[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Lunaryon

He cut some out, yes. Added things to it, but the fact is that from a screenwriter's point of view, what he did made the movie more watchable, and it wasn't TOO far away from the original.

Oh, you don't want to go there, Lunaryon, trust me. I could write a book on why I hate those movies. :p I'm not even a "purist", I think [blasphemy] the book could definitely be improved in places [/blasphemy] but Jackson's (or more appropriately, Boyens' and Walsh's) additions created massive plot holes and made pretty much all the characters into 2-dimensional caricatures.

But, I digress. This is not a LotR thread. (Someone go start one so I can rant for 10 pages. :p)

Thinking about the WoT as films, I'm not really sure how well the magic system is going to translate into the visual medium. I mean, it's pretty complex and there are a lot of explanations in the book about the various weaves and interactions between Saidar and Saidin. They're not going to be able to convey much of that, but it was a huge aspect of the books. It's one of the things I hear praised about the series the most often, how scientific the magic system is.

And the problem with cutting the filler is that such a hypothetical movie-plot is going to diverge massively from the book plot, since you'll be cutting out entire books worth of material in some cases (since some plots are just totally extraneous). That might cause a bit of an uproar with fans.

Something tells me though, if they decide to make it a film series, it will end up pretty far from the books, anyway. Which might not be a bad thing.