From Scifi.com and apparently NOT an April Fool's joke of any sort.

The SCI FI Channel announced that it is developing an ambitious slate of original miniseries and movies, including several backdoor pilots for possible series. Anchored by its upcoming 20-hour epic miniseries Taken, from DreamWorks Television and Steven Spielberg, SCI FI said it will air four major movie or miniseries events a year, starting in 2003. A list of miniseries and movies follows.

(Mentions of other projects snipped)

•The Chronicles of Amber. Based on Roger Zelazny's best-selling 10-volume series, this four-hour miniseries tells the story of a royal family with amazing powers over time and space, which is plagued by in-fighting as it tries to unite against a sinister enemy. Richard Christian Matheson will write the screenplay. Tom Patricia of Patriarch Pictures will serve as executive producer.

Well...if the SCIFI channel can do a passable Dune (far better than the Lynch movie in my opinion), perhaps they can do Amber passably. In any event, its interesting news to say the least. So by 2004, perhaps, we will have a film version of the Eternal City. But how do you do five books in four hours?

I can see the Casting Thread rearing its head, AGAIN on the AML.

Still...we shall see what happens.