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Stalked: Wheel of Time series and The Russian Amphibian
Published 8/13/2008 at Filmstalker
... the big screens... Wheel of Time is the latest fantasy book series to be bought up and transferred to film. The late Robert Jordan's four very successful novels have been bought up for adaptation with the first called The Eye of the World. The books have sold forty-four million copies worldwide and has many offshoots already including computer games, trading cards, role playing games, soundtracks, comic books, and so on. A film seems the next natural progression. The story comes from Variety . One of the most popular Russian book and film ...

In the works: Willem Dafoe does "Antichrist."
Published 8/13/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
... ] Meanwhile, Universal Pictures, fishing for a new epic franchise, has acquired the rights to Robert Jordan's jillion-page "The Wheel of Time" fantasy series. Jordan passed away last year, but the 12th and final book in the series is still set for publication in 2009, with another author working to finish the novel using Jordan's notes. [Variety] ...

Universal Giving 'Wheel of Time' a Spin
Published 8/14/2008 by Eugene Novikov at Cinematical
... The series has been optioned several times, with an eye toward movies or television miniseries. Nothing ever came of it -- the books are so long, the plots so intricate, the cast of characters so enormous, that each attempt hit a logistical wall. Now, Universal has staked a claim, shelling out seven figures for the rights to the series. Logically, they plan to start with the first book, The Eye of the World. ...