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For those of you that know the series, it's apparently being made into a full length feature film by Automatic Pictures. Frank Beddor himself is writing the script, so the movie and the book will probably not be as different from the book as some other movies. It'll probably use a lot of money in special effects, if the movie's CGI or live-action, with all the high tech things in the books. I, for one, anticipate it.

Edit: From Automatic Pictures' Company Profile:
What might seem to be missing from Automatic Pictures’ grand “LGW” scheme is a film, particularly in
light of the success Beddor enjoyed as producer of the 1998 critical and box-office hit “There’s
Something About Mary.” “I’m working on the scripts for ‘The Looking Glass Wars’ and ‘Hatter M,’
simultaneously since they sync up and interconnect to create a macro story. We’re also working on the
script for ‘Seeing Redd,’” Beddor reveals, adding: “The great thing is that the movies will be the cherry
on top of this cake, not the cake itself. In order to protect the story and my Alyss, I need to establish all
these other creative entities and make sure they are solid first. If you rush into the film, it’s very hard to
do it well. I’ve seen it happen: A terrible movie comes out and essentially kills the underlying property.
It’s critical that ‘The Looking Glass Wars’ be allowed to continue to develop organically, at its own pace.
I’m thinking very long term.”
Automatic Pictures will take its forward-looking approach to creative-property proliferation and
marketing – emphasizing the organic relation between parts and the whole – to the development of the
Monopoly movie, for which Beddor will also be creating a world. He has lent the methodology to a few
of his fellow authors as well, who joke that he should share his expertise in an infomercial.
“There is a real interest in taking what we’ve developed at Automatic and applying it to other creative
endeavors,” Beddor affirms. “But you can’t take a cookie-cutter approach to it. Not every genre lends
itself to this methodology. And with every tributary, it’s critical that the medium be appropriate for the
storyline. And you have to be constantly asking yourself how you can tell a story over multiple platforms
in a way that’s true to the original vision and feels authentic to the audience, who are increasingly
sophisticated and don’t appreciate having something shoved down their throats. The approach has to be
about the fans’ sense of discovery, about their taking ownership of the story. We’ve been very sensitive
to fan response, and it’s guided everything we’ve done, from telling the story of Hatter M to the way
we’re writing the films.”