This is great news indeed. I've never directed or produced a movie, and I'm impressed at the number of my fellow HN'ers who have great insight into why this is

This is great news indeed. I've never directed or produced a movie, and I'm impressed at the number of my fellow HN'ers who have great insight into why this isn't the best book to turn into a film. For my own part I'm just thrilled that it may finally happen. If it's not up to scratch, it won't diminish the novel(s) for me. But if it's great, I'm going to be way pleased. Fair to say that anyone who's read and enjoyed a book (or series of books), and subsequently seen a TV or film interpretation of the work, will almost always commend others to read, then watch. (There may be exceptions - never heard of one myself.) Last year there was news of Amazon looking to develop series around Ringworld (maybe re-use some of the sets :) and Snowcrash. I really liked what they did with Man in the High Castle, so I'm feeling optimistic.