geekposting Okay, haven't posted for a while; probably my three friends who were reading this have stopped checking it for updates by now. But this is huge news for a certain subset of geekdom.

They's making a Thomas Covenant movie.

Here's the link: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000739361

Now, okay. LOTR made shitloads of money and everyone wants a piece. Narnia is getting the full WETA treatment (and I should have posted about the little featurette that just came out about that). Pirates of the Caribbean is getting two sequels (and I should have posted about Chow Yun-Fat being cast in them). But Thomas Covenant? Lord Foul? The Land? Leprosy? Rape? A faithful adaptation would be about 79 hours long, with nothing happening between the first hour and the 78th. I love Stephen R. Donaldson's later stuff, but I recently went back and read the original two trilogies of Thomas Covenant and swore I would never pick them up again because they're so goddamn boring with not enough pay-off. When I heard he's now writing FOUR MORE books in this fucking series, I wanted to smack him upside the head.

Because Stephen R. Donaldson also wrote my favorite science fiction novels of all time. My favorite novels of all time. The Gap series kicks ass on just about every level, but is especially amazing in pacing and structure. I wouldn't want him to return to that series -- it's already complete. And it would make a MUCH better movie than fucking Thomas Covenant.  ¶ 9:10 AM