Book 12 of The Wheel of Time will be a trilogy

According to SFScope:

• Tor Books has announced that the final volume of Robert Jordan's massive Wheel of Time A Memory of Light will appear as a trilogy. Volume one of the three books making up the final volume will be titled The Gathering Storm, and will be published on 3 November 2009. The second and third volumes will appear over a two-year period.
• Harriet McDougal, Jordan's widow and editor, expanded on the announcement, saying "The scope and size of the novel was such that it could not be contained in a single volume.

Robert Jordan, was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. died September 16, 2007, leaving The Wheel of Time fantasy series unfinished. Book 12 was to be the final volume but Jordan died before he could complete much more than a rough.

Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time possible movie?

SF Scope writes that Universal has options the 12 volume Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. From the article:

• Variety reports that Universal Pictures bought the film rights to the late Robert Jordan's bestselling "The Wheel of Time" series in a seven-figure deal. Universal plans to do the books in order, starting with the first book, The Eye of the World.

This is a project that makes the Harry Potter series look like a walk in the park. Not only is it twice as long, but huge in scope! I have been following the series pretty religiously ( yeah I know, not really sci-fi, but I have a good excuse, I loathe buying books that are not read and these were just lying around unopened beckoning to me.... come..... read....come... could not resist) and it has the potential to be every bit as big as Lord of the Rings and Potter if done correctly but the problem being is something that bit Blade Runner and Dune badly. So much of the world is taken for granted that the reader already knows what is going on. What would kill this movie is constant narration, just as it did with the others. But one can hope. And of course we are all waiting for book 12 which Jordan never finished before his death. It had to be finished with the help of his notes....again...one hopes.

Wheel of Time author Robert Jordan Dies

According to Boing Boing and the Associated Press:

Robert Jordan, author of the monster bestselling fantasy series The Wheel of Time. Jordan had been suffering from a chronic illness for some years now, making it hard for him to finish new installments in the series -- he died with the books unfinished.

Jordan, whose real name was James Oliver Rigney Jr., died Sunday at the Medical University of South Carolina of complications from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy. The disease attacks the body's major organs; in Jordan's case, it caused the walls of his heart to thicken.

Jordan was 58