Robert Jordan is renown in the fantasy novelist worlds for his super popular Wheel of Time series. Some even compare its epic scope to Lord of the Rings (all fantasy gets compared to LoTR eventually). Unfortunately Jordan died writing his final installment of the 12 book series which first was published in
Universal Pictures has acquired film rights to the late Robert Jordan’s best-selling “The Wheel of Time” novel series, reports Variety.Adaptations of the fantasy novels 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
My wife is a rabid fan of this series and I lost her completely one Christmas when she received his latest chapter (after the first 6 books, there was often 2-3 YEARS between installments) as a gift and wouldn’t put it down til it was done.
I wanted to share in my wife’s fascination with this fantasy writer but I just couldn’t stomach his writing style. Robert Jordan is SO long winded and over detailed he makes Tolkein look like Cliff notes.
I kid you not. I sat down with the first book of the series and counted out 14 pages of descriptive that basically narrowed down to “Two guys are traveling to this town in the woods. One of them thought he saw someone and decided he was wrong. Oh look, here we are” I wish I was exaggerating, but that is the extent of the story within the first 14 pages of the book. Sorry to spoil it for you. There are over 800 pages of story, so you can see why I gave up so early. I just couldn’t get into it. I read another 100 pgs before realizing it doesn’t get better. However, those who can live through this exhaustive technique of writing praise it.
Given the degree of nauseating detail Jordan offered in his books, the visuals should be pretty spot on. They have LOTS of source material to work with. As with any book translation I expect there to be changes and re-writes to adapt it to the big screen so I won’t be able to share in this complex fantasy world with my wife. She’s likely to spend the movie telling me what was different in the book and it will ruin it for both of us.
I am told the world Jordan crafted for his books is fantastic. Should make for a good story if they do it right.
