One of the major networks, I forget which at the moment, purchased the first-refusal rights to any film version of _Eye_of_the_World_ a few years back with the supposed intent of developing a miniseries. I suspect that the reason that it has been indefinitely tabled is the same as the reason we're debating these books. If the man needs 800 pages to describe each 1/2 week henceforth, they will never have the opportunity to do anything with the story. I think they want to know that the story has an end of some kind before pouring ridiculous amounts of money into filming it.

I pray to the gods of film to never allow such a movie or miniseries be produced. I remember so many of Stephen King's books being turned into absolutely terrible movies. I read The Stand shortly before they began filming it. I could not believe that a TV miniseries could pull it off. The Stand was like just over 1000 pages (the version I read) and the miniseries took up 8 hours of time over 8 weeks. I realyl don't think they can pull it off with Jordan. Not even with the budget for LOTR. I have come to be protective of RJ's characters and would hate to have some actor put a face to characters I have been able to build in my sizable head. Animation could be interesting, but once again, it would require so much luck to work. I say, leave it alone, they're good books and there is no need to screw this situation up more by including producers/directors/actors etc. Oh, and they story isn't over and most audiences cannot handle movies without a wrapped up conclusion presented to them on a silver platter.

Hi. Sorry for chiming in late on this topic, but it actually is something I was discussing with some friends the other night.

With the success of the Harry Potter films and the acclaim that was given to Lord of the Rings (especially winning 'Best Picture' for RotK) I think we're going to see a lot of Hollywood Investors re-thinking their position and looking at "Fantasy" movies in a more favorable light.

I don't think they'd be able to do WoT proper justice though. Maybe as you mentioned, as animation... SciFi channel didn't do TOO bad a job with 'Dune' and 'Children of Dune' (I said they didn't do TOO bad a job, I didn't praise it as dead on accurate) maybe they could do justice. But there's an awful lot of detail to put into a movie...

I'm like some others. I'm afraid it's just far too detailed to be done right in tv/movie/cartoon format.