Terry Goodkind, the author of the bestselling The Sword of Truth series, visited Comic-Con today with director Sam Raimi and those who produced the television shows Xena and Hercules. Together as a panel, they laid out their plans for adapting Wizard’s First Rule into a 22-episode season to air on ABC via Disney.
I will be posting a lot more news on this in the forthcoming days, but I wanted to share with Goodkind fans that the name of the ABC series is Legend of the Seeker and it will begin November 1, 2008. Richard Cypher and Kahlen have been cast, but today Sam Raimi announced the casting of Zedd. The actor playing the wizard Zedd is Bruce Spence, who had minor roles in LOTR: Return of the King and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith but who has decades of acting experience.
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Sweet. And 22-episodes strikes me as one heck of a run, for some reason. I think that this being presented with ABC/Disney is going to benefit the series as a whole. If you think about it, even though we typically associate Disney with children’s cartoons, they’ve been in the fantasy game for quite some time themselves (even more mainstream fair like Pushing Daisies is an episodic exercise in magical realism).
NO WAY!!!!!!!
I love love love this show and the book. This cast couldn’t be better!!!! i am hooked on the books and the show. will there ever be a book signing with the cast?