Dan Simmons movie moves forward

According to the SCI FI Wire, Warner Brothers has picked Scott Derrickson (director of the recent The Day the Earth Stood Still remake) to direct the film adaptation of Dan Simmons's Hyperion series. I have no idea how the producers of this project are planning to condense two complex, zillion-page-long books into a single feature film, and their choice of director isn't filling my heart with confidence, but who knows? Maybe it'll all work out...

...but it probably won't.