Comments on: Universal Acquires Robert Jordan’s ‘Wheel of Time’ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/14/universal-acquires-robert-jordan%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98wheel-of-time%e2%80%99/ Stuff by geeks, about geeks, for geeks. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:47:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Christopher http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/14/universal-acquires-robert-jordan%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98wheel-of-time%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-434854 Christopher Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:48:07 +0000 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/14/universal-acquires-robert-jordan%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98wheel-of-time%e2%80%99/#comment-434854 Everyone quick...tap that pedal to the left...yes the brakes. Everyone is going 0 to 90 on this with the negativity. First, yes the books are insanely long, but if you take out his description of the people or the places and actually put that to a visual...well youve just taken 400 pages and compressed it into 10 seconds of film. Second, raise your hand (notice that mine is up) if you feel the books and mr Jordans vision will be granted jusctice if you take out the side plots (i.e the seanchen plotting against each other, the seekers of truth) if you do that then youve just taken 12 books and put them into about 4 books. That I belive is reasonable to give the story justice, fullfill our expectations, maintain a decent budget and produce a kickass movie that would tower over LotR. Everyone quick…tap that pedal to the left…yes the brakes. Everyone is going 0 to 90 on this with the negativity. First, yes the books are insanely long, but if you take out his description of the people or the places and actually put that to a visual…well youve just taken 400 pages and compressed it into 10 seconds of film. Second, raise your hand (notice that mine is up) if you feel the books and mr Jordans vision will be granted jusctice if you take out the side plots (i.e the seanchen plotting against each other, the seekers of truth) if you do that then youve just taken 12 books and put them into about 4 books. That I belive is reasonable to give the story justice, fullfill our expectations, maintain a decent budget and produce a kickass movie that would tower over LotR.

]]> By: PTD http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/14/universal-acquires-robert-jordan%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98wheel-of-time%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-429800 PTD Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:56:02 +0000 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/14/universal-acquires-robert-jordan%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98wheel-of-time%e2%80%99/#comment-429800 Movies will not work for this series. The books are just too dang long, and there's no way they're going to make 13 or 10 or even 6 movies to cover the whole story. My hope? I always thought any kind of film adaptation would work best on HBO as a series. Movies will not work for this series. The books are just too dang long, and there’s no way they’re going to make 13 or 10 or even 6 movies to cover the whole story.

My hope? I always thought any kind of film adaptation would work best on HBO as a series.

]]> By: NeverWanderer http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/14/universal-acquires-robert-jordan%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98wheel-of-time%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-384591 NeverWanderer Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:46:55 +0000 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/14/universal-acquires-robert-jordan%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98wheel-of-time%e2%80%99/#comment-384591 I've always had difficulty with Jordan's saga. Sadly, it began and ended with a small sampler of the first third of The Eye of the World. I just could not bring myself to care for his characters. He wrote every female character like the same meddlesome, unreasonable, intolerable pain in the ass, whose only real purpose in the story was to disagree in the most obnoxious way possible... Which meant that when any of the male characters started showing any kind of romantic interest in these women, I was more inclined to smack him than root for him. (half my D&D group thinks I'm insane for feeling this way) BUT... I think that if a talented creative team were to take hold of these books and really try to make them more widely accessible (like Peter Jackson's team did for LOTR), that could have the result of not only fixing the problems in characterization, but honing the plot down to its essential elements! And, holy shit... I might actually get to find out what happens in the story! :D So, for the moment, I'm a bit more interested than discouraged. I’ve always had difficulty with Jordan’s saga. Sadly, it began and ended with a small sampler of the first third of The Eye of the World. I just could not bring myself to care for his characters. He wrote every female character like the same meddlesome, unreasonable, intolerable pain in the ass, whose only real purpose in the story was to disagree in the most obnoxious way possible…

Which meant that when any of the male characters started showing any kind of romantic interest in these women, I was more inclined to smack him than root for him.

(half my D&D group thinks I’m insane for feeling this way)

BUT… I think that if a talented creative team were to take hold of these books and really try to make them more widely accessible (like Peter Jackson’s team did for LOTR), that could have the result of not only fixing the problems in characterization, but honing the plot down to its essential elements!

And, holy shit… I might actually get to find out what happens in the story! :D

So, for the moment, I’m a bit more interested than discouraged.

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