The Wheel Of Time Headed To Television

After an extended rights battle, Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time novel series is once again cleared and in development for television. Jordan’s widow Harriet McDougal made the announcement on the Google+ fan page of The Wheel of Time.

“Update: Wanted to share with you exciting news about The Wheel of Time. Legal issues have been resolved. The Wheel of Time will become a cutting edge TV series! I couldn’t be more pleased. Look for the official announcement coming soon from a major studio —Harriet,” she wrote.

The statement, she said, was approved by the studio that now has the rights to the series. The Wheel of Time ran for 23 years and twelve novels, though the final one was split into three when Jordan died while working on it in 2007. He left extensive notes that writer Brandon Sanderson and the publisher decided would fit three volumes, The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight, and A Memory of Light.

The popular fantasy series features the titular Wheel of Time, a device that all of existence is tied to. It has Judeo-Christian style God and Devil characters locked in an epic power struggle, along with more traditional fantasy elements like magic users known as channelers, other artifacts of power, and various “ages” that the Wheel of Time explores.

No additional studio, channel, or timeline information were revealed, but as McDougal said, look for it coming soon.