Yes...But will it be better than Lord of the Rings?

[darkshadowsunite]

Title: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Log Line: A shunned author is magically transported to the Land, a mystical world where he discovers he is the incarnation of a great hero. The writer thinks it's all a dream. But he's the bearer of a magical talisman, and is enlisted to help save the Land from Saturn and his representatives.
Writer: John Orloff
Agent: CAA
Buyer: Revelstone Entertainment and the Mark Gordon Company
Price: n/a
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Logged: 12/17/04
More: To be adapted from Stephen Donaldson's "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" series -- six books. Mark Gordon Company's Mark Gordon and Revelstone's Peter Winther & Randy Simon will produce.

[refriedwhiskey]

I wonder if they'll keep the part where one of the first things he does upon arriving in the fantasy world is to rape a woman.

That kind of ruined the reading experience for me. :|

[OkeyDokey]

Yeah, and the part about the leprosy.

[hew]

....and is enlisted to help save the Land from Saturn and his representatives.

Their cars aren't that bad....

[Weeping Harlequin]

And the part where he fingered that unconscious gate-keeper. Eek!

[kahaokamoku]

Soungs like an adult version of the neverending story or pagemaster . . .

[vmf]

And didn't he fool around with his daughter in the sequels?

[vmf]

and is enlisted to help save the Land from Saturn and his representatives.

Wasn't the villain Lord Foul, or have they changed that already?

[hew]

Lord Foul? Did Donaldson graduate from the George Lucas School of Villian Naming? :lol

[A Pathetic Writer]

It's about time. I now have a new goal to focus my innate fanboyism on.

Forth Eorlingas!

Er...

Ranyhyn!