and more plotlines and characters without resolving the ones he already had on the table. He would have kept the series going forever if the fans hadn’t raised a ruckus, with little resolution and thus little real happenings of consequence in most of the books. As it happens, the second half of the series is pretty much exactly that; a whole lot of text in which not much happens. Further, his wife was his editor, and so he didn’t get solid advice on trimming up his writing.
The first book is very good. The next few are pretty decent too, but they suck you into a downward spiral. As bad as the writing is, it still manages to be the kind of series you just can’t put down. I believe you can stop after the first book and be okay, but the rest are like crack, in both addictive and unhealthy qualities.
The first half of the series is pretty good, but even just doing that would be like a 50 hour movie. It’s not that the material is horrible (generally) it’s that it’s so long. There are what, 15,000 pages in the series so far?
If I had a nickle for every time a studio “acquired” the rights to something followed by the fans ran around screaming “They’re making a ______ movie!” and then the film never gets out of the talking about it stage I’d be able to fund my own Thundercats vs. Go-Bots movie. There’s about a 1% chance that this ever goes anywhere but I can see the reaction already albeit not in this thread…
Thundercats movie! I’ll give a dollar.
True enough, but WoT has the advantage of being a bestseller series, and fairly popular as fantasy series go. Right now fantasy epics are in, too, what with LOTR, Harry Potter, and Chronicles of Narnia all enjoying decent box office take. I’d say it has a decent chance, if the screenwriters can squeeze Eye of the World down to less than three hours.
I always thought it would make a good TV series. I’m sure they could squeeze about twenty seasons of one-hour episodes out of it …
Too right. It would have fit in perfectly in the Hercules and Xena era.
as a WoT geek I would be very interested in any attempt, but I am dubious about the convertability to film of these books. How would channeling be portrayed in visual media?
It would do better as a TV series. Well, at least, reading the books was a lot like watching Days of our Lives. I spent 6 books waiting for Rand to go insane and then I gave up.
CGI sparklies, like the Next Generation transporter effect. It’s what I’m afraid is going to happen, anyway.
It should be noted that I read the title of this thread and had a simultaneous sensation of great excitement and profound dread, like a black hole party in the pit of my stomach.
Terry Goodkind’s The Sword of Truth is currently being made by the Hercules and Xena team. For some reason renamed The Legend of the Seeker.
Considering how very much of it is loving descriptions of what people are wearing, I don’t think that length is as much an issue as other series where you don’t get a few thousand words per character on what they look like.
I find the prospect to be both exciting and nauseating.
Okay, I understand why you’d want to make a Thundercats movie. But Go-Bots? Seriously? I can only imagine doing so if I were a super-villain frustrated by multiple defeats at the hands of the Justice League who decides to take his revenge on the peoples of Earth by making the worst possible film.
Super-Friends. The Justice League is actually occasionally cool. It would be defeat by the Super-Friends (or, worse yet, Wendy & Marvin (or, even worse, Aquaman by himself)) to really embitter a supervillain enough to make a Go-Bots movie…
While the recent Justice League cartoon was cool far more than occasionally, the Superfriends had better theme music. Cite.
Well, yeah, but I’m going by actual comic book JL*.
Original line-up JLA with teenage civilian sidekick - not cool
Satellite Headquarters JLA - cool
Detroit Basement JLA - not cool
Resort Island JLI - cool, mostly due to Blue Beetle and Booster Gold
Moon Base JLA - cool as hell
Mainly because they were the first two stupid cartoons from the eighties I could think of. 