Hopefully, Universal will not even remotely ever think about the word Sweet in relation to the WOT project. Imagine the poster Adam. *Shudders*.

I'm with you for the rest. REE is being overly optimistic with all this.

I think the videogames will appear, but I still doubt the movies will. I don't think Universal will commit to a trilogy from the get go (let alone to the rest of the series), and personally I tend to think TEOTW movie would turn into a big disappointement at the BO for all sort of reasons. Coming after LOTR by Jackson, it would have a hard time finding its audience outside the WOT fandom, I bet. The most WOT has to offer is its scope, and that's what would have to be reduced massively on screen. Adapting the series as anything that can be called "faithful" beyond TDR would be a logistic nightmare. If you remove the scope to early WOT, you end up with what appears like a minor re hash of LOTR, nothing the general audience has not seen before.

Sooner or later, Universal will realize the series is ill-fitted for a big screen adaptation and heavy going even for a few high end mini-series. By the latest, they'll figure it out when they see the script (or synopsis) of TDR and realize it's not the big climactic ending fitting for a movie trilogy but just another episode that concludes not much and sets up the rest of the series. Before they commit to the EOTW's script, they'll want to get a more precise idea of what's coming next, and if the project is still ongoing then, it's when they'll start having misgivings about it. WoT's episodic soap-opera-ish nature could make it decent material for a regular Fantasy TV series of 4-5 seasons (and the technology would make such a show viable now, the size of the returning cast not so much), but I don't think this will ever happen. My prediction would be that Universal just won't give the go to the REE scripts ans shelve the project and won't renew the rights when they lapse.